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Speaking the Unspeakable

This rereading of Freud's cultural texts uncovers an undeveloped counterthesis, one that repeatedly interupts or subverts his well known Oedipal maserplot. The counterthesis is evident in three clusters of themes within Freud's work.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 208 pages

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