The notion of identification, especially in the discourse of feminist theory, has come sharply into focus alongside interest in topics such as 'queer performativity', cross-dressing and 'racial... (more)
Presents and conrasts Freud's and Kraepelin's interpretations of dream speech, and reassesses them in the light of modern linguistics. (more)
Discusses how recent advances in infant research, ethology, cognitive psychology, narrative studies, and neurobiology are generating far-reaching changes in theory and technique. Divided into... (more)
This dictionary provides helpful and incisive definitions which, read together, comprise a sustained commentary on psychoanalysis. The text has been thoroughly revised with an extended introduction,... (more)
This study argues that psychoanalytic theory retains an overwhelming explanatory strength in relation to questions of sexual difference and representation. It seeks to show how the issue of desire... (more)
John Farrell analyzes the personality and thought of Sigmund Freud in order to give insight into modernity's paranoid character and into the true nature of Freudian psychoanalysis. John Farrell's... (more)
This introductory work provides a source of reference for psychoanalysts in training and in practice, with detailed definitions of over 200 Lacanian terms. Attention is given both to Lacan's use of... (more)
Written by artists and scholars with a psychoanalytic training, this seminal collection of essays on painting, sculpture, literature, history, anthropology and philosophy illustrates how... (more)
This is an exploration of the similarities and differences between these two, often feuding, perspectives on living: psychoanalysis and Catholicism.
This collection of findings, about the first two years of life, examines the implications for contemporary psychoanalysis. It explores this in terms of the unfolding sense of self, then... (more)
Challenges the view that horror films conceptualize women as victim by means of a feminist psychoanalytic critique. 182 pages. (more)
This interesting selection of papers illuminates the contribution of the Philadelphia Associations to philisophical criticism of psychoanalytic concepts. (more)
The book is divided into four sections. The first two examine current perspectives from psychoanalytic self psychology and social psychology, and the latter two present an integration of... (more)
This book is designed to meet the needs of students who seek,
Explores the changes in psychoanalytic theory over the last century, and the relationship between psychoanalysis and contemporary culture. Contributors include Jessica Benjamin, Cornelius... (more)
In this psychobiography, Erik H. Erikson brings his insights on human development and the identity crisis to bear on the leading figure of the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther. 288 pages.
This thought-provoking volume contains readings of Shakespeare - including Lacan's study of Hamlet - Coleridge, Dante, as well as Freud, Lacan, Marx, Derrida and Plato. (more)
Marion Milner introduces this edited collection of her papers from 1942 to 1977 with a fascinating biographical account of her development in psychoanalysis. The collection includes her classic... (more)
Examines the relationship between literary narrative and psychoanalysis, using Freud's notion of transference as a model for how narratives work. (more)
Examines the nature of psychological therapy informed by psychoanalytical concepts. The book is laced with clinical examples and informed by classical psychoanalysis, object-relations and self... (more)
By challenging psychoanalytic traditions and diminishing the power of rhetoric, this text aims to show how psychoanalysis can remain a creative enterprise with a scientific base (more)
This text focuses on the special problems and situations which can affect the course of treatment of patients. These include: acting out, panic states, experiences of illness, pregnancy and abortion,... (more)
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This completely revised and updated second edition is a guide to the range and complexity of psychoanalytic theories. Beginning with the work of Freud, it examines the basic assumptions and social... (more)
Using the theories of Freud and Klein, the author argues that psychoanalysis provides the most penetrating answers concerning the problems of the subconscious and irrationality.