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The Essentials of Psychoanalysis
Lost Angels: Psychoanalysis and cinema
This study takes Freud's preoccupation with femininity and feminine fantasy as a starting point and goes on to explore his differentiation between masculine and feminine forms of fantasy through... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Ethics
Reinterprets Freud's ideas on the various psychological issues relevant to morality and examines their ethical implications.
Universals of Psychoanalysis: In the Treatment of Psychotic and Borderline States
An original synthesis of Kleinian and Piagetian ideas, applied to the treatment of psychotic and borderline states, by a psychoanalyst working at the Maudsley Hospital. The book examines both the... (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)
Psychoanalysis and Development: Representations and Narratives
Explores the relationship between 'representation' and 'narration' and how they have developed the language of therapy and theories of psychoanalysis and development.
The Spoils of Freedom: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Ideology after the Fall of Socialism
Presents the difficulties of post-socialist Eastern Europe as a symptom, in which the inherent contradictions of liberal democracy become visible. The author also explores how psychoanalytic theories... (more)
Sexual Difference: Masculinity and Psychoanalysis
Examines theories of sexual difference from a Kleinian and a Lacanian perspective, and the application of these issues in the practice of treating sexual violence and child abuse. (more)
Speculations after Freud: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy and Culture
This collection of essays considers the interrelationship of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and cultural studies, and questions the future of a discipline which has emerged from the intimate experience... (more)
Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: An Encounter Through Culture
This book examines the interface between anthropology and psychoanalysis, considering its historical context and investigating the distinctive reactions of British, French and American anthropology... (more)
Art and psychoanalysis
A clearly written, informative, and stimulating contribution to the fields of art history and psychoanalysis. (more)
History of the Division of Psychoanalysis
The formation of the Division of Psychoanalysis in 1979 had as a major goal a rapprochement between psychoanalysis and psychology. This volume records the history of the Division and the seminal... (more)
The Taming of Solitude: Separation Anxiety in Psychoanalysis
Links the phenomena of loneliness to unresolved separation anxiety. (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 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.
Genealogies of the Text Literature, psychoanalysis and politics in mo
Presents and conrasts Freud's and Kraepelin's interpretations of dream speech, and reassesses them in the light of modern linguistics. (more)
Psychoanalysis and Storytelling
Examines the relationship between literary narrative and psychoanalysis, using Freud's notion of transference as a model for how narratives work. (more)
Young Man Luther: A Study in History and Psychoanalysis
In this psychobiography, Erik H. Erikson brings his insights on human development and the identity crisis to bear on the leading figure of the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther. 288 pages.
Being a Character: Psychoanalysis and Self-Experience
Shows how each person unconsciously invests the ordinary objects of life with particular and private meaning. As each person subsequently voyages through the environment he encounters objects that... (more)
Before I was I: Psychoanalysis and the Imagination
This volume is the collected papers of a leading figure in British psychoanalysis. The book is divided into three parts, which show her at work with individual patients, doctors and marital... (more)
Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Lacan's Reconstruction of Freud
Uses Lacanian concepts to analyze the inner logic of Freud's thought, and provide a bridge between Lacanian concepts and traditional terminology. 165 pages. (more)
Art and Psyche: A Study in Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics
A study in psychoanalysis and aesthetics. 188 pages. (more)
Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Religion: Transference and Transcendence
Argues that religious experiences, doctrines and practices reflect the internalized interpersonal patterns that constitute the self. 144 pages. (more)
Why War?: Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Return to Melanie Klein
Essays on war, the seduction theory, Margaret Thatcher, education, and a call for a radical re-reading of Melanie Klein's work.