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Who Owns Psychoanalysis?
So who does own psychoanalysis? Equally pertinent, what is psychoanalysis? Even before the death of Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis was splintering into different groups, each convinced of their... (more)
Julia Kristeva: Psychoanalysis and Modernity
This is the first systematic overview of Julia Kristeva's vision and work in relation to philosophical modernity. It provides a clear, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary analysis of her thought on... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Motivation
Carrying forward his inquiry into the nature and conditions of normal and abnormal development, the author focuses on motivation. The text offers an alternative to psychoanalytic drive theory that... (more)
The Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis
With over one thousand entries, 'the Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis' provides the best single-volume coverage of the field available. An international array of contributors... (more)
Psychoanalysis: Its Image and Its Public
Moscovici's development of the theory of social representations has long been recognised as a major contribution to social psychology, but discussion of the theory has been limited by the... (more)
The Essentials of Psychoanalysis
Key articles on Psychoanalysis, including 'On Dreams' and 'Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality'. (more)
Hate and the 'Jewish Science': Anti-Semitism, Nazism and Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis has always grappled with its Jewish origins, sometimes celebrating them and sometimes trying to escape or deny them. Through exploration of Freud's Jewish identity, the fate of... (more)
Killing Freud: Twentieth Century Culture and the Death of Psychoanalysis
Killing Freud takes the reader on a journey through the 20th century, tracing the work and influence of one of its greatest icons, Sigmund Freud. A devastating critique, Killing Freud ranges across... (more)
Psychoanalysis as Biological Science: A Comprehensive Theory
Psychoanalysis was once considered primarily a humanistic enterprise. The psychoanalyst was a philosopher and an artist, adept at deciphering the communications and intrapsychic behaviors of the... (more)
The Lacanian Left: Psychoanalysis, Theory, Politics
Engaging with the role of affect and emotion in political life through the central Lacanian notion of 'enjoyment', The Lacanian Left puts forward innovative anlyses of political power and authority,... (more)
Relational and Intersubjective Perspectives in Psychoanalysis
This volume is the first concentrated effort to offer a philosophical critique of relational and intersubjective perspectives in contemporary psychoanalytic thought. The distinguished group of... (more)
The Fall of an Icon: Psychoanalysis and Academic Psychiatry
Over the last few decades, academic psychiatry has undergone a revolution. After the Second World War, most department chairs were psychoanalysts who belonged to separate institutes, not subject to... (more)
Fair Sex, Savage Dreams: Race, Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference
In Fair Sex, Savage Dreams, Jean Walton examines the work of early feminist psychoanalytic writing to decipher it in the unacknowledged yet foundational role of race. Focusing on the 1920s and 1930s,... (more)
Psychoanalysis of Science: The Role of Metaphor, Paraprax, Lacunae and Myth
By systematically deconstructing and analysing scientific texts for irrational unconscious motivations, new scientific associations can be produced. Four categories are suggested as guidelines for... (more)
Becoming Alive: Psychoanalysis and Vitality
Becoming Alive draws on the Winnicottian idea of transitional objects, and puts forward the argument that human beings relate to and use objects in order to generate experiences of 'being alive'. (more)
The Matrix of Hysteria: Psychoanalysis of the Struggle Between the Sexes as Enacted in the Body
The current diversity in psychoanalytic theories of hysteria h confused our understanding of the concept. Matrix of Hysteria offers a new perspective, which draws on previous theories to present a... (more)
4th International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Congress DVD (PAL Format)
4-disc DVD box-set of the First Education Day held during the 4th International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Congress in New York in July 2003. PAL format is compatible in all regions except North America.... (more)
4th International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Congress DVD (NTSC Format)
4-disc DVD box-set of the First Education Day held during the 4th International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Congress in New York in July 2003. NTSC format is compatible in North America. For PAL format see... (more)
Freud's Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis and Social Justice 1918-1938
Today many view Sigmund Freud as an elitist whose psychoanalytic treatment was reserved for the intellectually and financially advantaged. However, in this new work Elizabeth Ann Danto presents a... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Image: Transdisciplinary Perspectives
"Psychoanalysis and the Image" brings together an influential team of international scholars who demonstrate innovative ways to apply psychoanalytical resources in the study of international modern... (more)
Truth, Reality and the Psychoanalyst: Latin American Contributions to Psychoanalysis
All the key ideas developed by psychoanalysis in Latin America are included in this book, as well as relevant historical events for psychoanalysis in each country. The authors of the chapters are... (more)
The Feminine No!: Psychoanalysis and the New Canon
Attempts to understand recent changes in the canon of American literature through the aid of psychoanalytic theory.
The Feminine "No!" sheds new light on the recent culture wars and debates... (more)
The Psyche of the Body: A Jungian Approach to Psychoanalysis
A plea for a Jungian version of psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy, this book presents a much-needed theoretical model, and practical guidelines demonstrating how to handle psychological... (more)
James Joyce and the Problem of Psychoanalysis:
From its very beginning, psychoanalysis sought to incorporate the aesthetic into its domain. Depite Joyce's deliberate attempt to resist this powerful hermeneutic, his work has been confronted by a... (more)
The Letter 28 & 29 (Double Issue): Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Summer 2003 - Autumn 2003
Issue 28, Summer 2003 Contents: Veroniek Knockaert, Gertrudis Van De Vijver and Filip Geerardyn: The intergenerational transmission of the holocaust trauma: Thelegacy of an impossible memory; Rob... (more)
Loving Psychoanalysis: Looking at Culture with Freud and Lacan
Psychoanalysis was neither a product of philosophy nor of academic study. Rather, psychoanalysis was born in the clinic. Freud took his lead from hysterical women; the accounts of their pain,... (more)
The Embodied Self: Movement and Psychoanalysis
By integrating principles from her background as a movement psychotherapist and movement analyst with key concepts from contemporary psychoanalysis, the author offers a new perspective on exploring... (more)
Developmental Science and Psychoanalysis: Integration and Innovation
As a discipline, psychoanalysis began at the interface of mind and brain and has always been about those most basic questions of biology and psychology: loving, hating, what brings us together as... (more)
Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of Mind
Reflects the author's evolving view of how biology has revolutionized psychiatry and psychology and how potentially could alter modern psychoanalytic thought. (more)