TY  - BOOK
AU  - Flieger,Jerry Aline
TI  - Is Oedipus online? siting Freud after Freud
T2  - Short circuits
SN  - 0262562073 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - BF175.4.C84 F65 2005
U1  - 150.1952 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Freud, Sigmund,
KW  - Lacan, Jacques,
KW  - Psychoanalysis and culture
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : forwarding Freud : nodal point as hypertext --; 1; Is Oedipus online? : surfing the psyche --; 2; Has Oedipus struck out? : Zizek on the cyberfield --; 3; The listening eye : post-Oedipal optics and paranoid knowledge --; 4; Up the ante, Oedipus! : Deleuze in Oz --; 5; Twists and trysts : Freud and the millennial knot --; 6; Emergence : gender as avatar --; 7; Fractal Freud : subject as replicant --; 8; Extimacy : the alien among us --; Afterword : is Oedipus (N)online? : psychoanalysis and nonlinearity
N2  - ""Can Freud be 'updated' in the twenty-first century, or is he a venerated but outmoded genius?" asks Jerry Aline Flieger. In Is Oedipus Online? Flieger stages an encounter between psychoanalysis and the new century, testing the viability of Freud's theories in light of the emergent realities of our time. Responding to prominent critics of psychoanalysis and approaching our current preoccupations from a Freudian angle, she presents a reading of Freudian theory that coincides with and even clarifies new concepts in science and culture. Fractals, emergence, topological modeling, and other nonlinearities, for example, can be understood in light of both Freud's idea of the symptom as a nodal point and Lacan's concept of networks (rather than sequential cause and effect) that link psychic realities. At the same time, Flieger suggests how emerging paradigms in science and culture may elucidate Freud's cultural theory."--BOOK JACKET
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