Cormac Gallagher: Re-Englishing Encore; Pauline O'Callaghan: Courtly love to Courtney Love: Still no such thing as a sexual relationship?; Patricia McCarthy: A commentary on Lacan's hainamoration and... (more)
Calum Neill: An idiotic act: On the non-example of Antigone; Helena Texier: Antigone goes beyond-the-beyond: From the my lady of the ideal to the malady of the Ideal; Kazushige Shingu: Freud, Lacan... (more)
See catalogue number 27001 for the paperback edition. One of the guiding premises of "Becoming a Subject" is that philosophical investigation into the specifically human way of being in the world... (more)
Cultural theory has found a renewed interest in psychoanalysis, bringing many new readers to Freud and his work. This book is an introductory guide to Freud and brings together for the first time: an... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Time of Life examines the relationship between therapy and the time of life, presenting an original and thought-provoking re-reading of psychoanalysis in relation to questions... (more)
"Beyond the Mind-Body Dualism: Psychoanalysis and the Human Body" is the result of the proceedings of the The 6th Delphi International Psychoanalytical Symposium, held in Greece in October 2004. The... (more)
See catalogue number 26856 for the paperback edition. "The Future of Psychoanalysis" explores the contemporary problem of multiple theories of psychoanalysis and argues for a return to a more... (more)
How do gender and sexual difference influence the erotic transference? Gender, Countertransference and the Erotic Transference offers new insights into working with complex transference and... (more)
Generation is both an introduction to and a comparative study of contemporary psychoanalytic clinical theory. It provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of how new ways of thinking about... (more)
This book is a unique and superb gateway to current psychoanalytic thinking. Thirty of America's foremost psychoanalysts - leaders in defining the current pluralistic state of the profession - have... (more)
The most recent scientific studies have brought a significant contribution to the understanding of basic mental functions such as memory, dreams, identification, repression, which constitute the... (more)
The present collection of essays, unique in its field, shows how key metaphors of Freudian and Kleinian psychoanalysis - splitting, projection, sublimation, identification, the schizoid and... (more)
This book provides easy to read, concise, and clinically useful explanations of over 1800 terms and concepts from the field of psychoanalysis. A history of each term is included in its definition and... (more)
This exceptionally practical and insightful new text explores the emerging field of comparative-integrative psychoanalysis. It provides an invaluable framework for approaching the currently fractious... (more)
A wide-ranging reading of Freud's work, this book focuses on Freud's scientifically discredited ideas about inherited memory in relation both to poststructuralist debates about mourning, and to... (more)
In this provocative work, Joel Faflak argues that Romanticism, particularly British Romantic poetry, invents psychoanalysis in advance of Freud. The Romantic period has long been treated as a time of... (more)
How has Hanna Segal influenced psychoanalysis today? Jean-Michel Quinodoz provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of Segal's life, her clinical and theoretical work, and her contribution to... (more)
"Beyond Yahweh and Jesus" constitutes the first in-depth psychoanalytic study of the Old and New Testaments in terms of God's role in enabling humans to cope with death and the anxiety it evokes. The... (more)
The relationship between psyche and some is extremely important from a psychoanalytic theoretical and clinical perspective. This book reflects the cutting edge intersection of analytic theory,... (more)
Offers analysts and psychodynamic therapists an innovative way of understanding the theoretical intersection of masochism, perversion, shame, guilt, narcissism substance abuse. This constellation of... (more)
Taking Risks from the Unconscious tells the story of a remarkably successful psychoanalysis from the point of view of both analyst and patient. The analyst, Dr Marcus, describes the risk he undertook... (more)
Why do human beings feel shame? What is the cultural dimension of shame and sexuality? Can theory understand the power of affect? How is psychoanalysis integral to cultural theory? The experience of... (more)
Since trauma is a thoroughly relational phenomenon, it is highly unpredictable, and cannot be made to fit within the scientific framework Freud so admired. In "Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty:... (more)
Freud's thinking about the unconscious has always been seen to be more about representations than affects. When it came to the passions of the transference and the demands of his hysterical patients,... (more)
An original critique of queer theory, from a psychoanalytic perspective. In "The World of Perversion", James Penney argues that antihomophobic criticism has nothing to lose - and indeed everything to... (more)
"The Future of Psychoanalysis" explores the contemporary problem of multiple theories of psychoanalysis and argues for a return to a more classical position based on Freud's work. Using his training... (more)
Sitegeist is a space for thinking and questioning philosophy and psychoanalysis; it aims at a change in Geist - spirit, mind, intellect, wit, genius and morale. It seeks to contribute to a renewal of... (more)
Revolutionary and innovative, Jacques Lacan's work lies at the epicentre of modern thought about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference and enjoyment. This new translation of Lacan's deliberation... (more)
Relational psychoanalysis has revivified psychoanalytic discourse by attesting to the analyst's multidimensional subjectivity and then showing how this subjectivity opens to deeper insights about the... (more)
Established psychoanalytic/psychodynamic researchers and theorists bring the exploration of prejudice to a new level by examining how psychoanalysis might elucidate strategies that will eliminate... (more)