Elisabeth Roudinesco: 7 books
Philosophy in Turbulent Times
Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
For Elisabeth Roudinesco, a historian of psychoanalysis and one of France's leading intellectuals, Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, and Derrida represent a "great generation" of French philosophers who accomplished remarkable work and lived incredible lives. These troubled...
by Elisabeth Roudinesco
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2004
Why do some people still choose psychoanalysis-Freud's so-called talking cure-when numerous medications are available that treat the symptoms of psychic distress so much faster? Elisabeth Roudinesco tackles this difficult question, exploring what she sees as a "depressive society": an epidemic...
by Elisabeth Roudinesco
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
What does it mean to be Jewish? What is an anti-Semite? Why does the enigmatic identity of the men who founded the first monotheistic religion arouse such passions?
We need to return to the Jewish question. We need, first, to distinguish between the anti-Judaism of medieval times, which persecuted...
Jacques Lacan, Past and Present
A Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
In this dialogue, Alain Badiou shares the clearest, most detailed account to date of his profound indebtedness to Lacanian psychoanalysis. He explains in depth the tools Lacan gave him to navigate the extremes of his other two philosophical "masters," Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser....
Lacan
In Spite Of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Jacques Lacan continues to be subject to the most extravagant interpretations. Angelic to some, he is demonic to others. To recall Lacan’s career, now that the heroic age of psychoanalysis is over, is to remember an intellectual and literary adventure that occupies a founding place in our modernity....
Sigmund Freud
En su tiempo y el nuestro
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 3, 2015
La biografía definitiva de un personaje clave del siglo XX que revolucionó la idea del ser humano.
Tras décadas de hagiografías y de condenas encendidas, resulta muy complicado saber hoy en día quién fue Sigmund Freud. Sin embargo, después de la publicación de las últimas biografías...
Our Dark Side
A History of Perversion
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Where does perversion begin? Who is perverse? Ever since the word first appeared in the Middle Ages, anyone who delights in evil and in the destruction of the self or others has been described as 'perverse'. But while the experience of perversion is universal, every era has seen it and dealt with...