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The World of Perversion: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Absolute of Desire
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
"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 - Number 2 (Spring 2009) - A Journal of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy
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)
The Seminar of Jaques Lacan Book XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis
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: Volume 3: New Voices
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)
The Future of Prejudice: Psychoanalysis and the Prevention of Prejudice
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)
Time, Self, and Psychoanalysis
"Time, Self, and Psychoanalysis" has two theoretical foci - the first is the nature of time experience and the second is the implications of the understanding of time for conceptualizing the nature... (more)
The Academic Face of Psychoanalysis: Papers in Philosophy, the Humanities, and the British Clinical Tradition
Ever since Freud, psychoanalysts have explored the connections between psychoanalysis and literature and psychoanalysis and philosophy, while literary criticism, social science and philosophy have... (more)
Freud's Art: Psychoanalysis Retold
In Freud's Art: Psychoanalysis Retold, Janet Sayers provides a refreshingly new introduction to psychoanalysis by retelling its story through art. She does this by bringing together experts from the... (more)
Freud and the Media: The Reception of Psychoanalysis in Viennese Medical Journals 1895 - 1938 (Hardback)
This book presents the results of a research project on the early reception of analysis in two influential Viennese medical weeklies, the Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift and the Wiener Klinische... (more)
Psychoanalysis in Sweden: Problems, Prospects and Two Propositions
From the author's introduction: "It is my hope that more reports like this will be forthcoming from different countries, with detailed information describing the present situation of psychoanalysis;... (more)
The Stuff of Dreams: Anxiety, Fantasy, and Psychoanalysis
Many texts about anxiety are based either in the philosophical tradition or within the medical model under the guise of discussions about post-traumatic stress disorder. In the case of fantasy,... (more)
Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis
The fledgling science of psychoanalysis permanently altered the nineteenth-century worldview with its remarkable new insights into human behavior and motivation. It quickly became a benchmark for... (more)
The Development of Consciousness: An Integrative Model of Child Development, Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis
Using 'Freud's Project for a scientific psychology' as a starting point, this book is a brilliant new approach that combines psychoanalytical research with neuroscience. Its aim is to to delineate a... (more)
The International Self: Psychoanalysis and the Search for Israeli-Palestinian Peace
"The International Self" explores an age-old question in international affairs, one that has been particularly pressing in the context of the contemporary Middle East: what leads long-standing... (more)
The World of Perversion: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Absolute of Desire
See catalogue number 26855 for the paperback edition. An original critique of queer theory, from a psychoanalytic perspective. In "The World of Perversion", James Penney argues that antihomophobic... (more)
The Many Voices of Psychoanalysis
The Many Voices of Psychoanalysis spans over thirty years of Roger Kennedy's work as a practicing psychoanalyst, providing a fascinating insight into the process of development of psychoanalytic... (more)
The Letter 36: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Spring 2006
Spring 2006 issue. Cormac Gallagher: Lacan's Viator and the Time Traveller's Wife; Barry O'Donnell: Lacan's invention; Florencia F.C. Shanahan: Erring fathers; Patricia McCarthy: Psychoanalysis is... (more)
The Letter 37: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Summer 2006
Summer 2006 issue. Rolando Karothy: The writing of Joyce; Oscar Zentner: From the Lacan-Joyce correspondence; Colette Soler: Joyce's Nora; Andrew Lewis: The psychoanalytic case history; Stephen J.... (more)
Object Relations and Social Relations: The Implications of the Relational Turn in Psychoanalysis
This book has two essential aims. First, to introduce some of the key assumptions behind relational psychoanalysis to an international audience and to outline the points where this approach counters,... (more)
Evolving Lacanian Perspectives for Clinical Psychoanalysis: On Narcissism, Sexuation, and the Phases of Analysis in Contemporary Culture
This book presents an evolving Lacanian reading of the psychoanalytic theory of narcissism, of the phases within Oedipus, transference, and within different types of analytic treatments. Sexual... (more)
Systems and Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Integrations in Family Therapy
'This intellectually rigorous and generative collection of papers, positioned at the intersection of systemic and psychoanalytic therapy, captures the potential synergy of bringing these two honoured... (more)
Skin in Psychoanalysis
Skin in Psychoanalysis is an important theoretical contribution, revising several authors starting with Freud in whose writing we can now discover multiple direct or indirect references to the skin.... (more)
The Philosopher's Desire: Psychoanalysis, Interpretation, and Truth
This book is about interpretation as it pertains to literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. It argues against certain trends of thought that claim we should do without interpretation by... (more)
The Gendered Unconscious: Can Gender Discourse Subvert Psychoanalysis?
Feminist interventions in psychoanalysis have often attempted either to subvert or re-frame the masculinist and phallocentric biases of Freud's psychoanalysis. This book investigates the nature of... (more)
The Conscious in Psychoanalysis
How do we psychoanalysts, first and foremost concerned with the Unconscious, go about thinking about consciousness? And why should we be interested in the first place? The author's answer is simply... (more)
Derrida, Deleuze, Psychoanalysis
These eight probing essays explore the critical relationship between psychoanalysis and the work of Derrida ("Speech and Phenomena", "Of Grammatology", and his later writing on autoimmunity, cruelty,... (more)
Becoming a Subject: Reflections in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
One of the guiding premises of Becoming a Subject is that philosophical investigation into the specifically human way of being in the world cannot separate itself from investigations of a more... (more)
Freud's Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis and Social Justice, 1918-1938
Many view Sigmund Freud as an elitist whose psychoanalytic treatment was reserved for the intellectually and financially advantaged. This work presents a different picture of Freud and early... (more)
The Janus Face of Prenatal Diagnostics: A European Study Bridging Ethics, Psychoanalysis, and Medicine
Coping with modern technology in the life sciences (biology and medicine) became a major issue for people living in the Twentieth Century, and continues to be so in the present century. Biotechnology... (more)