Foucault Versus Freud (Psychological Issues)

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction: Foucault Versus Freud
	Foucault\'s Question: Why was Freud\'s Oedipal Theory so Influential?
	Sigmund Freud\'s Theory of the Oedipus Complex
	Michel Foucault
	Foucault on Power/Knowledge
	Foucault on the Deployment of Sexuality and the Repression Hypothesis
	Foucault on Confession as a Primary Tool of the Deployment of Sexuality
	Stefan Zweig on the Incitement of Sexualization as an Effect of Sexual Repression
	Foucault on Freud\'s Theory of Unconscious Mental Contents
	Foucault on Freud\'s Repudiation of the Degenerescence Theory
	Foucault on the Psychoanalytic Session
	Foucault\'s Disparagement of Freud\'s Sexual Theory of Hysteria
	Foucault Versus Freud on the Interpretation of Sophocles\'s \"Oedipus Rex\"
	Foucault\'s Overall Attitude Toward Psychoanalysis
	Conclusion: Foucault\'s Rejection of the Oedipal Theory
	References
Chapter 2: The Appeal of the Oedipus Complex
	The Puzzle of Freud\'s Success
	Ernest Gellner on the Intellectual Enticements of Psychoanalysis
	Allen Esterson on Freud\'s Rhetorical Power
	Anthony Derksen on Freud\'s Seven Pseudo-Scientific Strategies
	Frank Cioffi on Freud\'s Liberation of Sexuality
	Wittgenstein on Freud\'s Power of Overgeneralizing
	Nathan Hale Jr. on the Timing of Freud\'s Theory
	John Demos on the Rise of the Oedipal Family
	Filip Buekens and Maarten Boudry on Psychoanalysis as Searlian Institutional Knowledge
	Sarah Winter on Freud\'s Marketing Genius
	D. H. Lawrence on the Inevitable Rational Appeal of the Incest Theory
	Malcolm Macmillan on the Appeal of Psychoanalysis
	Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen on the Nonexistence of Psychoanalysis
	Conclusion: Is There Room for Foucault\'s Account?
	References
Chapter 3: The Masturbation Crusade
	The Masturbation Crusade and the Incest Theory
	The Enigma of the Masturbation Crusade
	Onania and Tissot: Eighteenth-Century Origins of the Masturbation Crusade
	Rush and Howe: Exporting the Crusade to America
	Lallemand: The Expansion of the Crusade to Spermatorrhea
	Bergeret: The Expansion of the Crusade to Conjugal Onanism
	Mid- to Late-Nineteenth-Century Shifts in the Masturbation Crusade
	William Acton 1: The Victorian View of Masturbation
	William Acton 2: Masturbation in Children and Women
	Late-Nineteenth-Century-Trends in the Masturbation Crusade
	References
Chapter 4: Surveillance, Confession, Medicalization: Foucault on the Masturbation Crusade
	The Explanatory Riddle of the Masturbation Crusade
	Foucault Versus the Marxists on the Masturbation Crusade
	Surveillance and Interrogation of the Suspected Masturbator by Parents and Schools
	The Medicalization of Sexuality
	Confession to the Doctor
	The Medical Technology of Control
	Surgery, Castration, and Other Invasive Procedures
	The Masturbation Crusade as Quid Pro Quo for Abandonment of the Child to Public Education
	Commentary on Foucault\'s Analysis of the Masturbation Crusade
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 5: The Preservation of Victorianism: Freud\'s Early Theory as Extension of the Masturbation Crusade
	Freud and the Problem of Neurasthenia
	Freud\'s Division of Neurasthenia into Neurasthenia Proper and Anxiety Neurosis
	The Distinction between the Actual Neuroses and Psychoneuroses
	Freud\'s Classification of Causes
	Freudian Libido Theory as Transformation of the Victorian \"Semenic Economy\"
	Excessive Versus Inadequate Libidinal Discharge in Neurosogenesis
	Masturbation in Early Freudian Theory
	Medical Regulation of the Family\'s Intimate Life
	Freud and the Preservation of Victorianism
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 6: Foucault on the Transition from the Masturbation Crusade to the Oedipal Theory
	The Incest Theory as an Extension of the Masturbation Crusade
	Is the Oedipal Theory a Major Rupture in the Deployment of Sexuality?
	Foucault on the Ease of Transition from the Masturbation Crusade\'s Autoeroticism to the Incest Theory\'s Relational Sexual Desires
	Problems with Foucault\'s \"Ease of Redirection of Sexuality\" Argument
	Foucault\'s Three Further \"Essential\" Arguments for Why the Incest Theory Might be an Extension of the Masturbation Theory
	Essential Argument 1: The Incest Theory Relieves the Parents of Guilt
	Essential Argument 2: The Incest Theory as an Exchange for State Control of the Child
	Essential Argument 3: Greater Penetration of Medical Power/Knowledge
	Oedipal Theory as Rectification of the Deployments of Sexuality and Alliance
	Oedipal Theory as a Differentiator of the Bourgeois
	Comments on Foucault\'s Analysis of the Incest Theory in HS1
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 7: The Dangers of Fantasy: Masturbation and Incestuous Desire in the Little Hans Case
	Foucault\'s Incest Theory Hypothesis Reconsidered
	Makari on the Transition from the Seduction Theory to the Oedipal Theory
	The \"Little Hans\" Case as Providing the Evidence for Foucault\'s Account of the Incest Theory
	Freud\'s Argument for the Normality of Child Sexuality in the Hans Case
	Masturbation as Part of Normal Child Sexual Development
	Freud\'s Rejection of a Causal Link between Hans\'s Masturbation and His Anxiety Disorder
	Component Sexual Instincts
	Why Hans\'s Masturbation is Frustrating Rather than Satisfying
	Masturbation and Incestuous Fantasy in Freud\'s Abandonment of the Seduction Theory: Was Freud Inconsistent?
	Doing and Wanting in Oedipal Confession
	On the Transition from the Masturbation Crusade to the Oedipal Theory
	What Foucault Missed about the Changing Functions of the Deployment of Sexuality
	Conclusion: Oedipal Theory as Both Episode and Turning Point in the Masturbation Crusade
	References
Chapter 8: Foucault\'s Critique of Freud\'s Oedipal Theory: Conclusions and Implications
	With Apologies to Foucault
	Summary of Findings
	Foucault and the Future of Psychoanalysis
	References
Index