This book places Freud’s theory of the reality principle in relation to both everyday experience and global issues of the 21st century and illustrates how it may be practically applied.
Using the concepts developed by Lacan to analyze the inner logic of Freud's thought, Samuels provides a bridge between Lacanian theory and traditional categories of psychoanalytic theory and practice.
This book sets out to clarify five key Freudian concepts (the pleasure principle, the primary processes, the unconscious, transference, and the reality principle) elaborated early on in Freud’s work but, it is argued, rarely understood—even by psychoanalysts themselves.
This book looks at the political aspects of comedy and how unconscious social and psychological factors within a cultural and historical context shape it.... Læs mere
One of my main arguments is that we need to move beyond national politics in order to provide global solutions to global problems. Since we often repress real signs of global progress, we experience the global present and the future in negative ways.
This book sets out to clarify five key Freudian concepts (the pleasure principle, the primary processes, the unconscious, transference, and the reality principle) elaborated early on in Freud’s work but, it is argued, rarely understood—even by psychoanalysts themselves.
This book posits that Generation X is the first to be defined by its relationship with entertainment. This relationship, the author argues, is... Læs mere
This book interrogates the notion that artificial intelligence may represent a threat to the world because it lacks both empathy and... Læs mere
This book argues that whenever we are talking about cancel culture, identity politics, political correctness, antisemitism, conspiracy theories, or the alt-Right, we are dealing with a culture war, which often pits two sides against each other in a split world of good and evil.