Cultural Theory and Psychoanalytic Tradition

ISBN-13: 9781412808590 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 324 str.

David James Fisher

Opis

Th e culture of psychoanalysis has many traditions and multiple schools of theory and thought. Th is work presents informative and original investigations into three overlapping areas of psychoanalytic tradition: the history of psychoanalysis;psychoanalytic culture criticism; and the application of psychoanalytic methods to the study of history. In this carefully crafted evaluation of various authors and subjects, Fisher's perceptions are informed by a deep and comprehensive knowledge of the psychoanalytic movement, its interaction with the wider context of European cultural and political history, and its philosophical and clinical origins.

Spis treści

Introduction Part I: The History of Psychoanalysis 1 Lacan's Ambiguous Impact on Contemporary French Psychoanalysis 2 Sigmund Freud and Romain Rolland: The Terrestrial Animal and His Great Oceanic Friend 3 The Analytic Triangle: Freud, Jung, and Sabina Spielrein 4 Psychoanalysis and Engagement: Otto Fenichel and the Political Freudians Part ?: Psychoanalytic Culture Criticism 5 Reading Freud ' s Civilization and Its Discontents 6 Psychoanalytic Culture Criticism and the Soul 7 A Final Conversation with Bruno Bettelheim 8 Homage to Bettelheim (1903-1990) 9 Thoughts on Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality 10 On French Structuralist Theory and Practice Part ??: Psychoanalytic History 11 The Question of Psychohistory 12 An Intellectual History of Crowds 13 Narcissistic Themes in a Psychobiography of Isaac Newton

O autorze

David Fisher