Freud's Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film

Teresa De Lauretis makes a bold and orginal argument for the renewed relevance of the Freudian theory of drives, through close readings of texts ranging from cinema and literature to psychoanalysis and cultural theory.

Author: Teresa de Lauretis
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 04/04/2008
Pages: 190
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.42w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9780230524781

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 08/15/2008 pg. 16
Choice 02/01/2009

About the Author
TERESA DE LAURETIS, born and educated in Italy, is Professor of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. The author of numerous, widely translated, works in semiotics, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, literary and film theory, she writes in both English and Italian. Her books include Alice Doesn't (1984), Technologies of Gender (1987), The Practice of Love (1994), Soggetti eccentrici (1999) and Figures of Resistance (2007), a reader of her essays in feminist film theory, edited by Patricia White.