Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
Mandela's Dark Years
A Political Theory of Dreaming
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Inspired by one of Nelson Mandela’s recurring nightmares, Mandela’s Dark Years offers a political reading of dream-life. Sharon Sliwinski guides the reader through the psychology of apartheid, recasting dreaming as a vital form of resistance to political violence, away from a rational binary of thinking....
by Catherine Millot
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
‘There was a time when I felt that I had grasped Lacan’s essential being from within – that I had gained, as it were, an apperception of his relation to the world, a mysterious access to that intimate place from which sprang his relation to people and things, and even to himself. It was as if...
Between Winnicott and Lacan
A Clinical Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
D. W. Winnicott and Jacques Lacan, two of the most innovative and important psychoanalytic theorists since Freud, are also seemingly the most incompatible. And yet, in different ways, both men emphasized the psychic process of becoming a subject or of developing a separate self, and both believed...
Freud and the Baroque
Allegory, Aesthetics and Silence in Psychoanalytic Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
In 1892, eight years before the cardinal appearance of The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud published an outstanding brief reflection on a crucial enigmatic perturbation of language, On Aphasia. A Critical Study, the anticipated signal of one of the most daring and lasting challenges to the philosophical,...
by Francoise Davoine, Jean-Max Gaudilliere
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
In the course of nearly thirty years of work with patients in psychiatric hospitals and private practice, Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilliere have uncovered the ways in which transference and countertransference are affected by the experience of social catastrophe. Handed down from one generation...
The Analyst's Ear and the Critic's Eye
Rethinking psychoanalysis and literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
The Analyst‘s Ear and the Critic‘s Eye is the first volume of literary criticism to be co-authored by a practicing psychoanalyst and a literary critic. The result of this unique collaboration is a lively conversation that not only demonstrates what is most fundamental to each discipline, but creates a joint perspective on reading literature that ne
by Emma Letley
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Artist, poet, educationalist and autobiographer, Marion Milner is considered one of the most original of psychoanalytic thinkers whose life (1900-1998) spans a century of radical change. Marion Milner: The Life,is the first biography of this extraordinary woman. It introduces Milner and her works...
Inheriting the Future
Legacies of Kant, Freud, and Flaubert
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2005
This book explores several canonical works of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literature. The surprising juxtaposition of Kant's moral philosophy, Freud's reflections on obsessional neurosis, and Flaubert's peculiar late novel Bouvard et Pécuchet forms the basis of a compelling argument linking each...
Freud and Beyond
A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The classic, in-depth history of psychoanalysis, presenting over a hundred years of thought and theories
Sigmund Freud's concepts have become a part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, conflict, the meaning of dreams, the sensuality of childhood. But psychoanalytic...
Murdered Father, Dead Father
Revisiting the Oedipus Complex
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Murdered Father, Dead Father: Revisiting the Oedipus Complex examines the progressive construction of the notion of paternal function and its central relevance in psychoanalysis.
The distinction between the murdered (narcissistic) father and the dead father is seen as providing a paradigm for...
by Philip F. D. Rubovits-Seitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Heinz Kohut was arguably the most influential modern day psychoanalyst. Because current interest in Kohut's work has focused so completely on self psychology, however, certain aspects of Kohut's thinking, in particular his nonreductive synthesis of Freudian theory, are in danger of being lost.
Prior...
Humanisation?
Psychoanalysis, Symbolisation, and the Body of the Unconscious
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Unquenched desire, the dividing up of the drives, repetition, and symptom are the keywords for the effects that the unconscious, as deciphered by Freud, has on the body. Harmony is not on the agenda, but rather the discordance, unlinking, and arrogance of cynical jouissances. It seems that the discourse...
Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject
Historical Studies in Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Recent scholarship has inquired into the socio-historical, discursive genesis of trauma. Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject, however, seeks what has not been actualized in trauma studies – that is, how the necessity and unassailable intensity of trauma is fastened to its historical emergence....
Requiem for the Ego
Freud and the Origins of Postmodernism
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Requiem for the Ego recounts Freud's last great attempt to 'save' the autonomy of the ego, which drew philosophical criticism from the most prominent philosophers of the period—Adorno, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein. Despite their divergent orientations, each contested the ego's capacity to represent...