Shopping with Freud by Rachel Bowlby
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.`A fascinating and seductive book' - The Guardian
Rachel Bowlby taught at the universities of Sussex, Oxford, and York after receiving her PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University. She's authored books about shopping history (JustLooking, Carried Away), psychoanalysis and feminism (Still Crazy After All These Years, Shopping with Freud), and Virginia Woolf (Feminist Destinations and Further Essays on Virginia Woolf). She has also translated books by authors such as Jacques Derrida and Jean-François Lyotard, as well as other modern French philosophers. She draws on her classical studies background in Freudian Mythologies.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780415060073 |
| ISBN 10 | 0415060079 |
| Title | Shopping with Freud |
| Author | Rachel Bowlby |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 1993-09-02 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
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