Shopping with Freud / Edition 1

by Rachel Bowlby, Bowlby Rachel

Overview

What is a consumer? Shopping with Freud looks at some of the surprising ways in which the consumer subject appears in a range of writings - from literature to marketing psychology to psychoanalysis.
Rachel Bowlby shows how ideas about consumption are brought to bear on contemporary conceptions of choice in areas that seem far removed from a straightforward matter of shopping. She also shows that arguments and assumptions about the psychology of consumers themselves throw light on genderal questions of human psychology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415060073
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/02/1993
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Promoting Dorien Gray 3. ‘But she could have been reading Lady Chatterley': the obscene side to the canon 4. Lolita and the poetry of advertising 5. A happy event: the births of psychoanalysis 6. Frankenstein's woman-to-be: choice and the new reproductive technologies 7. Make up your mind: scenes from the psychology of selling and shopping

Editorial Reviews

‘A fascinating and seductive book.' - The Guardian

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