Sigmund Freud

Egos and ids, Oedipus complexes and Freudian slips: we cannot escape the influence of Sigmund Freud not only in literary studies but in the way we think about our lives. Pamela Thurschwell takes a fresh look at the work of this groundbreaking theorist, offering students a clear introduction to Freud's importance for psychoanalytic literary criticism, while tracing the scientific and cultural contexts from which he emerged. This book guides readers through Freud's terminology and key ideas, then concludes with a detailed bibliography of his own and other relevant texts. Every literature student should read Freud, no literature student should read Freud without this guidebook alongside.Thurschwell, Pamela is the author of 'Sigmund Freud', published 2000 under ISBN 9780415215213 and ISBN 0415215218.