Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
by Alenka Zupancic
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Why sexuality is at the point of a “short circuit” between ontology and epistemology.
Consider sublimation—conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual satisfaction. But what if, as Lacan claims, we can get exactly the same satisfaction that we get from sex...
by Bruce Fink
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
"[A] useful and detailed work for the professionals who want to familiarize themselves with Lacan’s psychoanalytic theories." --APA Division 39 Newsletter
What does it mean to practice psychoanalysis as Jacques Lacan did? How did Lacan translate his original theoretical insights...
The Psychoses
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
During the third year of his famous seminar, Jacques Lacan gives a concise definition of psychoanalysis: 'Psychoanalysis should be the science of language inhabited by the subject. From the Freudian point of view man is the subject captured and tortured by language.' Since psychosis is a special...
On the Lyricism of the Mind
Psychoanalysis and literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
On the Lyricism of the Mind: Psychoanalysis and Literature explores the lyrical dimension (or the lyricism) of the psychic space. It is not presented as an artistic disposition, but rather as a universal psychic quality which enables the recovery and recuperation of the self. The specific nature of...
Death and Desire (RLE: Lacan)
Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan's Return to Freud
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
The immensely influential work of Jacques Lacan challenges readers both for the difficulty of its style and for the wide range of intellectual references that frame its innovations. Lacan’s work is challenging too, for the way it recentres psychoanalysis on one of the most controversial points of...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
What in Winnicott’s theoretical matrix was truly revolutionary for psychoanalysis?
In this book, the editor and contributors provide a rare in-depth analysis of his original work, and highlight the specifics of his contribution to the concept of early psychic development which revolutionised...
Incontinence of the Void
Economico-Philosophical Spandrels
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
The “formidably brilliant” Žižek considers sexuality, ontology, subjectivity, and Marxian critiques of political economy by way of Lacanian psychoanalysis.
If the most interesting theoretical interventions emerge today from the interspaces between fields, then the foremost interspaceman...
The Violence of Emotions
Bion and Post-Bionian Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
In The Violence of Emotions the author marries an ability to introduce the reader to the intimate climate of an analytic session with a passionate rereading of Bion. To emphasize both the empirical nature of psychoanalysis and its extraordinary capacity to engender illuminating hypotheses concerning...
The Future of Prejudice
Psychoanalysis and the Prevention of Prejudice
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2007
Established psychoanalytic/psychodynamic researchers and theorists bring the exploration of prejudice to a new level by examining how psychoanalysis might elucidate strategies that will eliminate prejudice.
Wild Thoughts Searching for a Thinker
A Clinical Application of W.R. Bion's Theories
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Freud, Klein and Bion have provided the most relevant and substantial contributions to psychoanalytical theory and praxis. Klein was very much Freudian and Bion was both. There is undoubtedly a progressive epistemological evolution in their creativity; it will be similar to observe the same phenomenon...
Repetition, the Compulsion to Repeat, and the Death Drive
An Examination of Freud's Doctrines
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Repetition, the Compulsion to Repeat, and the Death Drive—a critical examination of Freud’s uses of repetition as they lead to the compulsion to repeat and his infamous death drive—is in effect the first scholarly attempt to ground Freudian psychoanalysis on the concept of repetition. Like perhaps...
by Andre Green
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
The Fabric of Affect in the Psychoanalytic Discourse is a seminal work on one of the most neglected topics in psychoanalysis, that of affect. Originally published in French as Le Discours Vivant, and by one of the most distinguished living analysts, the book is structured in three parts:
Affect...
Freud, Jung, Klein - The Fenceless Field
Essays on Psychoanalysis and Analytical Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
A friend of Jung and Winnicott, Michael Fordham was co-editor of the collected works of Jung and the first editor of the Journal of Anaylytical Psychology. Freud, Jung, Klein - The Fenceless Field draws together his key writings on the relationship between psychoanalysis and analytical psychology.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Originally published in 1991, this volume tackles the diverse teachings of the great psychoanalyst and theoretician. Written by some of the leading American and European Lacanian scholars and practitioners, the essays attempt to come to terms with his complex relation to the culture of contemporary...