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Écritsby Jacques Lacan; Alan Sheridan
Routledge 2001; US$ 19.95Ecrits is the essential source for anyone who seeks to understand this seminal thinker and his influence influence on contemporary thought and culture. more...
Dream Psychologyby Sigmund Freud; M.D. Eder
The Floating Press 1920; US$ 8.99Sigmund Freud is commonly referred to as "the father of psychoanalysis" and his work has been highly influential - popularizing such notions as the unconscious, the Oedipus complex, defense mechanisms, Freudian slips and dream symbolism - while also making a long-lasting impact on fields as diverse as literature, film, Marxist and feminist theories, and psychology.In Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners , Sigmund Freud, coined "the father of... more...
Intimaciesby Leo Bersani; Adam Phillips
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 12.00Two gifted and highly prolific intellectuals, Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, here present a fascinating dialogue about the problems and possibilities of human intimacy. Their conversation takes as its point of departure psychoanalysis and its central importance to the modern imagination—though equally important is their shared sense that by misleading us about the importance of self-knowledge and the danger of narcissism, psychoanalysis has failed to realize its most exciting and innovative relational potential. In pursuit of new forms of intimacy they take up a range of concerns across a variety of contexts. To test the hypothesis that the essence of the analytic exchange... more...
Inside Livesby Margot Waddell
Karnac Books 2001; US$ 25.58This is the second edition of the remarkable Inside Lives, expanded with a chapter on the last years of the life cycle. It provides a perspective on the relationship between psychoanalytic theory and the nature of human development which has not been available in written form. A volume from the Tavistock Clinic Series, this book traces the interplay between influences - internal and external - which contribute to a person's character strength and sense of identity. more...
Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personalityby W. Ronald Fairbairn
Routledge 1952; US$ 42.50First published in 1952, W.R.D. Fairbairn's Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality re-oriented psychoanalysis by centering human development on the infant's innate need for relationships, describing the process of splitting and the internal dynamic relationship between ego and object. His elegant theory is still a vital framework of psychoanalytic theory and practice, infant research, group relations and family therapy. This classic collection of papers, available for the first time in paperback, has a new introduction by David Scharff and Elinor Fairbairn Birtles which sets Fairbairn's highly original work in context, provides an overview of object relations theory, and traces modern developments, lanuched by Fairbairn's discoveries. more...
Jungiansby Peter Homans; Thomas B. Kirsch
Routledge 2000; US$ 39.95First book to trace the history of Analytical Psychology from its origins in 1913 to present day. Thomas Kirsch has been personally involved in many aspects of Jungian history and is well equipped to take the reader through it's history. more...
Sexual Differenceby Stephen Frosh
Routledge 1994; US$ 39.95This critical exploration of issues of gender in psychoanalysis acknowledges and updates the complexity of theory and writing in this area, particularly the way sexual differences can only be thought about from a gendered position. more...
Maps of Meaningby Jordan Peterson
Routledge 1999; US$ 59.95Peterson argues that there is an empirical connection between what technologically sophisticated neuroscience tells us about the brain and behaviour, and what ritual, myths and religious stories have long narrated. more...
Speculations After Freudby Sonu Shamdasani; Michael Munchow
Routledge 1994; US$ 41.95This collection of essays at the juncture between psychoanalysis, philosophy, and cultural studies questions the future of a discipline which has emerged from the intimate experience of therapy to exert a powerful hold over contemporary culture. more...
Interpretation of the Fleshby Teresa Brennan
Routledge 1992; US$ 39.95Places Freud's theory of women's sexuality - `the dark continent' - in the context of Freud's work overall. This first comprehensive study enables an understanding of why femininity was such a riddle to Freud. more...