Follies of the wise : dissenting essays

Summary: Contains essays and reviews covering a wide range of topics including "intelligent design" creationism, theosophy, UFOs, American buddhism, repressed childhood sexual abuse, sexual offenders' conviction, hysteria, esotericism, recovered memory, memory therapy and literary criticism.

Record details

ISBN: 9781593761509 (pbk)*
ISBN: 9781593761011 (hc)
ISBN: 1593761015
Physical Description: print
405 p. ; 23 cm.
Edition: 1st Shoemaker & Hoard ed.
Publisher: Emeryville, CA : Shoemaker & Hoard, c2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [379] - 395) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. The unknown Freud -- 2. Freudian suspicion versus suspicion of Freud -- 3. A handful of dust -- 4. Unconscious deeps and empirical shallows -- 5. The revenge of the repressed, part I -- 6. The revenge of the repressed, part II -- 7. Demonology for an age of science -- 8. The trauma trap -- 9. Keeping us in hysterics -- 10. Out, damned blot! -- 11. The mind snatchers -- 12. The consolation of theosophy -- 13. The esoteric unconscious -- 14. The new creationists and their friends -- 15. Darwin goes to Sunday school -- 16. Zen and the art of success -- 17. The end of the poststructuralist era -- 18. Kafka in the clouds -- 19. Call me liberal -- App. A. Compromises with creationism -- App. B. Freud, Lacan, and the pseudoscientific academy.