Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Movements - Psychoanalysis

The psychoanalytic description of the mind's connection to the body, particularly through the unconscious, has made it difficult for philosophy and psychoanalysis to combine. Freud and Lacan argued that this connection is marked by the passion of the knowing subject, and this text explores what such a characterization means and how it provides a key to many contemporary theoretical and philosophical concerns. This analysis of Freud's metapsychology and its development in Lacanian theory takes the theory of psychoanalysis as the means to understanding the psychanalytic project itself....

In The Gender Conundrum, Dana Birksted-Breen brings key psychoanalytic papers on the subject of femininity and masculinity from the very different British, French, and American perspectives. The papers are gathered around the central issue of the interplay of body and psyche in psychoanalysis. The editor sees the positive use of this given tension and duality as the key to real understanding of the questions currently surrounding gender identity. As well as addressing the outspoken controversy over the understanding of femininity, she shows that there has been a more silent revolution in the...

What is object-relations theory and what does it have to do with literary studies? How can Freud's phallocentric theories be applied by feminist critics? In this book, the author answers these questions, offering students an overview of the subject.

Concerns the emotion of disappointment and psychoanalysis. This book looks at the organization of social life and the fragmentation of everyday life, examining issues of the self and identity.

"Psychoanalysis in Contexts" provides a comprehensive guide to the major traditions and trends in contemporary psychoanalytic critique. The volume brings together leading theorists to debate central issues of subjectivity, sexuality, gender identity, cultural reproduction and politics. Accordingly the book ranges widely across the major debates in psychoanalytic theory today and examines the key conceptual changes that have occurred in recent decades. Traditions of thought discussed include Freudian theory, object relations theory, Kleinian theory, Lacanian and post-structural psychoanalysis,...

During the last decade and a half there have been dramatic changes in psychoanalytic theory, as well as in cultural, social and political theory. Psychoanalysis in Contexts examines these changes and explores the relationship between psychoanalysis and theory.
The volume brings together leading scholars and practitioners in psychoanalysis to develop a unique rethinking of the relations between subjectivity and inter-subjectivity, sexual difference and gender power, and unconscious desire and political change.
Psychoanalysis in Contexts creates a dialogue between...

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.

Eugene W. Holland provides an excellent introduction to Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's Anti-Oedipus which is widely recognized as one of the most influential texts in philosophy to have appeared in the last thirty years.

He lucidly presents the theoretical concerns behind Anti-Oedipus and explores with clarity the diverse influences of Marx, Freud, Nietzsche and Kant on the development of Deleuze & Guattari's thinking. He also examines the wider implications of their work in revitalizing Marxism, environmentalism, feminism and cultural studies.

Eugene W. Holland provides an excellent introduction to Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's Anti-Oedipus which is widely recognized as one of the most influential texts in philosophy to have appeared in the last thirty years.

He lucidly presents the theoretical concerns behind Anti-Oedipus and explores with clarity the diverse influences of Marx, Freud, Nietzsche and Kant on the development of Deleuze & Guattari's thinking. He also examines the wider implications of their work in revitalizing Marxism, environmentalism, feminism and cultural studies.

Hysteria was a frequently diagnosed illness in the West through the nineteenth and much of the twentieth century. Today the medical profession has virtually abandoned the diagnosis altogether. However, this does not mean that hysteria has ceased to exist.
In The Nature of Hysteria, Niel Micklem argues that the disease has merely shifted into other personal and collective forms. He traces the history of hysteria from ancient Egyptian times to the present and examines its mythic background. He also describes the involvement of sexuality in the clinical manifestations of hysteria to...

Jean Laplanche is an incisive and important of contemporary psychoanalytic theorists. In spite of the influence of his work over the last 30 years, until recently little of his work has been available in English. This text presents in English many of Laplanche's key essays and also provides an overview of his work. It makes available Laplanche's work on the key psychoanalytic themes of: association, seduction, persecution, revelation, masochism, transference and mourning. Such themes are increasingly influential in the vocabularies of philosophy, social theory, literature, and cultural...

