Search results for "psychoanalysis"
The Taming of Solitude: Separation Anxiety in Psychoanalysis
Links the phenomena of loneliness to unresolved separation anxiety. (more)
The Trial(s) of Psychoanalysis
As attempts to 'place' psychoanalysis in relation to other fields of knowledge, these essays explore the relations between psychoanalysis and literary theory, psychiatry, history, feminism, marxism,... (more)
The Castration of Oedipus: Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism and Feminism
The authors combine the disparate traditions of psychoanalysis, postmodernism and feminism the create a provocative, unified and tightly woven perspective that transcends the misogyny implicit in... (more)
Hide and Seek: The Child Between Psychoanalysis and Fiction
Examines representations of the child in fiction, psychoanalysis and popular culture. Drawing on popular images of the child from the 19th century to the present, it raises provocative questions... (more)
The Idea of the Past: History, Science and Practice in American Psychoanalysis
Looks at the different theories of the psychoanalytic past - from object relations, to Lacanianism, to ego psychology. 320 pages.
Hypothesis and Evidence in Psychoanalysis
A scholar, psychologist, physician, and experienced psychoanalyst, Marshall Edelson is uniquely qualified to respond to questions about the scientific status of psychoanalysis. He has written this... (more)
Psychoanalysis: A Theory in Crisis
324 pages (more)
The Problem of the Passions: Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Social Theory
This book addresses what is often missing from discussions of women's psychology in feminist social theory: an account of women as ambivalent, both empathic and engaged, both loving and hating.
The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philisophical Critique
A comprehensive and systematic philisophical examinations of Freud's own arguements for his theoretical and therapeutic enterprise. 310 pages. (more)
Sartre and Psychoanalysis: An Existential Challenge to Clinical Metatheory
Explores the implications of Sartrean philosophy for the Freudian psychoanalytic tradition. The author shows that Sartre appreciated Freud's psychoanalytic achievements, but rebelled against the... (more)
The Essentials of Psychoanalysis
First Things: The maternal imaginary in literature, art and psychoanalysis
This study combines close readings with theoretical concerns, in an examination of the many forms taken by the mythic of phantasmic mother in literary, psychoanalytical and artistic representations.... (more)
The Schema in Clinical Psychoanalysis
184 pages.
Psychoanalysis at 100
This volume brings together eminent U.S. analysts, looking at the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, comparing past and present. The contributors attempt to extend their analytical explorations... (more)
Self and Other: Object Relations in Psychoanalysis and Literature
This text argues for the adoption of a theory of object relations, combining traditional psychoanalytic theory with contemporary views on attachment behaviour and intersubjectivity. Rogers provides a... (more)
Positioning subjects: Psychoanalysis and critical educational studies
Believing that educational progressivism has overestimated the power of rationality, and has repressed any understanding of unconscious mental processes, the author uses psychoanalysis to explore the... (more)
The Letter 12: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Spring 1998
'IRELAND, MOTHER IRELAND': AN ESSAY IN PSYCHOANALYTIC SYMBOLISM - Cormac Gallagher; THE HEART OF THE MATTER More Topological Considerations On The Subject - Patricia McCarthy; LACAN ON LAS MENINAS... (more)
Religion and psychology in transition: Psychoanalysis, feminism and theology
A dialogue between contemporary psychoanalytic thinking and contemporary theology is presented in this text. Light is shed on the interaction of religion and psychology by viewing it from the... (more)
Religion, society, and psychoanalysis: Readings in contemporary theory
A collection of essays which brings together contemporary scholarship on religion and psychoanalysis to offer a social analysis of the meaning of religion. The book presents Freud's views on religion... (more)
Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in Modern Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: A study of Sartre, Binswanger, Lacan and Habermas
This study of subjectivity and intersubjectivity develops an account of the subject rooted in philosophy and psychoanalytic theory. It examines the relationship between different theories of... (more)
Writings on Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan
This collection of some of Louis Althusser's major essays on psychoanalytic thought documents his relationship with Jacques Lacan and presents aspects of his personal and intellectual life. (more)