Reddit reviews The Freud Reader

John Fowles The Magus should suit you just fine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magus_%28novel%29

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and I would suggest you read The Freud Reader as he was hugely inspirational for a lot of writers. It helps gain a better understanding of characters.

http://www.amazon.com/Freud-Reader-Sigmund/dp/0393314030/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1370038703&sr=1-1&keywords=the+freud+reader

If I think of more I will come back. Have a good summer!

People who say Freud has been "debunked" aren't much different than people who say Darwin has been "debunked". It's kind of "wishful thinking". Like Darwin, most things Freud has to say are not flattering.

And people don't like unflattering truths, or unflattering ideas, generally.

The only real way to decide if a thinker's ideas have merit, is to read them for yourselves, and decide for yourself.

Pretty much everything Freud wrote is worthwhile (thought-provoking). If you're interested in psychology/philosophy - you will enjoy it.

One cool thing about Freud is he speculated about everything...his thoughts run the gamut from the everyday (jokes & expressions, verbal slips, day-to-day stuff) to the deepest, inner processes that drive identity and sexuality.

The more of it you read, the more you'll want to read.

You can buy something called the "Freud Reader" that contains a lot of excerpts of his best stuff.

https://www.amazon.com/Freud-Reader-Sigmund/dp/0393314030

His works are also available free on the internet.

(Google "Complete Works of Freud" and you can find a single pdf with everything).

The book you're talking about - "Jokes, and their Relation to the Unconscious" is in there.

Zizek is not a bad person to read for getting into Lacan but really the best thing to do is to read Freud first. Read The Interpretation of Dreams and The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, then get The Freud Reader from W.W. Norton and read many of the later papers. You especially want to read Totem and Taboo and Beyond the Pleasure Principle. Now that you've gotten a handle on Freud, pick up the Fink translation of Ecrits and just jump right into "The Seminar on the Purloined Letter" which I think is Lacan's most important piece in many ways (but this is just opinion). Good luck, he doesn't make any sense, and I've been studying him for half a decade now.

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