{"product_id":"9781784783587","title":"Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality: The 1905 Edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first edition of this classic work from 1905 shows a radically different psychoanalysis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe traditional story about the historical origins of Freudian psychoanalysis implies that the Oedipus complex was part of Freudian theory from the very beginning. However, in this first edition of \u003ci\u003eThree Essays on Sexuality\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in 1905 and never before translated into English, we find no reference whatsoever to the Oedipus complex. Is there a Freudian psychoanalysis that is not Oedipal?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis first version of Freud’s \u003ci\u003eThree Essays\u003c\/i\u003e articulates just such a non-Oedipal psychoanalysis. As such, it still has a definite ‘emancipatory’ potential; Freudian psychoanalysis is not Oedipal in its very nature. It is only from 1909 onwards that psychoanalysis tends to become a sophisticated defence of what Freud first called the ‘popular opinion’ about sexuality. It was precisely this ‘popular opinion’ that psychoanalysis originally was meant to deconstruct. Is there a Freudian escape – that is an escape that remains not so much within Freudian orthodoxy, but at least within its inspiration – from this impasse?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf Freud has respected more systematically his own original thesis, could it be that the Oedipus complex wouldn’t be the shibboleth of psychoanalysis? Not only is this first edition less Oedipal than is generally believed, but it also contains the elements for thinking a ‘non-Oedipal’ psychoanalysis; a Freud against Oedipus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by Philippe Van Haute\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48729360892144,"sku":"9781784783587","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781784783587_p0.jpg?v=1768853139","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781784783587","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}