Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology Books
The University of Chicago Press After Freud Left A Century of Psychoanalysis in
Book SynopsisFrom August 29 to September 21, 1909, Sigmund Freud visited the United States, where he gave five lectures at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. This volume brings together leading historians of psychoanalysis and of American culture to consider the broad history of psychoanalysis in America.Trade Review"After Freud Left makes a much needed intervention into the historical record, revealing the eclectic and incongruous ways in which Freud's ideas migrated stateside." (Brooklyn Rail)"
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Models of the Mind A Psychoanalytic Theory
Book SynopsisIn an effort to expand the clinical theory of psychoanalysis, John E. Gedo and Arnold Goldberg delineate and order the various generally accepted systems of psychological functioning, considered here as models of the mind. The authors provide a historical review of four major models of the mind: the topographic model, the reflex arc model, the tripartite model, and an object relations model. They then investigate the possible hierarchical interrelationships of such models. Each model is shown to represent a different facet of mental functioning and is thus employable on an ad hoc basis. The models are shown not to cancel on another out but to allow for theoretical complementarity. Gedo and Goldberg apply their theory to four classic psychoanalytic case studies to demonstrate its effectiveness: Freud's Rat Man, his Wolf Man, the case of Daniel Paul Schreber, and a case of arrested development. For each of these cases the authors show how it would have been both possible and advantageous
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Jung in Context Modernity and the Making of a
Book SynopsisThis ia an account of the origins, influences and legacy of Jungian psychology. By delineating the social, personal, religious and cultural contexts of Jung's system of psychology, the author identifies the central role of depth psychology in the culture of modernity.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Reading the Depth Psychologies at Century's End: Review and Prospects 1: Introduction 2: How to Read Jung 3: Psychological Factors in the Formation of Jung's Thought: The First Three Phases, 1900-1913 4: Psychological Factors in the Formation of Jung's Thought: The Fourth Phase, 1913-18 5: The Role of the Experience of Religion in the Formation of Jung's Thought 6: Sociological Factors in the Formation of Jung's Thought 7: The Structure of Jung's Mature Thought: Its Three Themes 8: Conclusion: Jung, Psychological Man, and Modernization References Index
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press The Burdens of Intimacy Psychoanalysis and
Book SynopsisShowing why Victorian fiction conveys both the pleasure and anguish of intimacy, this text examines works by Bulwer-Lytton, Swinburne, Schreiner, Hardy, James, Santayana, and Forster, he argues that these writers struggled with aspects of psychology that undermined the utilitarian ethos of the age.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life
Book SynopsisThis text puts Sigmund Freud in dialogue with Franz Rosenzwig in the service of re-imagining ethical and political life. Santner makes an argument for understanding revelation in theraputic terms and offers a look at how this understanding suggests ways of re-conceiving political community.
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Repression and Dissociation Implications for
Book SynopsisA collection of articles by 26 leading professionals that survey the theoretical, historical, methodological, empirical and clinical aspects of repression and the repressive personality style. The text examines various topics from both psychoanalytic and cognitive psychological perspectives.
