Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

Psychoanalytic theory has been the critical instrument of choice for colonial critics.

Psychoanalysis has always grappled with its Jewish origins, sometimes celebrating them and sometimes trying to escape or deny them.

Did you know that the father of psychoanalysis believed in ghosts, or that Frederick Engels attended seances?

Leading international scholars present novel dialogues between different psychoanalytic orientations as well as between the particularities of diverse socio-cultural and historical contexts in order to offer critical insights which are highly relevant to the current intellectual debates and social praxis.

Literature can have a disturbing effect on its readers.

This book discusses what Jacques Lacan's oeuvre contributes to our understanding of psychosis.

Psychiatry and psychology have constructed a mental health system that does no justice to the problems it claims to understand and creates multiple problems for its users.

Dreams seem the most private territory of experience.

Tuckett argues that most economists' explanations of the financial crisis miss its essence; they ignore critical components of human psychology.

This collection of cutting-edge chapters contributes to the psychology of personhood especially (but not only) as applied in psychotherapy.

A readable and advanced introductory-level text focusing on the ethical dimensions and impact of Lacan's thinking.

Can postmodern accounts of the gaze - deriving from the psychoanalytic theories of Freud, Lacan, Fanon, and Riviere - tell us anything about those structures of vision prior to, and repressed by, modernity?

Dynamic Psychology in Modernist British Fiction argues that literary critics have tended to distort the impact of pre-Freudian psychological discourses, including psychical research, on Modern British Fiction.

Rob White reconsiders Freud's controversial theory of inherited memory, referring it both to Anglo-American commentary and post-structuralist work on psychoanalysis.

This book offers a unique perspective of art and its education in designer capitalism.

Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault are often cast as intellectual adversaries, their legacies marked by differences in method, lineages, and analytical priorities.

In the field of classical studies, the psychoanalytic construction of the unconscious is rarely regarded as a fruitful methodological concept.

In the field of classical studies, the psychoanalytic construction of the unconscious is rarely regarded as a fruitful methodological concept.

Within this important book, Stephen J.

Systemic psychotherapy has long been conceptualised and practiced as brief psychotherapy, in both the public sector and in independent practice, but it is now increasingly becoming a longer term practice.

This book explores the themes within, and limits of, a dialogue between Martin Heidegger's philosophy of being and Jacques Lacan's post-Freudian metapsychology.

This book draws on a unique theoretical framework informed by clinical case studies, Fanonian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, and decolonial feminism, to examine the concept of adornment in African cultures.

Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Family aims to raise a sophisticated and highly accessible debate around the family, self-making and the political and cultural implications of liberation.

"e;This brilliant and beautifully written book invokes a radical reorientation of the treatment of psychosis"e; Juliet Flower MacCannell, Author of Figuring Lacan and The Hysteric's Guide to the Future Female Subject.

Freud: From Individual Psychology to Group Psychology, by M.

In this exciting new collection, leading and emerging Lacanian scholars seek to understand what psychoanalysis brings to debates about the environment and the climate crisis.

This edited volume provides a critical history of psychoanalysis in Brazil.

This book brings together psychoanalysis, clinical and theoretical, with history in a study of remembering as reparation: not compensation, but recognition of the actuality of perpetration and the remorseful urge to rejuvenate whatever represents this damage.

In this book, Patricia Alkolombre explores the desire for a child from a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective, and covers the questions raised in the face of new resources offered by reproductive medicine.

Catastrophes unsettle our safe places within the world.

In a series of overlapping clinical essays-sometimes highly personal, sometimes bristling with theory, sometimes employing experimental writing-Jade McGleughlin upends the ways we tell a psychoanalytic story.

In this unique book, Jason Wright analyses William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job and shows their relevance in clinical psychoanalysis and psychotherapy with groups and individuals, especially while working with patients who have experienced trauma and addiction.

Este libro rinde homenaje a la obra El malestar en la cultura, imprescindible para cualquiera que pretenda ahondar en las causas de la infelicidad humana y que Freud explora al constatar las dificultades que entraña el intento de regirnos por el principio del placer.

"Los caracteres que aparecen en la tapa del presente libro expresan dos maneras de nombrar la política para los chinos.

This thorough text provides a complete overview of the drive in Lacanian psychoanalysis.

This book brings together neuroscience and psychoanalysis to explain the complex interactions between neurobiological and psychological phenomena involved in the development of human attachment and affect regulation.

The declared goal of this book, an extended and revised translation of the German edition (2021), is to show how a unified model of the psyche and body can be developed via insights from psychoanalysis, neurology and computer technology.

This book offers an intervention into the process of decolonization through the re-subjectification of the settler subject.

Jaques presents a totally new general theoretical foundation for understanding the individual and social behavior of all living organisms.

Within this important book, Stephen J.

Affects, Cognition, and Language as Foundations of Human Development considers human development from the three most basic systems-affects (our earliest feelings), cognition, and language.

The Concept of the Individual in Psychoanalysis considers the different conceptions of the individual that are found in psychoanalysis according to the culture in which it operates, and its political structure.

This book argues that Freud’s theory of the traumatic neuroses can provide a ‘conceptual bridge’ between the Lacanian idea of an ‘inaugural’ or ‘founding’ trauma that constitutes the human subject and the more popular idea that trauma is brought about by external events, for example, war or sexual violence.

This book is a psychoanalytic observation of five children's existential encounters in their ordinary life at the nursery.

Analyzing a Long Dream Series provides an extraordinary insight into the richness and variability of dreams, considering over 12,000 dreams that have been recorded for more than 30 years.