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How culture runs the brain : a Freudian view of collective syndromes /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harris, Jay Evans (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2017]
Series:Dialog-on-Freud series.
Subjects:
Freud, Sigmund, > 1856-1939.
Psychoanalysis and culture.
Fantasy.
Psychoanalysis.
Table of Contents:
  • Contemporary cultural syndromes
  • The cultural regulation of identity
  • The Freudian brain
  • How mind enters trauma
  • From Gilgamesh : the oldest culture we know
  • Darwin through Freud's eyes
  • From the primal horde to the primal scene
  • Freud's self-specimen
  • Freud as Goethe
  • Modernism and cultural disciplines
  • Gender and surrender: lessons in ego identity
  • Freud's ambivalence about America
  • The pretense of cultural leaders
  • The evolution of fantasy
  • Syndromes of restitution and retribution : the Tsarnaev case
  • Conclusion
  • References.