£42.75
Palgrave Macmillan Psychopedagogy
Book SynopsisExamining the work of Lacan and Freud, Cho argues that a theory of pedagogy is already embedded within psychoanalysis. Psychopedagogy is the name given to this embedded theory. Through a discussion of key psychoanalytic concepts, as well as a variety of other topics, Cho develops the contours of psychopedagogy.Trade Review"In one of his famous dictums, Freud refers to (psycho)analysis, education, and politics as the three impossible professions. Although taking place all around us, these professions are ridden and driven by an inherent impossibility or, to put it with Lacan, by a real that makes their theory and practice all the more intriguing and revealing. Yet in different and numerous attempts to think through the inherent connections between the three fields, educating somehow got much less conceptual and critical attention than the other two. This is just one of many reasons that makes Cho s book so precious and indispensable. What makes it all the more valuable is that, far from being an attempt to simply apply psychoanalysis to education, it really ventures to think through their inherent connections, proposing many a revealing and intriguing insight." - Alenka Zupancic, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Slovene Academy of Sciences, Ljubljana.Table of ContentsPedagogy with Psychoanalysis PART I: PROLEGOMENA TO ANY FUTURE PSYCHOPEDAGOGY The Unconscious: A Form of Knowledge On the Ego and Other Strategies of Resistance Transference or, When Discourses Shift: Toward a Theory of Psychopedagogical Technique PART II: SECONDARY REVISIONS Wo es war : Marxism, the Unconscious, and Subjectivity Pedagogy of the Repressed or, Repetition as a Pedagogical Factor Education by Way of Truths: Lacan with Badion Lessons of Love: On Pedagogical Love Teaching Abjection: The Politics of Psychopedagogy
£85.49
Columbia University Press Writings on Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisWith several never-before published writings, this volume gathers Althusser's major essays on psychoanalytic thought--documenting his intense and ambivalent relationship with Lacan, and dramatizing his intellectual journey and troubled personal life.Trade Review... tackles topics and problems which are not at all over and done with in the human sciences, namely the relation between philosphy (theory) and (the human) science(s), a theory of historical, non-linear temporality and a theory of the 'decentred' subject... the theses and thoughts unfolded... testify to an exceedingly fertile appropriation of Freud, the long-term effect of which has yet to be assessed. European Journal of Social Theory Splendidly brought together and presented... a fascinating group of historical documents... Revealing. Boston Book Review
£23.80
Columbia University Press The Psychoanalysis of Race
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays studies the seemingly permanent racial undercurrents of society, focusing on unconscious fantasies and identities. The essays engage with postcolonial, political and psychoanalytic theory, as well as a wide range of texts and theories.
£28.80
Columbia University Press The Sense and NonSense of Revolt
Book SynopsisLinguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist Julia Kristeva explores one aspect of 20th-century culture - rebellion - in this text. She illustrates the advances and impasses of rebel culture through the experiences of three 20th-century writers: Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Aragon and Roland Barthes.Trade ReviewKristeva is a figure of far-reaching eloquence. -- Denis Donaghue Washington PostTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. What Revolt Today? 2. The Sacred and Revolt: Various Logics 3. The Metamorphoses of "Language" in the Freudian Discovery (Freudian Models of Language) 4. Oedipus Again; or, Phallic Monism 5. On the Extraneousness of the Phallus; or, the Feminine Between Illusion and Disillusion 6. Aragon, Defiance, and Deception: A Precursor? 7. Sartre; or, "We Are Right to Revolt" 8. Roland Barthes and Writing as Demystification
£70.40
Columbia University Press Melanie Klein European Perspectives A Series in
Book SynopsisIn her first biography of a fellow psychoanalyst, the prolific Kristeva considers Klein's life and intellectual development, weaving a narrative that covers the history of psychoanalysis and illuminates Kristeva's own life and work.Trade ReviewKristeva, a formidable cultural historian and critic, brings a rich mix of data and ideas. Library Journal Not only is Kristeva superbly successful in this elaboration, but also I believe she is sometimes superior to Klein herself in the conceptual articulation of clinical insights. -- Aleksandar Dimitrijevic MetapsychologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Psychoanalytic Century 1: Jewish Families, European Stories: A Depression and Its Aftermath 2: Analyzing Her Children: From Scandal to Play Technique 3: The Priority and Interiority of the Other and the Bond: The Baby Is Born with His Objects 4: Anxiety or Desire: In the Beginning Was the Death Drive 5: A Most Early and Tyrannical Superego 6: The Cult of the Mother or an Ode to Matricide? The Parents 7: The Phantasy as a Metaphor Incarnate 8: The Immanence of Symbolism and Its Degrees 9: From the Foreign Language to the Filigree of the Loyal and Disloyal 10: The Politics of Kleinianism
