Understanding psychoanalysis
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 theorisation and reception of psychoanalysis, the book provides a comprehensive account of the concerns and development of Sigmund Freud's work, as well as his most prominent successors, Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan
ix, 230 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
9781844651214, 9781844651221, 1844651215, 1844651223
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Introduction. On understanding psychoanalysis
Pt. 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
Pt. 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
Pt. 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