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The Annual of Psychoanalysis: Vol 25
This collection of articles covers a range of psychoanalytical topics, including: self-pity, dependence, manipulation and exploitation; psychopharmacotherapy and psychotherapy; from empathy to... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science: A multiple code theory
The book firstly reviews the historical role of theory in psychoanalysis, and explores the factors separating cognitive science from psychoanalysis today. Building on this, the author presents a... (more)
Tradition and Change in Psychoanalysis
This book traces a line of continuity in psychoanalysis back to Freud and his immediate followers, and describes the major transformations that followed, particularly in the works of Heinz Hartmann... (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)
A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis
A lucid introduction to the clinical application of Lacanian psychoanalysis. The book starts with the place of desire in analytic technique, moves on to diagnosis and the position of the analyst, and... (more)
Cultural pluralism and psychoanalysis: The Asian and American experience
This volume explores the creative dialogue in which psychoanalysts since Freud have engaged the modern Northern European / North American culture of individualism. The focus is on the the ways in... (more)
Listening Subjects: Music, Psychoanalysis, Culture
David Schwarz uses psychoanalytic techniques to probe the visceral experiences of music listeners. Using classical, popular, and avant-garde music as texts, Schwarz addresses intriguing questions:... (more)
Performance anxieties: Staging psychoanalysis, staging race
Looks at the on-going debate concerning the value of psychoanalysis for feminist theory and politics - specifically concerning the social and psychical meanings of 'race'. The author indicates how... (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)
Dispatches from the Freud Wars: Psychoanalysis and Its Passions
Delves into the posthumous disputes over Freud. With wit and erudition, Forrester tackles questions central to our psychoanalytic century's way of thinking and living. 320 pages. (more)
The British Schools of Psychoanalysis: Pluralism and Convergence in the Clinical Setting
This text provides an analysis of psychoanalytical pluralism and a celebration of psychoanalytic convergence. Recently, various psychoanalytic perspectives have become increasingly integrated. Using... (more)
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 religious and romantic origins of psychoanalysis: Individuation and integration in post-Freudian theory
This work traces the origins of contemporary psychoanalysis back to the foundations of Judaeo-Christian culture, and challenges the prevailing view that modern theories of the self mark a radical... (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)
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)
Representing the woman: cinema and psychoanalysis
A study of the theory and politics of representation in narrative film. Questioning current accounts of cinema's pleasures for men and women, this text draws on the psychoanalytic theory of Freud and... (more)
The Body and the City: Psychoanalysis, Space and Subjectivity
This book maps the key coordinates of meaning, identity, and power across the sites of the body and city. Exploring a wide range of critical thinking, particularly the work of Lebevre, Freud and... (more)
Freud's Paranoid Quest: Psychoanalysis and Modern Suspicion
John Farrell analyzes the personality and thought of Sigmund Freud in order to give insight into modernity's paranoid character and into the true nature of Freudian psychoanalysis. John Farrell's... (more)
An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis
This introductory work provides a source of reference for psychoanalysts in training and in practice, with detailed definitions of over 200 Lacanian terms. Attention is given both to Lacan's use of... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Humanities
Written by artists and scholars with a psychoanalytic training, this seminal collection of essays on painting, sculpture, literature, history, anthropology and philosophy illustrates how... (more)
The Annual of Psychoanalysis: Vol.24
This annual of psychoanalysis covers various topics, including: psychoanalysis in transition; genesis of a new psychoanalytic paradigm; and loss of freedom. 288 pages.
An Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Contemporary theory and practice
A guide to the main principles and practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Designed as an introductory text suitable for a wide range of courses, this account presents the core... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Literature and War: Papers 1972-1995
This collection of writings by Hanna Segal shows how the same conflicts between life and death instincts, phantasy and reality, are experienced in the consulting room, reflected in literature, and... (more)
The Emotional Needs of Young Children and Their Families: Applications of Psychoanalysis in Community Settings
Describes the ways psychoanalytic ideas can be adapted and used in a variety of community settings, to help children who are emotionally disturbed or who have been physically or sexually abused. It... (more)
Reading Seminar XI: Lacan's Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis: Including the First English Translation of Position of the Unconscious
Provides the first truly sustained commentary to appear in either English or French on Lacan's most important seminar, 'The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis'. The sixteen contributors... (more)