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Sex on the couch : what Freud still has to teach us about sex and gender / Richard Boothby.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.Description: x, 276 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0415974135 (hardcover)
  • 0415974143 (softcover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 155.3 22 BOO
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Contents:
Cover Page Half Title Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface Part I Basics 1 The Phallic Code of Neckwear Having to Stick Your Neck Out Tying the Knot Up Tight, Out 'a Sight The Ladies' Question: How Low Can You Go? Getting Beauty by the Throat Tie Die? Critical Refrains Matters of Theory Matters of Practice Matters of Prejudice 2 Drive you Crazy Whatever Turns You On Why You Are Not an Animal Baby, Oh Baby! What Only a Mother Could Love A Note about Analytic Interpretation Stick Shift Phallic Phantasy or Fantastic Fallacy? The Really Prickly Question The Prime Cut A Little Slice of Heaven 3 Why Sex Is Such a Touchy Subject How We Look to Martians Unknown to Ourselves Higher Love Who Needs an Ego Anyway? The Fictive Self and Its Objects Subversive Sexuality Sex and Intimacy … or Maybe Not Part II Genders 4 Love you Madly Through the Looking Glass Every One a Boy The Battle between the Sexes Adam and His Rib A Touchy Question 5 Love you to Death Love and Death The Riddle of Masculine Aggression She Loves to Be Beaten? Questions of Conscience Going Over to the Dark Side Anatomy Is(n't) Destiny Part III Histories 6 Inventing the Intimate Behind the Wall Greek Sex Right to Privacy Our Bodies, Our Selves Freud's Science of Intimacy Think Again 7 Oedipal Modernity Every Man a King Natural Science Protestantism The Enlightenment Capitalism Who Wears the Pants Symptoms of the Times Love Stories Pornographic Revolutions The Universal Brothel His and Hers 8 Empire of Fetishes From Sade to Sex Ed Victoria's Secret The Consolation of the Fetish Lonely Bliss Shop 'Til You Drop The Triumph of Sexiness Conclusion: The Freudian Prospect Endnotes Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Bibliography Index
Summary: At just the moment when many people are ready to throw Freud on to the ash-heap of intellectual history, Sex on the Couch rescues from Freud's theories a fascinating series of reflections on the nature of sexuality and gender. Richard Boothby presents here a fresh and engaging view of Freud. Sex on the Couch offers new insights into our concepts of masculinity and femininity, placing them in relation to Freud's theory of the Life and Death drives. Richard Boothby also engages feminist critiques of Freud, putting forward new and specific responses to questions that have shaped contemporary understanding of feminism and psychoanalysis. Boothby's Freud, far from being pass, is in possession of insights that enrich our understanding of modernity and its distinctive character. In a refreshingly readable style, Richard Boothby writes here not only for the scholarly reader but for the student and lay reader curious about Freud's theories and their use in contemporary world.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-262) and index.

Cover Page
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Part I Basics
1 The Phallic Code of Neckwear
Having to Stick Your Neck Out
Tying the Knot
Up Tight, Out 'a Sight
The Ladies' Question: How Low Can You Go?
Getting Beauty by the Throat
Tie Die?
Critical Refrains
Matters of Theory
Matters of Practice
Matters of Prejudice
2 Drive you Crazy
Whatever Turns You On
Why You Are Not an Animal
Baby, Oh Baby!
What Only a Mother Could Love
A Note about Analytic Interpretation
Stick Shift
Phallic Phantasy or Fantastic Fallacy?
The Really Prickly Question
The Prime Cut
A Little Slice of Heaven
3 Why Sex Is Such a Touchy Subject
How We Look to Martians
Unknown to Ourselves
Higher Love
Who Needs an Ego Anyway?
The Fictive Self and Its Objects
Subversive Sexuality
Sex and Intimacy … or Maybe Not
Part II Genders
4 Love you Madly
Through the Looking Glass
Every One a Boy
The Battle between the Sexes
Adam and His Rib
A Touchy Question
5 Love you to Death
Love and Death
The Riddle of Masculine Aggression
She Loves to Be Beaten?
Questions of Conscience
Going Over to the Dark Side
Anatomy Is(n't) Destiny
Part III Histories
6 Inventing the Intimate
Behind the Wall
Greek Sex
Right to Privacy
Our Bodies, Our Selves
Freud's Science of Intimacy
Think Again
7 Oedipal Modernity
Every Man a King
Natural Science
Protestantism
The Enlightenment
Capitalism
Who Wears the Pants
Symptoms of the Times
Love Stories
Pornographic Revolutions
The Universal Brothel
His and Hers
8 Empire of Fetishes
From Sade to Sex Ed
Victoria's Secret
The Consolation of the Fetish
Lonely Bliss
Shop 'Til You Drop
The Triumph of Sexiness
Conclusion: The Freudian Prospect
Endnotes
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Bibliography
Index

At just the moment when many people are ready to throw Freud on to the ash-heap of intellectual history, Sex on the Couch rescues from Freud's theories a fascinating series of reflections on the nature of sexuality and gender. Richard Boothby presents here a fresh and engaging view of Freud. Sex on the Couch offers new insights into our concepts of masculinity and femininity, placing them in relation to Freud's theory of the Life and Death drives. Richard Boothby also engages feminist critiques of Freud, putting forward new and specific responses to questions that have shaped contemporary understanding of feminism and psychoanalysis. Boothby's Freud, far from being pass, is in possession of insights that enrich our understanding of modernity and its distinctive character. In a refreshingly readable style, Richard Boothby writes here not only for the scholarly reader but for the student and lay reader curious about Freud's theories and their use in contemporary world.

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