Download or read book Freud on the Psychology of Ordinary Mental Life written by Susan Sugarman and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2010-06-16 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book works to expose that vision and to demonstrate its fertility for further inquiry. It reconstructs several of Freud's works on ordinary mental life, tracking his method of inquiry, in particular his search for the child within the adult, and culminating in a deployment of his tools independently of his analyses. It shows how to read Freud for his insight and generativity and how to push beyond the confines of his analyses in pursuit of new lines of exploration. In this endeavor, in turn, it at once echoes and encourages the spirit of play with ideas so characteristic of, and so engaging in, Freud.