Killing Freud Twentieth Century Culture and the Death of Psychoanalysis

Killing Freud takes the reader on a journey through the 20th century, tracing the work and influence of one of its greatest icons, Sigmund Freud. A devastating critique, the book ranges across the strange case of Anna O, the hysteria of Josef Breuer, the love of dogs, the Freud industry, the role of gossip and fiction, bad manners, pop psychology and French philosophy, figure skating on thin ice, and contemporary therapy culture. A map to the Freudian minefield and a masterful negotiation of high theory and low culture, Killing Freud is a witty and fearless revaluation of psychoanalysis and its real place in 20th century history. It will appeal to anyone curious about the life of the mind after the death of Freud.

Introduction The Deaths of Sigmund FreudA Note on Bad MannersPart I: Suggestion & Fraud in the Age of Critical Freud Studies1. The Strange Case of "Anna O.": An Overview of the 'Revisionist' Assessment2. Rhetoric, Representation, and the Hysterical Josef Breuer3. Critical Readers of Freud Unite: A New Era for Freud StudiesPart II. Selected Memories of Psychoanalysis: History, Theory, Politics4. Freud and His Followers, Or How Psychoanalysis Brings Out the Worst in Everyone5. Gossip, Fiction, and the History of the History of Psychoanalysis: An Open Letter6. Jacques What's-His-Name: Death, Memory, and Archival Sickness7. The Politics of Representing Freud: A Short Account of a Media War, 8. This Time With Feeling9. Funny Business: The Cartoon Seminar of Jacques Lacan10. Going to the Dogs, Or My Life as a Psychoanalyst, By David BeddowPart III: Analysts at Play, Working11. Psychoanalysis On Thin Ice: Jones and Figure Skating12. Psychoanalysis, Doggie StylePart IV: Last Words13. Psychoanalysis, Parasites, and the "Culture of Banality"14. The Futures of PsychoanalysisNotesIndex