Search results for "psychoanalysis"
The Freudian calling: Early Viennese psychoanalysis and the pursuit of cultural science
This work is a historical study of the early Freudian movement in Vienna and its contribution to cultural theory. The author explores Freud's writings on art, society, and history in light of the... (more)
The Letter 5: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Autumn 1995
Lacan 's summary of Seminar XL - Cormac Gallagher; THE FOUR FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS* - Charles Melman; SOME SHORT ODDS ON GAMBLING: A PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH* - Rik Loose; SOME REMARKS... (more)
World in fragments: Writings on politics, society, psychoanalysis, and
Begins with a general introduction to the imaginary institution of society and the role of the psyche in racist thinking. The author shows how psychoanalysis, like politics, can contribute to the... (more)
Psychoanalysis, historiography, and feminist theory: The search for critical method
The author poses a feminist challenge to the hidden assumptions within conventional historiography by focusing on the troubled relationship between subjectivity and history. By applying Freud's... (more)
The Essentials of Psychoanalysis
Concerning the Rites of Psychoanalysis: Or the Villa of the Mysteries
Looks at Lacanian psychoanlaysis in a clinical context and how the ancient mysteries of the phallus, prefigure concepts of the symbol, the feminine and the sacred. (more)
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)
Subject and Agency in Psychoanalysis: Which is to be Master?
Psychoanalysis works with words - words spoken by a subject who asks that the analyst listens. This is the belief that underlies Moran's exploration of a central problem in psychoanalytic theory -... (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)
The Adaptive Design of the Human Psyche: Psychoanalysis, New Evolutionary Biology, and the Therapeutic Process
This important new work connects evolutionary biological concepts to modern psychoanalytic theory and the clinical encounter. Synthesizing their years of experience in the practice of psychotherapy... (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.
Linguistics and Psychoanalysis: Freud, Saussure, Hjelmsley, Lacan and Others
Examines the relationships between psychoanalysis and linguistics. (more)
The Languages of Psychoanalysis
This survey of "the communicative repertory of humans" demonstrates the central importance of the theory and therapeutics of the communication of information. It explores modes of communication... (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)
Psychoanalysis, language, and the body of the text
Combining contemporary linguistics and psychoanalysis, this work focuses on how the body emerges in the novel. In particular, it looks at the role that language plays in integrating the body and the... (more)