The Freudian Slip (new ed.) Postponed

Psychoanalysis and Textual Criticism

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by Sebastiano Timpanaro,

Introduction by PERRY ANDERSON,

Translated by Kate Soper

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Due/Published June 2005, 480 pages, paper

ISBN 1859844901

This edition has been postponed by the publisher.

Republished now with a new introductory essay by Perry Anderson— Timpanaro's The Freudian Slip submits the whole field of psychoanalysis to one of its most sustained and serious Marxist critiques.

Using textual criticism, Timpanaro reconsiders the most famous cases of the 'slips' analysed by Freud in The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, and argues that in virtually every case Freud's explanations of them are arbitrary or unnecessary. His book ends with an interpretation of the cultural and historical destiny of Freud's work within early twentieth-century thought.This new edition of Timpanaro's study also includes his essay "Freud's Roman Phobia," originally published in New Left Review.