Search results for "psychoanalysis"
The Letter 4: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Summer 1995
THE OBJECT a - Guy Le Gaufey; THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS - Helena Texier; IS THE CONCEPT OF THE DEATH DRIVE ESSENTIAL WHEN SPEAKING OF TRAUMA? - Aisling Campbell; THE PURLOINED TONGUE - Claus-Dieter... (more)
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)
The Essentials of Psychoanalysis
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 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.
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)
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)
Linguistics and Psychoanalysis: Freud, Saussure, Hjelmsley, Lacan and Others
Examines the relationships between psychoanalysis and linguistics. (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)
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)
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)
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)