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Freud's Memory

Psychoanalysis, Mourning and the Foreign Body

Palgrave Macmillan

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Part of the book series: Language, Discourse, Society (LDS)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
  2. Figures of Freudian Theory

    • Rob White
    Pages 9-36
  3. Others’ Memories

    • Rob White
    Pages 37-65
  4. Mourning as Ethics and Argument

    • Rob White
    Pages 66-91
  5. Across Limits

    • Rob White
    Pages 92-119
  6. The Foreign Bodies of Psychoanalysis

    • Rob White
    Pages 120-145
  7. Conclusion: Freud’s Secret

    • Rob White
    Pages 146-155
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 156-183

About this book

Rob White reconsiders Freud's controversial theory of inherited memory, referring it both to Anglo-American commentary and post-structuralist work on psychoanalysis. White proposes that this theory is evidence of an underlying haunted retrospection in Freudian theorizing, which time and again discovers that meaning has been lost.

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'White exposes the complexity and "unfinishability" of Freud's project. His scrupulously argued and lucidly written book discusses Freud without the aid of psychoanalytic language. Hence it refreshingly discloses, with great astuteness and sensitivity, just how strange a writer and thinker Freud is. It can be enthusiastically recommended.' Journal of European Studies

About the author

ROB WHITE is Editor of Film Quarterly and an independent researcher. He has published essays on psychoanalytic theory in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, Journal of European Studies and Oxford Literary Review.

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