It takes the average reader 2 hours and 51 minutes to read Towards Reading Freud by Mark Edmundson
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In this book Mark Edmundson reverses the usual practice of using Freud to analyze literary texts. Instead, he reads Freud by analogy with major imaginative writers for whom the figuring and refiguring of the self is a central activity. His readings expose a dialectic between the therapeutic Freud and Freud the sublime author and challenge the normative role of psychoanalysis both in society and in literary criticism. Edmundson begins by comparing the Oedipal passage in The Interpretation of Dreams with works of Sophocles and Shakespeare. He reads Freud's "On Narcissism" through the lens of...
Towards Reading Freud by Mark Edmundson is 171 pages long, and a total of 42,921 words.
This makes it 58% the length of the average book. It also has 52% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 54 minutes to read Towards Reading Freud aloud.
Towards Reading Freud is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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