A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory

Author(s) : Stephen Frosh

A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory

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PART I: FREUDIAN THEORY
The Appeal of Psychoanalysis
A Family History of Psychoanalysis
What Freud was Trying to Do
The Freudian Unconscious
Sex, Aggression, Life and death
Repression and Other Defences
The Structure of the Mind: Id, Ego, Superego
Oedipus, Masculinity, Femininity
Psychopathology: What Makes Us Sad (and Mad)
PART II: DEVELOPMENTS IN PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY
Psychoanalysts After Freud
Attachment and Mentalisation
The Principles of Object Relations Theory
Mourning, Melancholia, Depression and Loss
The Paranoid-Schizoid Position and Other Extremes
Projection and Projective Identification
Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Interpretation and Transference
Psychotherapeutic Relationships
PART III: WIDER APPLICATIONS
Psychoanalysis, Film and Literature
Politics and Society
Conclusion
Recommended Reading

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