Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
Dreams and History
The Interpretation of Dreams from Ancient Greece to Modern Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
What is a dream?
Dreams are universal, but their perceived significance and conceptual framework change over time. This book provides new perspectives on the history of dreams and dream interpretation in western culture and thought.
Dreams and History contains important new scholarship on Freud's...
What is a Child?
Childhood, Psychoanalysis, and Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This book unravels the different notions of time and history that are implicit in the history of child psychoanalysis and in the clinical approach to childhood. It is based, in part, on topics that have been addressed in the seminar Psychoanalysis and the Child.
Freudianism
A Marxist Critique
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Freudianism is a major icon in the history of ideas, independently rich and suggestive today both for psychoanalysis and for theories of language. It offers critical insights whose recognition demands a change in the manner in which the fundamental principles of both psychoanalysis and linguistic...
by Stephen Frosh
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Psychoanalytic theory remains hugely influential to our understanding of the mind and human behaviour. It provides a rich source of ideas for therapeutic practice, while offering dramatic insights for the study of culture and society. This comprehensive review of the field:
Explores the birth...
Developments in Object Relations
Controversies, Conflicts, and Common Ground
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Developments in Object Relations provides a highly accessible account of how British Object Relations developed in the second half of the twentieth century, focusing on the generation who took up where Klein and Winnicott left off. Complementing and building on its predecessor, An Introduction to...
Hegel and Psychoanalysis
A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation the work...
The Chamber of Maiden Thought (Psychology Revivals)
Literary Origins of the Psychoanalytic Model of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Literature is recognised as having significantly influenced the development of modern psychoanalytic thought. In recent years psychoanalysis has drawn increasingly on the literary and artistic traditions of western culture and moved away from its original medical–scientific context. Originally published...
by Julia Kristeva
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
Julia Kristeva is a true polymath, an intellectual of astonishingly wide range whose erudition and insight have been brought to bear on psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique. Passions of Our Time showcases recent essays of Kristeva’s that demonstrate the scope...
The Annual of Psychoanalysis, V. 29
Sigmund Freud and His Impact on the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Sigmund Freud and His Impact on the Modern World, volume 29 of The Annual of Psychoanalysis, is a comprehensive reassessment of the influence of Sigmund Freud. Intended as an unofficial companion volume to the Library of Congress's exhibit, "Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture," it ponders...
by Eric Brenman
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Recovery of the Lost Good Object brings together the hugely influential papers and seminars of Eric Brenman, revealing his impact on the development of psychoanalysis and allowing a better understanding of his distinctive voice amongst post-Kleinian analysts.
Gathered together for the first...
Advances in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Field Theory
Concept and Future Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Field Theory is a powerful and growing paradigm within psychoanalysis, but has previously been split between various schools of thought with little overlap. In this book, a distinguished group of contributors from across all perspectives on Field Theory examine its uniting factors and set out future...
Erik Erikson and the American Psyche
Ego, Ethics, and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2006
Erik Erikson and the American Psyche is an intellectual biography which explores Erikson's contributions to the study of infancy, childhood and ethical development in light of ego psychology, object-relations theory, Lacanian theory and other major trends in psychoanalysis. It analyses Erikson's famous...
Psy-Complex in Question
Critical Review In Psychology, Psychoanalysis And Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Psy-Complex in Question traces a series of key debates in and against the psy-complex through critical reviews of twenty-five key texts over the last twenty-five years, with an emphasis on recent critical psychological, psychoanalytic and critical social theory contributions to how we think about...
On Matricide
Myth, Psychoanalysis, and the Law of the Mother
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Despite advances in feminism, the "law of the father" remains the dominant model of Western psychological and cultural analysis, and the law of the mother continues to exist as an underdeveloped and marginal concept. In her radical rereading of the Greek myth, Oresteia, Amber Jacobs hopes...