{"product_id":"the-legend-of-freud-9780804731218","title":"The Legend of Freud","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Psychoanalysis is dead!\" Again and again this obituary is pronounced, with ever-increasing conviction in newspapers and scholarly journals alike. But the ghost of Freud and his thought continues to haunt those who would seal the grave. \u003ci\u003eThe Legend of Freud\u003c\/i\u003e shows why psychoanalysis has remained \u003ci\u003euncanny,\u003c\/i\u003e not just for its enemies but for its advocates and practitioners as well—and why it continues to fascinate us. For psychoanalysis is not just a theory of psychic conflict: it is a thought in conflict with itself. Often violent, the conflicts of psychoanalysis are most productive where they remain unresolved, thus producing a text that must be \u003ci\u003eread:\u003c\/i\u003e deciphered, interpreted, rewritten. Psychoanalysis: \u003ci\u003elegenda est.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReview\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Legend of Freud\u003c\/i\u003e is a fine example of what can be done with Freud's texts when philosophical and literary approaches converge, and you leave the couch in the other room. . . . Like Lacan and Derrida, Weber doesn't so much explain or interpret Freud as engage him, performing what Freud would have called an \u003ci\u003eAuseinandersetzung,\u003c\/i\u003e a discussion or argument that's also a taking apart, a deconstruction. . . . Deconstruction has picked up a bad name, especially in the minds of those who don't understand it; but this wouldn't be the case if there were more books like Weber's. \u003ci\u003eThe Legend of Freud\u003c\/i\u003e is the best deconstructive work I've seen lately, and the best response to Freud; it merits close attention from anyone who wants a challenge, not merely a guide to what's right and wrong. . . . Weber is brilliantly imaginative, respectful of his subject and his readers, and productive of new ideas.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e—\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Samuel Weber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48297276014843,"sku":"9780804731218","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9780804731218.jpg?v=1772482407","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-legend-of-freud-9780804731218","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}