Freud for the Twenty-First Century

Robert Samuels is Lecturer in advanced writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He holds doctorates in Psychoanalysis and English. He is the author of 11 books, including Psychoanalyzing the Politics of the New Brain Sciences (2017).

• 1.Introduction: The Science of Everyday Life.- 2.Science and the Reality Principle.- 3.The Pleasure Principle and the Death Drive.- 4.The Unconscious and Primary Processes.- 5.Transference and Narcissism.- 6.The Resistances to Psychoanalysis and Global Progress.- 7.Progress and Its Discontents.