Aging and Its Discontents: Freud and Other Fictions

Kathleen M. Woodward

Indiana University Press, 1991 - Literary Criticism - 244 pages

Provides an analysis of the effect of negative cultural representations on our ideas about getting old. This title argues that in the West ageism, like sexism and racism, is rooted in physical differences and in discrepancies in social power.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Aging and Its Discontents: Freud and Other Fictions; Issue 620 of Midland Bks; Volume 13 of Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy; Theories of contemporary culture
• Author: Kathleen M. Woodward
• Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1991
• ISBN: 0253366402, 9780253366405
• Length: 244 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / European / French; Literary Criticism / General