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The Legend of Freud
Expanded Edition
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by Samuel Weber
Stanford University Press
Due/Published
June 2000, 180 pages,
paper
ISBN
0804731217
Several months late, but here is the expanded edition of The Legend of Freud. As far as I can tell the new material is an introductory essay called "Uncanny Thinking" in which Weber moves from Freud's "The Sandman" and ends up with Heidegger's reading of Sophocles's Antigone as presented at the end of An Introduction to Metaphysics. So, especially if you missed it the first time, here it is, the book where Weber shows why psychoanalysis has remained uncanny, not just for its enemies but for its advocates and practitioners--and why it continues to fascinate us. For Weber, 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 read: deciphered, interpreted, rewritten. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Contents Preface Uncanny Thinking Part 1. Psychoanalysis Set Apart
Going My Way
A Problem of Narcissims
Observations, Description, Figuative Language
Metapsychology Set Apart Part 2. The Other Part
The Meaning of the Thallus
The Joke: Child's Play
The Shaggy Dog Part 3. Love Stories
The Analyst's Desire: Speculation in Play
The Fort!
Speculation: The Way to Utter Difference The Sideshow, or: Remarks on a Canny Moment Notes
Index "The Legend of Freud 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 Auseinandersetzung, 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. The Legend of Freud is the best deconstructive work IÕve 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."--Village Voice Literary Supplement |
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