Search Results for psychoanalysis

The sense and non-sense of revolt: The powers and limits of psychoanalysis

Linguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist Julia Kristeva explores one aspect of 20th-century culture - rebellion - in this text. She illustrates the advances and impasses of rebel culture through... (more)

Freud and psychoanalysis:

by W.W. Meissner

Combining a comprehensive account of Freudian theory with a synthesis of contemporary psychoanalysis, this volume details the development of analytic theory. The author traces this evolution from the... (more)

Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and the Making of Early Modern Culture

Edited by Carla Mazzio, Douglas Trevor

Did people in early modern Europe have a concept of an inner self? The contributors of this book explore the complicated, nuanced, and often surprising union of history and subjectivity in Europe... (more)

Gothic radicalism: Literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis in the nineteenth century

by Andrew Smith

Applying ideas drawn from contemporary critical theory this book historicises psychoanalysis through a new, and significant, theorisation of the Gothic. The central premise is that the 19th-century... (more)

Vital Signs: Nature, culture, psychoanalysis.

by Charles Shepherdson

Offers a radical new understanding of the role of psychoanalytic theory in contemporary French thought. Drawing on Lacan, Kristeva and Foucault among others, the author bridges the gap between theory... (more)

'It is a New Kind of Diaspora': Explorations in the Sociopolitical and Cultural Context of Psychoanalysis

by Riccardo Steiner

Riccardo Steiner, one of the most well known historians of psychoanalysis has in the numerous papers in this volume traced the relationship between psychoanalysis and the larger cultural sphere with... (more)

Questions for Freud: The secret history of psychoanalysis

by Nicholas Rand, Maria Torok

With the intrigue of a mystery, Questions for Freud uncovers the paradoxes that riddle psychoanalysis today and traces them to FreudÆs life. Nicholas Rand and Maria Torok develop a new biographical... (more)

Clinical Studies in Neuro-psychoanalysis: Introduction to a Depth Neuropsychology: Second Edition

by Karen Kaplan-Solms, Mark Solms

When the first edition of Clinical studies in Neuro-Psychoanalysis was published in 2000, it was hailed as a turning point in psychoanalytic research. It is now relied on as a model for the... (more)

Drawing the Soul: Schemas and Models in Psychoanalysis

by Bernard Burgoyne

What 'shape' is the mind? How can we draw a 'diagram' of the soul?

Some of Freud's earliest writings contain sketches or models which supposedly illustrate the nature and function of mental... (more)

The Feminine No!: Psychoanalysis and the New Canon

by Todd McGowan

Attempts to understand recent changes in the canon of American literature through the aid of psychoanalytic theory.

The Feminine "No!" sheds new light on the recent culture wars and debates... (more)

Psychoanalysis on the Move: The Work of Joseph Sandler

Edited by Peter Fonagy, Robert S. Wallerstein

A comprehensive overview of Joseph Sandler's contribution to the development of psychoanalysis. This book traces the development of the main themes and achievements of Sandler's work, in particular... (more)

The Writing Cure: Psychoanalysis Composition and the Aims of Education

by Mark Bracher

This work examines the intersection between, and proposes pedagogical uses of, psychoanalytic technique for writing instruction. It demonstrates how a psychoanalytic approach offers insights into the... (more)

Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy

Edited by Stephen Appel

This edited collection looks at education through the lens of psychoanalysis and vice versa. Each contribution asks, in effect, what does it mean to be a pedagogue and an educational theorist after... (more)

Psychoanalysis and Culture at the Millennium

Edited by Nancy Ginsburg, Roy Ginsburg

A stimulating and important collection of essays which explore the influence of psychoanalysis on culture and thought. (more)

Approaching Psychoanalysis: An Introductory Course

by David L. Smith

A comprehensive user-friendly introductory account of Freudian theory and other major currents in psychoanalytic thought. It also includes biographical material on the major theorists. It helps to... (more)

Being of Two Minds: The Vertical Split in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

by Arnold Goldberg

From the unfaithful husband to the binge eater, from the secret cross-dresser to the pilferer of worthless items, there are those who seem to live two lives, to be divided selves, to be literally of... (more)

Psychoanalysis and the scene of reading

by Mary Jacobus

Reading involves ideas about inner and outer, absence and boundaries, and the transmission of thoughts between one person or historical period and another. These ideas are the basis for our thought... (more)

Relational Psychoanalysis: Volume 1: The Emergence of a Tradition

Edited by Stephen A. Mitchell, Lewis Aron

A collection of papers by authors within the recent psychoanalytical trend towards models of mind and development grounded in object relations concepts. Introductions place each paper in its... (more)

The Other Freud: Religion, Culture and Psychoanalysis

by James DiCenso

This is an analysis of Freud's major writings on religion and culture. The author analyses the texts and uses theories derived from contemporary French theorists Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva, in... (more)

Adolescence and Psychoanalysis: The Story and the History

Edited by Maja Perret-Catipovic, Francois Ladame

This collection of classic and contemporary essays makes a major contribution to the reassessment of psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of adults.

Contributors:
Peter Blos, Raymond... (more)