Understanding Psychoanalysis

✍ Scribed by Matthew Sharpe, Joanne Faulkner

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

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✦ Synopsis

"Understanding Psychoanalysis" presents a broad 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, the book provides a comprehensive account of the concerns and development of Freud's work, as well as his most prominent successors, Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan.The work of these leading psychoanalytic theorists has greatly influenced thinking across other disciplines, notably feminism, film studies, poststructuralism, social and cultural theory, the philosophy of science and the emerging discipline of neuropsychoanalysis. Analysing this engagement with other disciplines and their key theorists, "Understanding Psychoanalysis" argues for a reconsideration of psychoanalysis as a resource for philosophy, science, and cultural studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Abbreviations......Page 8
Introduction: on understanding psychoanalysis......Page 12
Part I Sigmund Freud, the Father of Psychoanalysis......Page 26
1. Where it was: Freud’s biology of the mind......Page 28
2. Sexuality and its vicissitudes......Page 47
3. To slip, perchance to dream: Freud on the unconscious......Page 68
Part II Freud's Children......Page 90
4. Precarious love: Kleinian object relations theory......Page 92
5. Jacques Lacan: Re-reading Freud to the letter......Page 114
6. What does woman want? Feminism and psychoanalysis......Page 137
PART III Psychoanalysis and its Discontented......Page 158
7. Freud as philosopher? Civilization, art and religion......Page 160
8. Where psychoanalysis has come to be: philosophy, science, society and ethics......Page 182
Chronology of life and events......Page 208
Questions for discussion and revision......Page 211
Guide to further reading......Page 216
Bibliography......Page 220
Index......Page 229

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