Killing Freud

Killing Freud takes the reader on a journey through the 20th century, tracing the work and influence of one of its
greatest icons, Sigmund Freud. A devastating critique, the book ranges across the strange case of Anna O, the hysteria
of Josef Breuer, the love of dogs, the Freud industry, the role of gossip and fiction, bad manners, pop psychology and
French philosophy, figure skating on thin ice, and contemporary therapy culture. A map to the Freudian minefield and a
masterful negotiation of high theory and low culture, Killing Freud is a witty and fearless revaluation of psychoanalysis
and its real place in 20th century history. It will appeal to anyone curious about the life of the mind after the death of
Freud.
"Its erudition offers sure-fire caviar." -The Independent, U.K.
"A flamboyant and hilarious satire of one of our most revered cultural institutions, Killing Freud combines impeccable
and truly original scholarship with great wit." -Ikkel Borch-Jacobsen, author of The Freudian Subject and
Remembering Anna O

Introduction
The Deaths of Sigmund Freud

A Note on Bad Manners

Part I: Suggestion & Fraud in the Age of Critical Freud Studies
1. The Strange Case of "Anna O.": An Overview of the 'Revisionist' Assessment
2. Rhetoric, Representation, and the Hysterical Josef Breuer
3. Critical Readers of Freud Unite: A New Era for Freud Studies

Part II. Selected Memories of Psychoanalysis: History, Theory, Politics
4. Freud and His Followers, Or How Psychoanalysis Brings Out the Worst in Everyone
5. Gossip, Fiction, and the History of the History of Psychoanalysis: An Open Letter
6. Jacques What's-His-Name: Death, Memory, and Archival Sickness
7. The Politics of Representing Freud: A Short Account of a Media War,
8. This Time With Feeling
9. Funny Business: The Cartoon Seminar of Jacques Lacan
10. Going to the Dogs, Or My Life as a Psychoanalyst, By David Beddow

Part III: Analysts at Play, Working
11. Psychoanalysis On Thin Ice: Jones and Figure Skating
12. Psychoanalysis, Doggie StylePart IV: Last Words
13. Psychoanalysis, Parasites, and the "Culture of Banality"
14. The Futures of Psychoanalysis

Notes

Index