£80.00
Columbia University Press Freuds Free Clinics
Book SynopsisMany view Sigmund Freud as an elitist whose psychoanalytic treatment was reserved for the intellectually and financially advantaged. This work presents a different picture of Freud and early psychoanalytic movement. It recovers the history of Freud and other analysts' social activism and their commitment to treating the poor and working classes.Trade ReviewHistorians and readers with a grasp of psychoanalysis will discover a gold mine. Essential for academic collections in psychology and modern European history. Library Journal [Danto's] meticulous research and awesome grasp of the movement's early days... give a surprisingly nimble account. -- Nathan Deuel Village Voice Danto's portrait of psychoanalysis between the two world wars does us a great service... We have much to learn from these pioneers, and Elizabeth Ann Danto deserves our thanks for bringing their efforts to our attention. -- Paul M. Brinich PsycCRITIQUES Danto's meticulously researched year-by-year account of the spread of these psychoanalytic clinics focuses on Freud's pioneering, idealistic, socially committed side. -- Christopher Turner London Review of Books A crucial corrective to the view of psychoanalysis as politically inert and socially disengaged. Choice Danto's book is inspiring in highlighting how a generation of analysts sought to grasp the sources of human misery. -- Ritchie Robertson Times Literary Supplement A must read for anyone interested in psychoanalysis and progressive social responsibility. Psychologist-Psychoanalyst Danto's work will take its place as a classic work in the history of psychoanalytic thought. -- William Borden Psychoanalytic Social Work A dramatic story elegantly told by Danto who has written a compelling, engaging and fascinating account of a largely under-researched aspect of the history of psychoanalysis. With great flair she captures the spirit and ethos of a time when psychoanalysts were committed to a sense of civic responsibility. Social History of Medicine A book that could stimulate inquiry about the way psychoanalysis addresses the social world, and its own place within it, to the benefit of the field. International Journal of Psychoanalysis A worthwhile and gripping story. -- Leslie Leighninger Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare A welcome addition to the literature. -- Eric J. Engstrom H-Net A book that deserves to be more widely read. -- Richard Ruth The Maryland Psychologist Interesting and challenging reading for the question of the social impact of psychoanalysis. -- W. W. Meissner, S.J., M.D. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic Freud's Free Clinics makes a worthwhile contribution to the historiography of psychoanalysis. -- Greg Eghigian H-IdeasTable of ContentsAcknowledgments "The Conscience of Society"-Introduction 1. 1918-1922: Society Awakes 2. 1923-1932: The Most Gratifying Years 3. 1933-1938: Termination Notes Bibliography Index
£82.80
Columbia University Press Philosophy in Turbulent Times
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBeautifully written and translated. ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: In Defense of Critical Thought Note on the Text 1. Georges Canguilhem: A Philosophy of Heroism 2. Jean-Paul Sartre: Psychoanalysis on the Shadowy Banks of the Danube 3. Michel Foucault: Readings of History of Madness 4. Louis Althusser: The Murder Scene 5. Gilles Deleuze: Anti-Oedipal Variations 6. Jacques Derrida: The Moment of Death Select Bibliography
£64.00
Columbia University Press Philosophy in Turbulent Times
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBeautifully written and translated. ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: In Defense of Critical Thought Note on the Text 1. Georges Canguilhem: A Philosophy of Heroism 2. Jean-Paul Sartre: Psychoanalysis on the Shadowy Banks of the Danube 3. Michel Foucault: Readings of History of Madness 4. Louis Althusser: The Murder Scene 5. Gilles Deleuze: Anti-Oedipal Variations 6. Jacques Derrida: The Moment of Death Select Bibliography
£19.80
Columbia University Press Rage and Time
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPeter Sloterdijk attempts rather impressively what many academic writers desperately seek and frequently fail to achieve: he writes a highly relevant and incisive analysis of the current state of world affairs by analyzing the role of anger in contemporary global conflicts. -- Ulrich Baer, New York University, and author of Spectral Evidence: The Photography of Trauma A brilliant and conceptually rich analysis of the influence of rage on the development of Western Culture.Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly An impressive, wide-ranging examination of rage in Western civilization... Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Rage Transactions 2. The Wrathful God: The Discovery of the Metaphysical Revenge Bank 3. The Rage Revolution: On the Communist World Bank of Rage 4. The Dispersion of Rage in the Era of the Center Conclusion: Beyond Resentment Notes
£75.60
