Reading French Psychoanalysis

Editor : Dana Birksted-Breen, Editor : Alain Gibeault, Editor : Sara Flanders

Part of New Library of Psychoanalysis Teaching series - more in this series

Reading French Psychoanalysis

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : January 2010
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 688
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Category 2 :
    Lacanian Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 28831
  • ISBN 13 : 9780415485036
  • ISBN 10 : 0415485037
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How has psychoanalysis developed in France in the years since Lacan so dramatically polarized the field? In this book, Dana Birksted-Breen and Sara Flanders of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and Alain Gibeault of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society provide an overview of how French psychoanalysis has developed since Lacan. Focusing primarily on the work of psychoanalysts from the French Psychoanalytical Association and from the Paris Psychoanalytical Society, the two British psychoanalysts view the evolution of theory as it appears to them from the outside, while the French psychoanalyst explains and elaborates from inside the French psychoanalytic discourse. Seminal and representative papers have been chosen to illuminate what is special about French thinking. A substantial general introduction argues in favour of the specificity of 'French psychoanalysis', tracing its early influences and highlighting specific contemporary developments.

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Sections are made up of introductory material by Alain Gibeault, followed by illustrative papers in the following categories:
* the history of psychoanalysis in France
* the pioneers and their legacy
* the setting and the process of psychoanalysis
* phantasy and representation
* the body and the drives
* masculine and feminine sexuality
* psychosis.

An excellent introduction to French psychoanalytical debate, "Reading French Psychoanalysis" sheds a complementary light on thinking that has evolved differently in England and North America. It will be ideal reading for beginners and advanced students of clinical theory as well as experienced psychoanalysts wanting to know more about French Psychoanalytic theory, and how it has developed.

About the Editor(s)

Dana Birksted-Breen, a training and supervising psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society in private practice, was General Editor of The New Library of Psychoanalysis (2000-2010), initiating The New Library Teaching Series, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the IJP since 2010.

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Sara Flanders is a training and supervising psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She works at the Brent Adolescent Centre in London and is Co-Chair of the Child and Adolescent Forum of the European Psychoanalytical Federation.

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