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    The Democracy of Suffering: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe, Philosophy in the Anthropocene.Todd Dufresne - 2019 - McGill-Queen's University Press.
    In The Democracy of Suffering philosopher Todd Dufresne provides a strikingly original exploration of the past, present, and future of this epoch, the Anthropocene, demonstrating how the twin crises of reason and capital have dramatically remade the essential conditions for life itself. Images, cartoons, artworks, and quotes pulled from literary and popular culture supplement this engaging and unorthodox look into where we stand amidst the ravages of climate change and capitalist economics. With humour, passion, and erudition, Dufresne diagnoses a frightening (...)
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    Buying Andy Warhol.Todd Dufresne - 2008 - The European Legacy 13 (2):223-225.
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    Beyond the Pleasure Principle.Todd Dufresne & Gregory C. Richter (eds.) - 2011 - Peterborough, CA: Broadview Press.
    _Beyond the Pleasure Principle_ is Freud’s most philosophical and speculative work, exploring profound questions of life and death, pleasure and pain. In it Freud introduces the fundamental concepts of the “repetition compulsion” and the “death drive,” according to which a perverse, repetitive, self-destructive impulse opposes and even trumps the creative drive, or Eros. The work is one of Freud’s most intensely debated, and raises important questions that have been discussed by philosophers and psychoanalysts since its first publication in 1920. The (...)
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    Civilization and its Discontents.Todd Dufresne & Gregory C. Richter (eds.) - 2015 - Peterborough, CA: Broadview Press.
    In _Civilization and Its Discontents_ Freud extends and clarifies his analysis of religion; analyzes human unhappiness in contemporary civilization; ratifies the critical importance of the death drive theory; and contemplates the significance of guilt and conscience in everyday life. The result is Freud’s most expansive work, one wherein he discusses mysticism, love, interpretation, narcissism, religion, happiness, technology, beauty, justice, work, the origin of civilization, phylogenetic development, Christianity, the Devil, communism, the sense of guilt, remorse, and ethics. A classic, important, accessible (...)
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  5. David Wills, Matchbook: Essays in Deconstruction Reviewed by.Todd Dufresne - 2006 - Philosophy in Review 26 (2):148-150.
     
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  6. (1 other version)James Williams, Lyotard & the Political Reviewed by.Todd Dufresne - 2001 - Philosophy in Review 21 (2):154-156.
     
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    On Film, Theory, & "Film as Philosophy".Todd Dufresne - 2011 - Film and Philosophy 15:139-154.
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    Returns of the "French Freud": Freud, Lacan, and Beyond.Todd Dufresne (ed.) - 1997 - Routledge.
    Creating a snapshot of current thinking about psychoanalysis, this lively collection examines the legacy of Freud and Lacan. Through provocative and penetrating arguments, the contributors take psychoanalysis to task for 0ts dark view of human nature, theoretical sorcery, devaluation of femininity, self-referentiality, discipleship, negativity, ignorance of history and more. The essays also examine the complex relationships between Freudian and Lacanian theory and philosophy, feminism, anthropology, communications theory, deconstruction, Foucauldian genealogy and medical history. The outstanding list of contributors includes Paul Roazen, (...)
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  9. (1 other version)Simon Critchley, Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction Reviewed by.Todd Dufresne - 2001 - Philosophy in Review 21 (6):414-415.
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    The Foundation of the Unconscious: Schelling, Freud, and the Birth of the Modern Psyche.Todd Dufresne - 2013 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 51 (1):134-135.
    Matt ffytche attempts to make good on his book’s title and provide a philosophical foundation for the unconscious. To that end, he privileges the work of the Romantic philosopher F. W. J. Schelling, who not only flirts with the unconscious but comes to view it as a necessary foundation for thinking about human freedom more generally. So begins ffytche’s sometimes complex, often convincing discussion of the unconscious, which grounds post-Enlightenment interest in freedom, autonomy, authenticity, and liberalism. According to ffytche, the (...)
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    The Future of an Illusion.Todd Dufresne & Gregory C. Richter (eds.) - 2012 - Peterborough, CA: Broadview Press.
    Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, declared that religion is a universal obsessional neurosis in his famous work of 1927, _The Future of an Illusion_. This work provoked immediate controversy and has continued to be an important reference for anyone interested in the intersection of philosophy, psychology, religion, and culture. Included in this volume is Oskar Pfister’s critical engagement with Freud’s views on religion. Pfister, a Swiss pastor and lay analyst, defends mature religion from Freud’s “scientism.” Freud’s and Pfister’s texts (...)
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    The Late Sigmund Freud: Or, the Last Word on Psychoanalysis, Society, and All the Riddles of Life.Todd Dufresne - 2017 - Cambridge University Press.
    Freud is best remembered for two applied works on society, The Future of an Illusion and Civilization and its Discontents. Yet the works of the final period are routinely denigrated as merely supplemental to the earlier, more fundamental 'discoveries' of the unconscious and dream interpretation. In fact, the 'cultural Freud' is sometimes considered an embarrassment to psychoanalysis. Dufresne argues that the late Freud, as brilliant as ever, was actually revealing the true meaning of his life's work. And so while The (...)
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    The Making of a “Freud Basher,” or Reflections of a “Supercilious Neurotic…”.Todd Dufresne - 2014 - The European Legacy 19 (1):72-82.
    A well-known critic of Freud discusses in frank terms the features of psychoanalysis that still attract scholarly interest, and the polemics that deform research and defames criticism. The author defends Freud criticism from ad hominem charges and outlines serious problems with scholarship in the field, including fraud, bad faith, and a disregard for professional standards. But he also indulges and explores the supposedly “pathological” undercurrents of Freud criticism. His surprising conclusion: in a way the field of Freud Studies is sick, (...)
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  14. David Wills, Matchbook: Essays in Deconstruction. [REVIEW]Todd Dufresne - 2006 - Philosophy in Review 26:76-76.
     
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    Of Minimal Things. [REVIEW]Todd Dufresne - 2003 - International Studies in Philosophy 35 (2):141-142.
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