Note: Onfray’s complete lecture series ran for over 30 hours across multiple “livres audio.” The “16th” audio typically falls within Tome 2 (Le Christianisme hédoniste) or Tome 3 (Les Libertins baroques). I will review based on the content of a representative Lecture 16 from the core project, focusing on his radical reinterpretation of a major figure (e.g., Lucrèce, Gassendi, or the libertins érudits).
(released as part of the audio collection by Frémeaux & Associés) is the second of two volumes dedicated to a critical deconstruction of Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis. Overview of Volume 16 Note: Onfray’s complete lecture series ran for over
While traditional history views Freud as a liberator of the unconscious, Onfray reclassifies him within his "Counter-History" series as a thinker who perhaps obscures more than he reveals through his own "manifest content" of dreams and negation. Product Details for Collectors Overview of Volume 16 While traditional history views
Core Argument: Onfray applies his "counter-history" method—which seeks to rescue forgotten materialist thinkers—to argue that psychoanalysis is an ideological construction rather than a medical discovery. Key Topics: The "manufacture" of clinical success stories. Note: Onfray’s complete lecture series ran for over