Author

Publication

1995 - Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana

Language

English

Word Count

64,750 words, Guess

Page Count

259 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing9488169
  • Goodreads863127

Classifications

  • DDC155.3
  • LCCRC509.8 .D385 1995

Description

In a challenging new reading of Freud's case study of Serge Pankejeff, the "Wolf Man," Whitney Davis argues that the visual dimension of Freud's writing is crucial to an understanding of its structure and significance. Much of Freud's analysis revolved around Pankejeff's childhood dream of wolves and a drawing of this dream he made for Freud. Davis explores the drawing of the dream in Freud's interpretation of Pankejeff's "latent homosexuality," showing Freud's practice of making and using images to represent the history of persons and their sexuality. Davis also sets this case study in the wider context of Freud's evolving theoretical sexology and clinical work, his creation of psychoanalytic institutions, and his distinctive imagination of homosexual subjectivity.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Theories of representation and difference

Other Editions

  • Drawing the dream of the wolves: homosexuality, interpretation, and Freud's "Wolf Man"Indiana University Press1995-01-01

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