LEGEND OF FREUD, THE

Weber (English and critical theory, UCLA) shows why psychoanalysis lasts: because it is thought in conflict with itself. In order to address the question, can psychoanalytic thinking escape the effects of what it endeavors to think, Weber returns toFreud's textsespecially in the original Germanto read Freud as Freud himself read dreams and slips of tongue. While this book is written primarily for psychoanalytic sophisticates, one need not know German, since Freud's passages are presented in translation, with the important German terms discussed.