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The Psychoanalysis of Race
This collection of essays studies the seemingly permanent racial undercurrents of society, focusing on unconscious fantasies and identities. The essays engage with postcolonial, political, and... (more)
Hemingway's Fetishism: Psychoanalysis and the Mirror of Manhood:
The author demonstrates how fetishism was crucial to the construction and negotiation of identity and gender in both Hemingway's life and his fiction. 366 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 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)
The Essentials of Psychoanalysis
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)
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.
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 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 Schema in Clinical Psychoanalysis
184 pages.
Linguistics and Psychoanalysis: Freud, Saussure, Hjelmsley, Lacan and Others
Examines the relationships between psychoanalysis and linguistics. (more)
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)
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)
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)
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)