Mike Johnduff, a Princeton grad student in English whose "Working Notes" blog includes a number of interesting short essays on figures in Continental philosophy (e.g. Heidegger, Marx, Foucault, etc.), has written several pieces on Freud, including this article what we can know of psychological drives according to Freud. He states: Though drives are determined by that Continue Reading …
Mad Men on the Death Drive
A bit of thoughtful pop culture to kick off our Freud blog deliberations: In what I believe was the pilot episode of Mad Men, the 1950s advertising professionals that are the show's main characters are thinking about how to do a campaign for a cigarette company now that it was becoming common knowledge that smoking causes cancer. The company's researcher pulled out Freud's Continue Reading …