Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
Immigration in Psychoanalysis
Locating Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Immigration in Psychoanalysis: Locating Ourselves presents a unique approach to understanding the varied and multi-layered experience of immigration, exploring how social, cultural, political, and historical contexts shape the psychological experience of immigration, and with it the encounter between...
Joyce and Lacan
Reading, Writing and Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
What happens when the intellectual giant of twentieth-century literature, James Joyce, is made an object of consideration and cause of desire by the intellectual giant of modern psychoanalysis, Jacques Lacan?* *
This is what *Joyce and Lacan *explores, in the three closely...
The Dove that Returns, The Dove that Vanishes
Paradox and Creativity in Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2005
The nature of psychoanalysis seems contradictory - deeply personal, subjective and intuitive, yet requiring systematic theory and principles of technique.
In The Dove that Returns, The Dove that Vanishes, Michael Parsons explores the tension of this paradox. As they respond to it and struggle...
Freud's Russia
National Identity in the Evolution of Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Freud's lifelong involvement with the Russian national character and culture is examined in James Rice's imaginative combination of history, literary analysis, and psychoanalysis. 'Freud's Russia' opens up the neglected "Eastern Front" of Freud's world--the Russian roots of his parents,...
by Roger Frie, Bruce Ries, M Guy Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005
This volume is the first concentrated effort to offer a philosophical critique of relational and intersubjective perspectives in contemporary psychoanalytic thought. The distinguished group of scholars and clinicians assembled here are largely preoccupied with tracing the theoretical underpinnings...
by Jon Mills
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
The first book of its kind to provide a detailed analysis of the history of the unconscious from the underworlds of Greek and Egyptian mythology to psychoanalysis and metaphysics, Jon Mills presents here a unique study of differing philosophies of the unconscious.
Mills examines how three...
Letters to a Young Psychoanalyst
Lessons on Psyche, Human Existence, and Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Written in the form of letters from an experienced analyst to a young colleague, Letters to a Young Psychoanalyst expands the psychoanalytic frame to include South American, French, and British theory, and examine a wide variety of theoretical and clinical topics.
Letters to a Young Psychoanalyst...
Psychoanalysis and the Concept of a Rule
An Essay in the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Increasingly, people are becoming aware of the importance of rules with regard to the establishmnent of human behaviour. The present-day philosophy of action, following Wittgenstein, talks of rule following behavour, This book takes up the discussion, and indicates the importance of rules in Freudian psychoanalysis. In so doing, the book establishes a link between Freud and Wittgenstein
by Thomas H Ogden
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Thomas H. Ogden is the winner of the 2004 International Journal of Psychoanalysis Award for the Most Important Paper of the year and the 2010 Haskell Norman Prize – an international award for "outstanding achievement as a psychoanalytic clinician, teacher and theoretician".
Thomas...
Outside the Dream (RLE: Lacan)
Lacan and French Styles of Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Originally published in 1983, Martin Stanton has written an intriguing and original guide to French styles of psychoanalysis. He describes the development of psychoanalytic technique and shows how it has transformed the contemporary French literary and philosophical thought and writing, as well as...
Concerning the Nature of Psychoanalysis
The Persistence of a Paradoxical Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
In his new book, Considering the Nature of Psychoanalysis: The Persistence of a Paradoxical Discourse, Gregorio Kohon describes the complexity of the psychoanalytic encounter, questioning the misguided attempts to simplify and/or reduce it to either art or science.
Kohon disputes the contemporary...
Encountering Freud
The Politics and Histories of Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
In this volume Paul Roazen examines different national responses to Freud and the beginnings of psychoanalysis. He examines Freud's work in the contexts of law, society, and class, as well as other forms of psychology.
Encountering Freud includes a brilliant essay on Freud and the question...
The Truth About Freud's Technique
The Encounter With the Real
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1994
In this unusual and much-needed reappraisal of Freud's clinical technique, M. Guy Thompson challenges the conventional notion that psychoanalysis promotes relief from suffering and replaces it with a more radical assertion, that psychoanalysis seeks to mend our relationship with the real that has...
Wish-fulfilment in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
The tyranny of desire
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Wish-fulfilment as a singular means of satisfying ineluctable desire is a pivotal concept in classical psychoanalysis. Freud argued that it was the thread that united dreams, daydreams, phantasy, omnipotent thinking, neurotic and some psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions, art, myth,...