Killing Freud 20th Century Culture and the Death of Psychoanalysis [Paperback]

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.
Its erudition offers sure-fire caviar. -The Independent, U.K.
A flamboyant and hilarious satire of one of our most revered cultural institutions, Killing Freud combines impeccable
and truly original scholarship with great wit. -Ikkel Borch-Jacobsen, author of The Freudian Subject and
Remembering Anna O

IntroductionThe 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 FigurlS_