Search results for "psychoanalysis"
The Letter 13: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Summer 1998
LATENT FREUDIAN THOUGHTS TOWARDS A THEORY OF NEUROTIC DEPRESSION Part One The Anxiety-Neurotic Depression - Lieven Jonckheere; LATENT FREUDIAN THOUGHTS TOWARDS A THEORY OF NEUROTIC DEPRESSION Part... (more)
Building Bridges: The Negotiation of Paradox in Psychoanalysis
This work gives recognition to the central place of negotiation in the analytic relationship and therapeutic process, and in psychoanalytic development and clinical theory. It examines how analyst... (more)
synchronicity: C.G. Jung, psychoanalysis, and religion
A critique of Jung's theory of synchronicity that develops an alternative to demystify synchronistic happenings by explaining them in purely naturalistic terms. The book's larger purpose is to... (more)
A psychoanalysis for our time: Exploring the blindness of the seeing I
Psychoanalysis has profound relevance for our troubled time. The author steers a course between Freud's followers and dissenters and shows both the strengths and weaknesses of modern psychoanalysis.... (more)
The social edges of psychoanalysis:
This text collects together the author's essays on psychoanalytic concepts. Psychoanalytic theory has had an ambivalent relationship with sociology, and these essays explore that ambivalence,... (more)
Subject to Biography: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Writing Women's Lives
This text examines the psychological and intellectual demands writing a biography makes on the biographer and explores the complex and conflicted relationship between feminism and psychoanalysis. 224... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Developmental Therapy
Many books have recently appeared on a variety of psychoanalytic topics, but relatively few have dealt specifically with problems of technique and with the theory that informs those techniques. It is... (more)
Psychoanalysis and culture: Contemporary states of mind
Provides an introduction to key issues concerning the application of psychoanalytic theories to culture. The argument of this volume is that we cannot grasp the complexity of contemporary global... (more)
Affective Genealogies: Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism and the Jewish Question After Auschwitz
Affective Genealogies is an incisive contribution to the current reassessment of postmodern culture and theory. Elizabeth J. Bellamy examines how the Holocaust and Jews have been represented in a... (more)
Feminism and its discontents: A century of struggle with psychoanalysis
With Sigmund Freud flummoxed on the question of what women want, any encounter between psychoanalysis and feminism would seem to promise a standoff. However, Mari Jo Buhle argues that the... (more)
The feminist difference: Literature, psychoanalysis, race, and gender
Embattled and belittled, demonized and deemed passé, this text argues that feminism in the late 1990s seems becalmed, but without being calm. It is as true in literary criticism as elsewhere in the... (more)
Freud, Jung, Klein - The Fenceless Field: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Analytical Psychology
This work draws together some of Fordham's key writings on psychoanalysis and analytical psychology, including a major new work on the recorded cases of Freud, Jung and Klein, discussing them in the... (more)
Presenting the past: Psychoanalysis and the sociology of misremembering
Psychology is the dogma of our age, psychotherapy is our means of self-understanding, and "repressed memory" is now a universally familiar form of trauma. The author explores the degree to which we... (more)
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)
Resistances of Psychoanalysis:
Derrida argues against the notion that the basic ideas of psychoanalysis have been thoroughly worked through, argued and assimilated in the three essays that make up this stimulating book. He... (more)
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)
Midwifery of the soul: A holistic perspective on psychoanalysis
Examines how, early in her career, Margaret Arden became fascinated by the problem of the gap between theory and practice. The text considers how, as a result, she arrived at the belief that there is... (more)
Subject relations in psychoanalysis: Unconscious experience and relational psychoanalysis
In this text the authors discuss the existence of an interpersonal and transpersonal unconscious - a relational space, which is unrepressed and capable of creativity in making relationships. They... (more)
Truth games: lies, money and psychoanalysis
New in paperback. These essays offer a philosophical and historical perspective on the mechanics, moral dilemmas, and implications of psychoanalysis. The book attempts to provide an understanding of... (more)
Shadow of the Other: Intersubjectivity and Gender in Psychoanalysis
A discussion of how the individual has two sorts of relationships with an 'other' - other beings, other individuals. The first regards the other as an entirely different being from oneself, but one... (more)
The Letter 12: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Spring 1998
'IRELAND, MOTHER IRELAND': AN ESSAY IN PSYCHOANALYTIC SYMBOLISM - Cormac Gallagher; THE HEART OF THE MATTER More Topological Considerations On The Subject - Patricia McCarthy; LACAN ON LAS MENINAS... (more)
A History of Child Psychoanalysis
Traces the history and development of child psychoanalysis from its birth in Vienna to its present status as a thriving discipline, practiced on an international scale. The authors argue that a... (more)
Sexual Subjects: Lesbians, Gender and Psychoanalysis
A theoretical book, seasoned with clinical anecdotes to make the theory come alive, the author questions the construction of certain categories of identity and reference: 'woman', 'feminine',... (more)
Female subjects in black and white: Race, psychoanalysis, feminism
Focusing on the racial dynamics of feminist interpretation, the essays in this collection question such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the universal nature of psychoanalytic categories,... (more)
Spleen and nostalgia: a life and work in psychoanalysis
In this intellectual memoir, Gedo paints a portrait of American psychoanalysis, its popular peak and its failure to face the complexity of its task, and its consequent retreat into schismatic... (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)
Unformulated Experience: From Dissociation to Imagination in Psychoanalysis:
In this text on psychoanalysis, hermeneutics and social constructivism, Donnel Stern explores the relationship between two fundamental kinds of experiences: explicit verbal reflection and... (more)