Radical Freud

Radical Freud reveals a radical dimension to Sigmund Freud's sexual theory that has previously been neglected. Thomas Olver argues that Freud's radical heritage has been transformed into an orthodox school with an internal stasis that is unassailable from within but increasingly challenged from without as irrelevant.

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Thomas Olver is an independent researcher and translator living in Pretoria, South Africa. He studied modern languages, comparative literature and psychology at Pretoria, Witwatersrand and Zurich. He favours a collaborative approach to epistemology. His research and teaching interests include psychoanalysis, semiotics, aesthetics, narratology, modern literature, translation and the history of ideas.

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Radical Freud reveals a radical dimension to Sigmund Freud's sexual theory that has previously been neglected. Thomas Olver argues that Freud's radical heritage has been transformed into an orthodox school with an internal stasis that is unassailable from within but increasingly challenged from without as irrelevant.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: overview and methodology

1. The de-radicalisation of Freud

2. Reconstructing the bisexuality thesis I: the Oedipus complex

3. Reconstructing the bisexuality thesis II: primary identification

4. The bisexual dialectic

5. The clinical narrative and bisexuality

Conclusion: the bisexuality of indiscriminate sex