'Freud the writer is what Joan Riviere so elegantly presents to the English-Language reader'Lisa Appignanesi from her preface to Sigmund Freud: Essays and PapersThis collection focuses in on the set of Riviere's translations that made up the first library of Freud in English.
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A major new, myth-busting introduction to one of the 20th centurys greatest thinkersSigmund Freud (1856-1939), founder of psychoanalysis, is one of the most famous thinkers of modern times.
Popular Great Philosopher's Series Richard Webster expert on FreudA critical reassessment of one of the most controversial philosophers of the last century.
"Gabriela Goldstein y Carlos Weisse, dos prestigiosos y avezados psicoanalistas, intentan en este amplio y profundo escrito, acercar una vez más el psicoanálisis al arte, siguiendo la estela de muchos antecesores ilustres, S.
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Preceding Freuds Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex by more than twenty years, Richard von Krafft-Ebings Psychopathia Sexualis pioneered the psychological study of sexual behavior.
Desde hace algunos años asistimos a un discurso solemne en defensa de la dignidad (de los trabajadores, de los más vulnerables –los ancianos, los enfermos–, incluso de los animales), mientras en la práctica toleramos y hasta naturalizamos que amplios sectores carezcan de umbrales mínimos de bienestar.
In ›Die Erfindung des ADHS-Syndroms‹ wird die faszinierende Geschichte dieser weit verbreiteten neurobiologischen Störung von ihren Anfängen bis zu den aktuellen Forschungsergebnissen beleuchtet.
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The present paper is an attempt to formulate a positive theory of motivation which will satisfy these theoretical demands and at the same time conform to the known facts, clinical and observational as well as experimental.
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The election of an unabashedly patriarchal man as US President was a shock for many despite decades of activism on gender inequalities and equal rights, how could it come to this?
There was a time when I felt that I had grasped Lacan s essential being from within that I had gained, as it were, an apperception of his relation to the world, a mysterious access to that intimate place from which sprang his relation to people and things, and even to himself.
