With the intrigue of a mystery, Questions for Freud uncovers the paradoxes that riddle psychoanalysis today and traces them to FreudÆs life. Nicholas Rand and Maria Torok develop a new biographical... (more)
Examines how, early in her career, Margaret Arden became fascinated by the problem of the gap between theory and practice. The text considers how, as a result, she arrived at the belief that there is... (more)
Psychoanalysis is in danger of becoming marginalized, if not extinct, contends Robert Prince. Questions asked by the contributors to this book include: will psychoanalysis survive?, and will it... (more)
Shows how each person unconsciously invests the ordinary objects of life with particular and private meaning. As each person subsequently voyages through the environment he encounters objects that... (more)
The book firstly reviews the historical role of theory in psychoanalysis, and explores the factors separating cognitive science from psychoanalysis today. Building on this, the author presents a... (more)
Is psychoanalysis a "Jewish science"? Ten essays contributed by the editor and distinguished scholars explore the Jewishness of psychoanalysis, its origins in the Jewish situation of late nineteenth... (more)
This book questions whether 'autonomy' is a pivotal psychotherapeutic value. Basing his discussion upon the key Kleinian concept of 'projective identification', the author argues that 'integration'... (more)
Traces the history and development of child psychoanalysis from its birth in Vienna to its present status as a thriving discipline, practiced on an international scale. The authors argue that a... (more)
A discussion of how the individual has two sorts of relationships with an 'other' - other beings, other individuals. The first regards the other as an entirely different being from oneself, but one... (more)
A theoretical book, seasoned with clinical anecdotes to make the theory come alive, the author questions the construction of certain categories of identity and reference: 'woman', 'feminine',... (more)
Focusing on the racial dynamics of feminist interpretation, the essays in this collection question such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the universal nature of psychoanalytic categories,... (more)
In this intellectual memoir, Gedo paints a portrait of American psychoanalysis, its popular peak and its failure to face the complexity of its task, and its consequent retreat into schismatic... (more)
Derrida argues against the notion that the basic ideas of psychoanalysis have been thoroughly worked through, argued and assimilated in the three essays that make up this stimulating book. He... (more)
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Through her numerous books and papers in learned journals, Hanna Segal has made contributions that have profoundly influenced contemporary psychoanalytic thinking. This influence extends far beyond... (more)
Provides an introduction to key issues concerning the application of psychoanalytic theories to culture. The argument of this volume is that we cannot grasp the complexity of contemporary global... (more)
Affective Genealogies is an incisive contribution to the current reassessment of postmodern culture and theory. Elizabeth J. Bellamy examines how the Holocaust and Jews have been represented in a... (more)
With Sigmund Freud flummoxed on the question of what women want, any encounter between psychoanalysis and feminism would seem to promise a standoff. However, Mari Jo Buhle argues that the... (more)
Embattled and belittled, demonized and deemed passé, this text argues that feminism in the late 1990s seems becalmed, but without being calm. It is as true in literary criticism as elsewhere in the... (more)
This work draws together some of Fordham's key writings on psychoanalysis and analytical psychology, including a major new work on the recorded cases of Freud, Jung and Klein, discussing them in the... (more)
Psychology is the dogma of our age, psychotherapy is our means of self-understanding, and "repressed memory" is now a universally familiar form of trauma. The author explores the degree to which we... (more)
A companion volume to It is a New Kind of Diaspora. Taking up where that book leaves off, it traces some of the consequences of the emigration of German and Austrian psychoanalysts to London,... (more)
In this, the sixth volume in the highly successful monograph series produced under the auspices of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Health Services (EFPP), the... (more)
In this text the authors discuss the existence of an interpersonal and transpersonal unconscious - a relational space, which is unrepressed and capable of creativity in making relationships. They... (more)
This book has been written for a broad audience. It is addressed to anyone who is at all concerned with a scientific grounding for the art of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and for the... (more)
This is an analysis of Freud's major writings on religion and culture. The author analyses the texts and uses theories derived from contemporary French theorists Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva, in... (more)
These essays consider the importance of the metaphor of haunting as it has appeared in literature, culture and philosophy. Haunting is considered as both a literal and figurative term that... (more)