Understanding Freud - Paperback

by Hervé Castanet (Author), Yves Rouvière (Illustrator)

Freud's name is inseparable from his discovery of the unconscious and the consequences he drew from it: psychoanalysis.

This book takes up the issues raised by Freud with force and clarity, and sheds light on the crucial points. It shows how psychoanalysis' assault on humanity's self-esteem is still relevant today. To understand Freud is to enter the stage of otherness: we are not our only brain, nor our only body, nor our only family... Our specificity is to be subjects who speak, subject to the language that desire liberates.