The Other Freud

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Acknowledgments; Introduction: tensions in Freud, extensions in Lacan and Trauma, Oedipus complex, and the exigencies of subjective Formation; Traumatic experience and psychical reality; Oedipal dynamics and entry into the symbolic 2 Religion, ethics, and acculturation; Freud's critique of religion and the latent issue of ethical Transformation; Lacan and the problem of modalities of subjectivity 3 Displacement, supplementarity, and symbolic meaning in Totem and Taboo; The myth of origins and the problem of origination; Omnipotence of thoughts and cultural reality; The sacrifice: from the real to the symbolic; 4 Moses and Monotheism: the trauma of symbolization; More originary hypotheses; Textual and psychological vicissitudes; Trauma and the return of the repressed; 5 Moses and Monotheism: the psychodynamics of Geistigkeit; The great man and the symbolic order; The realm of Geist; Drive renunciation and subjective transformation 6 Psycho-cultural inquiry from Freud to Kristeva; Issues of critique and transformation; Displacing the ego and opening to the Other; The unconscious structured like a language; Kristeva on melancholia, art, and religion; Concluding Remarks