| Freud's Megalomania Contributor(s): Rosenfield, Israel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393321991 ISBN-13: 9780393321999 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2001 Annotation: What if Freud had left a final paper declaring that morality arises not from the guilt caused by Oedipal desires but, instead, from fear of the unchallengeable authority demonstrated in megalomania? CUNY history professor Rosenfield makes this the premise of his novel debut--and produces a wonderful, chewy, intellectual delight. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00020401 |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 5.05" W x 7.76" (0.28 lbs) 178 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Cultural Region - Central Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In an inventive blending of comic energy and intellectual muscle (The New Yorker), Israel Rosenfield serves up for our scrutiny and sheer delight Freud's long-lost last manuscript, which reveals a Freud who in reflecting upon his life's work realizes that he has gotten it all wrong! A victim of his own self-delusion, Freud goes about setting the record straight with a preposterously seductive new theory of human behavior: it is not drives that motivate us, but rather our boundless capacity to deceive ourselves. Such are the explosive contents of his last manuscript, Megalomania. Its discovery years later prompts a postmortem that effectively puts the icon to rest, resurrects the man, and exposes the naiveté of Freud's disciples and the megalomaniacal tendencies of his detractors. This wise and witty (Boston Sunday Globe) intellectual spoof delivers a surprising twist on history and a playful challenge to today's enduring Freud debate. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rosenfield, Israel: - Israel Rosenfield, author of a number of nonfiction books, writes frequently for the New York Review of Books and teaches history at the City University of New York. |
