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Understanding Psychoanalysis.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (241 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317492955
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Understanding PsychoanalysisDDC classification:
  • 150.1952
LOC classification:
  • BF175 .S53 2014
Online resources:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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