Understanding Psychoanalysis

✍ Scribed by Matthew Sharpe; Joanne Faulkner

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 241
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Presents an introduction to the key concepts and developments in psychoanalysis and its impact on modern thought. Charting pivotal moments in the theorization and reception of psychoanalysis, this book provides an account of the concerns and development of Freud's work, as well as his prominent successors, Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction: on understanding psychoanalysis
part I Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis
1 Where it was: Freud's biology of the mind
2 Sexuality and its vicissitudes
3 To slip, perchance to dream: Freud on the unconscious
part II Freud's children
4 Precarious love: Kleinian object relations theory
5 Jacques Lacan: rereading Freud to the letter
6 What does woman want? Feminism and psychoanalysis
part III Psychoanalysis and its discontented
7 Freud as philosopher? Civilization, art and religion
8 Where psychoanalysis has come to be: philosophy, science, society and ethics
Chronology of life and events
Questions for discussion and revision
Guide to further reading
Bibliography
Index

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