Freud, Psychoanalysis and Symbolism [Paperback]

Agnes Petocz uncovers a theory of symbolism based on investigation of the development of Freud's ideas throughout works.Freud, Psychoanalysis and Symbolism brings the topic of symbolism back into psychology. It offers a new theory, derived from Freud, and argued to be better than all other existing accounts. In the first systematic investigation of the development of Freud's treatment of symbolism throughout his published works, Agnes Petocz uncovers a broad theory of symbolism which is far superior to the widely accepted 'official' Freudian view. She also reverses the usual approach to symbolism, by asking first what are the basic requirements which any general theory of symbolism must meet.Freud, Psychoanalysis and Symbolism brings the topic of symbolism back into psychology. It offers a new theory, derived from Freud, and argued to be better than all other existing accounts. In the first systematic investigation of the development of Freud's treatment of symbolism throughout his published works, Agnes Petocz uncovers a broad theory of symbolism which is far superior to the widely accepted 'official' Freudian view. She also reverses the usual approach to symbolism, by asking first what are the basic requirements which any general theory of symbolism must meet.Freud, Psychoanalysis and Symbolism offers an innovative general theory of symbolism, derived from Freud's psychoanalytic theory and relocated within mainstream scientific psychology. This is a systematic investigation of the development of Freud's treatment of symbolism throughout his published works, and it discovers in those writings a broad theory that is far superior to the narrow but widely accepted official view. Agnes Petocz argues that the treatment of symbolism must begin with the identification and clarification of a set of logical constraints and psychological requirements that any general theory of symbolism must respect, and that these requirements have been neglected. Her newly proposed Freul