Description: Routledge Critical Thinkers is a new series for readers who need an accessible introduction to the key figures in contemporary critical thought. The books provide crucial orientation for further study and equip readers to engage with each theorist's original texts. Each Routledge Critical Thinkers volume will place its subject in his or her historical and intellectual contexts, and explain:
-- Why he or she is important
-- What motivated his or her work
-- What his or her key ideas were
-- Who and what influenced the thinker
-- Who and what the thinker has influenced
-- What to read next, and why.

Featuring extensively annotated guides to further reading, these essential guides are the first point of reference for anyone wishing to investigate the work of the important critical thinkers of our time.

Egos and ids, Oedipal complexes and Freudian slips: we cannot escape the influence of Sigmund Freud not only in literary studies but in the way we think about our lives. Pamela Thurschwell takes a fresh look at the work of this groundbreaking theorist, offering readers a clear introduction to Freud's importance for psychoanalytic criticism, while tracing the scientific and cultural contexts from which he emerged. This book guides readers through Freud's terminology and key ideas, then concludes with a detailed bibliography of this key thinker's own writings and relevant secondary texts.

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