Lure of Dreams: Sigmund Freud and the Construction of Modernity Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Lure of Dreams: Sigmund Freud and the Construction of Modernity Book

In The Lure of Dreams, Ferguson shows how Freud's writing, particularly The Interpretation of Dreams, contribute to our understanding of the character of modernity. He argues that the tendency to view Freud's theories as a product of nineteenth century developments in biology and medicine miss what is most important and suggestive in his work. Instead, Ferguson discusses it in the context of Vienna's fin de siecle culture in which Freud wrote, with its breakdown of classical forms of rationalism in the sciences, the arts and in the broader context of the rehabilitation of dreams in late modernity.Read More

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  • 0415048362
  • 9780415048361
  • Harvie Ferguson
  • 18 April 1996
  • Routledge
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 264
  • 1
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