Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books
Deconstructing Normativity?
Re-reading Freud’s 1905 Three Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Deconstructing Normativity? brings together a unique collection of chapters in which an international selection of contributors reflect on the fundamental and often very radical ideas present in Freud’s original 1905 edition of the Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality.
The book has three...
Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
Lacan's Reconstruction of Freud
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Law of Desire
On Lacan’s 'Kant with Sade’
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of Lacan’s Kant with Sade, an essay widely recognised as one of his most important and difficult texts. Here, the reader will find a detailed roadmap for each section of the essay, including clarifications of the allusions, implicit borrowings...
by Jay Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 1983
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 1983
Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory offers a conceptual map of the most difficult terrain in psychoanalysis as well as a history of its most complex disputes. In exploring the counterpoint between different psychoanalytic traditions, it provides a synthetic perspective that is a major contribution...
Structures of Subjectivity
Explorations in Psychoanalytic Phenomenology and Contextualism
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Structures of Subjectivity: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Phenomenology and Contextualism, is a revised and expanded second edition of a work first published in 1984, which was the first systematic presentation of the intersubjective viewpoint – what George Atwood and Robert Stolorow called psychoanalytic...
The Analysis of the Self
A Systematic Approach to the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Narcissistic Personality Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Psychoanalyst, teacher, and scholar, Heinz Kohut was one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals. A rebel according to many mainstream psychoanalysts, Kohut challenged Freudian orthodoxy and the medical control of psychoanalysis in America. In his highly influential book The Analysis...
Encounters with Melanie Klein
Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
In Encounters with Melanie Klein: Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius the author argues that her two professions, anthropology and psychoanalysis, have much in common, and explains how her background in anthropology led her on to a profound involvement in psychoanalysis and her establishment as...
A Meltzer Reader
Selections from the writings of Donald Meltzer
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
'Donald Meltzer was a distinguished psychoanalyst and one of Klein's most productive and prominent analysands. He was a very influential teacher internationally and an extraordinary practitioner and theorist as well. He codified Kleinian technique, was innovative in the treatment of autistic children,...
Imaginary Existences
A psychoanalytic exploration of phantasy, fiction, dreams and daydreams
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Imaginary Existences: A psychoanalytic exploration of phantasy, fiction, dreams and daydreams interweaves scholarly psychoanalytic knowledge and extensive clinical experience with insights derived from close readings of great literature in a uniquely imaginative and creative manner, convincingly demonstrating...
Emotions of Menace and Enchantment
Disgust, Horror, Awe, and Fascination
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Emotions of Menace and Enchantment examines four pivotal human emotions. It explores what defines these emotions, how they interact, and how they impact the experience of self-boundary. All four feelings speak to the boundary around the self, to whether we stiffen that boundary, relax it or worry...
(Post)apartheid Conditions
Psychoanalysis and Social Formation
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
(Post)apartheid Conditions: Psychoanalysis and Social Formation advances a series of psychoanalytic perspectives on contemporary South Africa, exploring key psychosocial topics such as space-identity, social fantasy, the body, whiteness, memory and nostalgia.
Insanity and Divinity
Studies in Psychosis and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
How close is spirituality to psychosis?
Covering the interrelation of psychosis and spirituality from a number of angles, Insanity and Divinity will generate dialogue and discussion, aid critical reflection and stimulate creative approaches to clinical work for those interested in the connections...
Constructions and the Analytic Field
History, Scenes and Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
Constructions and the Analytic Field questions the relationship between psychoanalysis, history and literature. Does the analyst help the analysand construct a narrative, or is their task more of a historical reconstruction?
In seeking to answer this question, Domenico Chianese examines Freud's...
Guilt and Its Vicissitudes
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Morality
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
How do psychoanalysts explain human morality?
Guilt and Its Vicissitudes: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Morality focuses on the way Melanie Klein and successive generations of her followers pursued and deepened Freud's project of explaining man's moral sense as a wholly natural phenomenon.
With...