A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory
Book Details
- Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
- Published : 2026
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 280
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Category 2 :
Culture and Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 33320
- ISBN 13 : 9781350534063
- ISBN 10 : 1350534064
Table of Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
PART ONE: FREUDIAN THEORY
Chapter 1: The Appeal of Psychoanalysis
Chapter 2: Main Schools of Psychoanalysis
Chapter 3: What Freud was Trying to Do
Chapter 4: The Freudian Unconscious
Chapter 5: Sex, aggression, life and death
Chapter 6: Repression and Other Defences
Chapter 7: The Structure of the Mind: id, ego, superego.
Chapter 8: Oedipus, Masculinity, Femininity
Chapter 9: Psychopathology: What Makes Us Sad (and Mad)
PART TWO: DEVELOPMENTS IN PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY
Chapter 10: Psychoanalysts after Freud
Chapter 11: Attachment, Mentalisation and Neuropsychoanalysis
Chapter 12: The Principles of Object Relations Theory
Chapter 13: Mourning, Melancholia, Loss and Trauma
Chapter 14: The Paranoid-Schizoid Position and Other Extremes
Chapter 15: Projection and Psychosis
Chapter 16: Imaginary, Symbolic and Real: Lacanian psychoanalysis
PART THREE: THEORY OF THERAPY
Chapter 17: Interpretation and Transference
Chapter 18: Countertransference and Intersubjectivity
PART FOUR: WIDER APPLICATIONS
Chapter 19: Psychoanalysis, Film and Literature
Chapter 20: Politics and Society
Chapter 21: Class, Gender and Race
Conclusion
Recommended Reading

