An edition of Economics of the Libido (2015)
Economics of the Libido
Psychic Bisexuality, the Superego, and the Centrality of the Oedipus Complex
By Trevor C. Pederson
Publish Date
2015
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Language
eng
Pages
200
Description:
This book is an attempt to get beyond pluralism by embedding psychoanalysis in philosophy and returning to Freud qua psychologist to link the depths of the mind to its surface. Beginning with the proposition that egoism and altruism are a more accurate representation of the binary of activity and passivity, Economics revisits Freud's work to contextualize his central concepts and expand upon them. Egoism and altruism are further divided into masculine and feminine drives which can exist in either sex due to psychic bisexuality. Pederson's Freud places the Oedipus complex as the height of pers.