Beschreibung:
"With this nimble volume, Samuels emerges as a peerless Freudian life coach. Without ever abandoning Freud's own belief in the value of science, and engaging with key contemporary advocates of the enlightenment doctrine, he articulates the so desperately needed, poetic wisdom for our times. This is a book to be read and re-read, ad infinitum."
1. Introduction: The Science of Everyday Life.- 2. Science and the Reality Principle.- 3. The Pleasure Principle and the Death Drive.- 4. The Unconscious and Primary Processes.- 5. Transference and Narcissism.- 6. The Resistances to Psychoanalysis and Global Progress.- 7. Progress and Its Discontents.