Freud's Paranoid Quest : : Psychoanalysis and Modern Suspicion / / John C. Farrell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Farrell, John C.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Freud's Paranoid Quest is an exceptionally broad-ranging and well-written book.Whether or not one agrees with certain of his arguments and assessments, one must acknowledge the remarkable intelligence that is displayed on nearly every page.--Louis Sassauthor of Madness and Modernism and The Paradoxes of Delusion John Farrell's Freud's Paranoid Quest is the most trenchant, exhilarating and illuminating book I have encountered in many years. [The book] should be pondered not just by all students of Freud's thought but by everyone who senses that 'advanced modernity' has by now outstayed its welcome.--Frederick CrewsUniversity of California, Berkeley In Freud's Paranoid Quest, John Farrell analyzes the personality and thought of Sigmund Freud in order to give insight into modernity's paranoid character and into the true nature of Freudian psychoanalysis. John Farrell's Freud is not the path-breaking psychologist he claimed to be, but the fashioner and prisoner of a total system of suspicion. The most gifted of paranoids, Freud deployed this system as a self-heroizing myth and a compelling historical ideology.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE. From Primal Father to Paranoid -- TWO. Paranoid Logic -- THREE. Paranoid Psychology -- FOUR. Before Freud -- FIVE. Freudian Satire -- SIX. Freud as Quixote -- SEVEN. The Charismatic Paranoid -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index