The Late Sigmund Freud: Or, The Last Word on Ps. Dufresne Hardcover**

Cambridge University Press

The Late Sigmund FreudOr, The Last Word on Psychoanalysis, Society, and All the Riddles of Life\nAuthor(s): Todd Dufresne\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107178724, 978-1107178724\nSynopsis\nFreud is best remembered for two applied works on society, The Future of an Illusion and Civilization and its Discontents. Yet the works of the final period are routinely denigrated as merely supplemental to the earlier, more fundamental 'discoveries' of the unconscious and dream interpretation. In fact, the 'cultural Freud' is sometimes considered an embarrassment to psychoanalysis. Dufresne argues that the late Freud, as brilliant as ever, was actually revealing the true meaning of his life's work. And so while The Future of an Illusion, Civilization and its Discontents, and his final work Moses and Monotheism may be embarrassing to some, they validate beliefs that Freud always held - including the psych.