... Lecture 16, “Psychoanalysis and Freud,” begins with a brief overview of Sigmund Freud and the history of psychoanalysis, followed by his often revolutionary contributions to the theories of subjectivity and psychic life, sexuality, repression and the Unconscious, interpretation of dreamwork...

... French philosopher Sarah Kofman examines the role that photography played in Sigmund Freud’s theoretical elaboration of the human psyche. In this excerpt from her book Camera Obscura: Of Ideology , first published in French in 1973, Kofman tracks the ways Freud explicitly and repeatedly used...

... This entry considers students’ disregard for psychoanalytic theorists Freud and Lacan as well as their belief in free will and self-expression. First, the students rightly rejected what they perceived as claims to universalism in Freud and Lacan’s writings, given that its precepts are so...

... sight, Viennese erotic photography and cinema were pertinent to the culture in which Freudian psychoanalysis originated and developed. Protagonists in the early history of psychoanalysis such as Sigmund Freud, Josef Breuer, and Bertha Pappenheim (“Anna O.”) are discussed here with relation to the erotic...

...Neither Freud nor Foucault? ...

... This chapter examines one exemplary instance of the optical unconscious that lies latent in Freud’s interpretation of the “R is my uncle dream” as recounted in his Interpretation of Dreams . Drawing on the work of Freud, Benjamin, Gilman, Schmitt, and others, Fardy discusses how the dream...