Jacques Lacan's thinking revolutionised the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and had a major impact in fields as diverse as film studies, literary criticism, feminist theory and philosophy. Yet his writings are notorious for their complexity and idiosyncratic style. Emphasising the clinical basis of Lacan's work, An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis is an ideal companion to his ideas for readers in every discipline where his influence is felt. The Dictionary features:
* over 200 entries, explaining Lacan's own terminology and his use of common...

This text brings together authors from therapeutic, academic and social work backgrounds to discuss dependency, anxiety and gender relations within families. Drawing on professional experience the contibutors combine a psychoanalytical and feminist approach to mothering which aims to transcend the polarized and simplistic political debate about women's and children's needs. They also aim to show how such an approach can inform and improve professional practice.

The Society of Analytical Psychology was founded in London in 1946 with the support of Jung himself. With its distinctive pluralistic approach to the key issues in analytical and psychotherapeutic practice the SAP has made a significant contribution to the history of psychotherapy. This text brings together essays by leading practitioners in the SAP today. Students and teachers of analysis and psychotherapy should find within it a fresh approach to many of the issues they face in training. It offers different perspectives on topics such as gender, infancy, transference, popular culture,...

In this text, the author examines Freud's earliest psychoanalytic book, Studies on Hysteria, which he wrote together with Breuer, and Moses and Monotheism, his last book. The essay on Studies on Hysteria reveals to the reader why that book is considered the primal book of psychoanalysis. If offers an account of the birth of the psychoanalytic method and introduces the key concept of trauma - establishing a foundation on which much of modern psychoanalysis has been built. Freud was to return to his original theory of trauma in his last book, Moses and Monotheism, where he developed it further...

Drawing upon a rare and highly original ethnography of contemporary mortuary practices, Representations of Death takes the reader through the medical, bureaucratic, commercial and ritual aspects of death Going behind the scenes at hospitals, funeral parlours, crematoria and cemeteries, as well as holding poignant, in-depth interviews with bereaved women, Bradbury has been able to illuminate the very different perspectives of the deathwork professional and the grieving relative. Illustrated with stunning photographs, this fascinating book makes a significant contribution to the...

Drawing upon a rare ethnography of mortuary practices in the 1990s, this book takes the reader through the medical, bureaucratic, commercial and ritual aspects of death. Making extensive use of conversations with staff in hospitals, registry offices, funeral rooms and cemeteries, as well as drawing on fieldwork conducted with bereaved women, the book makes a contribution to the growing literature in death studies.

Many of the themes which were elaborated in Hanna Segal's earlier work return in this volume of her most recent papers. Two act as connecting strands and give the book its unity: the clinical usefulness of the concept of the death instinct and the relationship between fantasy and reality.

A past mistress at capturing the vitality of the clinical session on the page, Segal shows how the same conflicts between life and death instincts, fantasy and reality, are experienced in the consulting room, reflected in literature, and played out by nations in their attitudes to war.

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'Even paranoids have enemies' is the reply Golda Meir is said to have made to Henry Kissinger who, during the 1973 Sinai talks, accused her of being paranoid for hesitating to grant further concessions to the Arabs. It is used as part of the title of this book to highlight the complex relationship between paranoia and persecution.

The politics of the Middle East, the pressures within Japanese society, the dynamics of the drug scene, racism, and the effects of mechanical thinking in institutions and cultures all serve to illustrate in this book the intimate connections between paranoia and...

The Jungians: A Comparative and Historical Perspective is the first book to trace the history of the profession of analytical psychology from its origins in 1913 until the present.
As someone who has been personally involved in many aspects of Jungian history, Thomas Kirsch is well equipped to take the reader through the history of the 'movement', and to document its growth throughout the world, with chapters covering individual geographical areas - the UK, USA, and Australia, to name but a few - in some depth. He also provides new information on the ever-controversial subject of...