Includes bibliographical references and index.

Notes on Contributors --  Introduction --    Dustin J. Byrd and Seyed Javad Miri -- Part 1 -- Reviving Freud -- 1 Exhuming the Freudian Corpus: On Freud as a Social and Cultural Theorist --    Howard L. Kaye -- Part 2 -- Freud and the Frankfurt School -- 2 Freud's Psychology of Religion: The Frankfurt School, Determinate Negation, and Return to Religion --    Dustin J. Byrd -- 3 Adorno, Freud, and the Dialectic of the Individual and the Social --    Gregory Joseph Menillo -- 4 Marx and Freud, Horkheimer and Adorno: Beyond the Historical Gender Struggle --    Rudolf J. Siebert -- Part 3 -- Freud and Religion -- 5 Critical Social Theory and Religion: Revisiting Sigmund Freud's Discourse on Religion --    Seyed Javad Miri -- 6 Black Power's Deification of the Son: A Freudian Reading of the Reverse Oedipal Relationship between Malcolm x and Elijah Muhammad --    Jimmy Butts -- Part 4 -- Freud and the Political -- 7 Freud's Mass Psychology Today: Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Populism in the Age of Post-truth --    Yannis Stavrakakis -- 8 Freud, Marx, and the Structure of Freedom --    Michael J. Thompson -- 9 How to Conceive of the Unconscious and its Political Significance --    Fabio Molinari -- Part 5 -- Freud, Morality, and the Death Drive -- 10 Beyond the Death-Drive: Psychoanalysis and Social Critique --    Delia Popa and Iaan Reynolds -- 11 "I Know Very Well, but Nevertheless": Moral Immaturity of the 21st Century Humanitarian Witness --    Mlado Ivanovic -- 12 Freud and the Problem of Moral Agency --    Alfred I. Tauber -- 13 "No One Believes in His Own Death." On More and Less Necessary Illusions --    Ulrike Kistner -- 14 Killing in the Name of the Father: Freud and René Girard on the Question of Desire --    Clint Jones -- Part 6 -- Freud, Neo-freudians, and Beyond -- 15 Psychoanalysis and the American Intellectual --    Eli Zaretsky -- 16 A Freudian Analysis of the Competing Groups on Uncorroborated Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse --    Michael Naughton.

Sigmund Freud's work has influenced the modern world in many profound ways. The "father of psychoanalysis," Freud wrote numerous works wherein his psychoanalytic perspectives were applied to history, society, religion, and other cultural phenomenon. By expanding his psychoanalytic theories into these realms, Freud insured his place within the disciplines of philosophy, sociology, history, theology, and religious studies, wherein his works are still studied. More specifically, his psychoanalytic theories were adopted, revised, and expanded upon by philosophers and sociologists, such as Theodor W. Adorno, Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, Jürgen Habermas, Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, Gilles Deleuze, Judith Butler, Slavoj Žižek, and many others, who in some cases radicalized the latent political content within Freud's thought, using it to critique modern industrialized capitalism and theorize about the possibility for alternative forms of societies more conducive towards mental health. Although Freud is often marginalized, or even denigrated, we think there are still elements within the corpus of Freud's work that are valuable for both diagnosing social problems and addressing such problems psychoanalytically. The book demonstrates the lasting relevancy of Freud's thought to a variety of disciplines, as they diagnose a myriad of social issues.

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