Columbia University Press Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn exhaustive and fascinating account... As a glimpse into a remarkable period in French intellectual history where politics, philosophy, and literary brilliance coalesced, it is captivating. Publishers Weekly Dosse makes Deleuze and Guattari mysterious again. -- Scott McLemee Bookforum Dosse has produced a magnificently well-researched double biography. -- Terry Eagleton Artforum This is a massively researched and rewarding book that will attract the attention of all students of Deleuze and Guattari. Choice A comprehensive and polyvocal biography on the lives and work of Deleuze and Guattari. -- Thomas Nail Foucault Studies An impressively comprehensive examination of the lives and times of Deleuze and Guattari... Richly filled with biographical and historical detail (and with amusing and often poignant anecdote), Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: Intersecting Lives represents an inmmense scholarly achievement... Essential reading. European LegacyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Betwixt or Between Part I. Folds: Parallel Biographies 1. Felix Guattari: The Psychopolitical Itinerary, 1930-1964 2. La Borde: Between Myth and Reality 3. Daily Life at La Borde 4. Testing Critical Research Empirically 5. Gilles Deleuze: The Hero's Brother 6. The Art of the Portrait 7. Nietzsche, Bergson, Spinoza: A Trio for a Vitalist Philosophy 8. An Ontology of Difference 9. The Founding Rupture: May 1968 Part II. Unfolding: Intersecting Lives 10. "Psychoanalysm" Under Attack 11. Anti-Oedipus 12. Machine Against Structure 13. "Minor" Literature as Seen by Deleuze and Guattari 14. A Thousand Plateaus : A Geophilosophy of Politics 15. The CERFI at Work 16. The "Molecular Revolution": Italy, Germany, France 17. Deleuze and Foucault: A Philosophical Friendship 18. An Alternative to Psychiatry? 19. Deleuze at Vincennes 20. The Year of Combat: 1977 Part III. Surplices: 1980-2007 21. Guattari Between Culture and Ecology 22. Deleuze Goes to the Movies 23. Guattari and Aesthetics: Consolation During the Winter Years 24. Deleuze Dialogues with Creation 25. An Artist Philosophy 26. Winning Over the West 27. Around the World 28. Two Deaths 29. Their Work at Work 30. Conclusion Notes Index
£95.00
Columbia University Press Moments of Uncertainty in Therapeutic Practice
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRobert Waska augments plentiful clinical material by detailing his process as he considers potential interventions. In a move that is all too rare among psychoanalytic writers, he includes even his interpretive failures, supplementing them with retrospective commentary that both elucidates and provides alternative formulations. Even seasoned clinicians will benefit from a volume that merits a place high on student reading lists. -- Nancy Vanderheide, Psy.D., president of the Institute of Contemporary PsychoanalysisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction Section 1. Interpretive Acting Out 1. Containing, Translating, and Interpretive Acting Out: The Quest for Therapeutic Balance 2. Slippery When Wet: The Imperfect Art of Interpretation 3. Interpretive Acting Out: Unavoidable and Sometimes Useful 4. Enactments, Interactions, and Interpretations Section 2. Difficult and Jagged: Imperfect Clinical Situations 5. Kleinian Couple's Treatment: A Complicated Case 6. Failures, Successes, and Question Marks Section 3. The Emotional Foxhole 7. Different Ways of Controlling the Object 8. Taming, Restoring, and Rebuilding, or Sealing off, Burying, and Eliminating the Object: Two Ways of Controlling the Other 9. Two Varieties of Psychic Retreat: The Struggle with Combined Paranoid and Depressive Conflicts 10. Trapped in an Emotional Foxhole: Coping with Paranoid and Depressive Conflicts Discussion Bibliography Index
£28.50
Columbia University Press Jacques Lacan Past and Present
Book SynopsisFrance’s premier philosopher and its leading historian of psychoanalysis discuss the nature of Jacques Lacan’s thought and his legacy.Trade ReviewThis set of exchanges adds significantly to our appreciation of both Lacanian psychoanalysis and Badiouian philosophy. An irresistible 'must read.' -- Adrian Johnston, University of New Mexico Badiou and Roudinesco each contribute an important piece to the puzzle that is the figure and thought of Jacques Lacan. Both the general reader and specialists in either Badiou or Lacan's thought will appreciate this book. -- Bruno Bosteels, author of Badiou and Politics Badiou and Roudinesco agree on the essential: the value of Lacan's thought for facing the ills of our age, whether they be the different ways both science and obscurantism are instrumentalized, the irrational cult of quantitative assessment, or the temptation to flee headlong into psychologism. So many tendencies unveiled in this dialogue as so many sides of a single 'misery of the contemporary world.' -- Laurent Etre l'HumaniteTable of ContentsForeword: "I am counting on the tourbillon": On the Late Lacan by Jason E. Smith Preface 1. One Master, Two Encounters 2. Thinking Disorder Notes Index
£15.29
Columbia University Press Head Cases
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDeftly moving through Julia Kristeva's entire body of work, Elaine P. Miller brilliantly stages engagements between Kristeva's thought and that of Adorno, Arendt, Augustine, Benjamin, Freud, Green, Hegel, Kant, Klein, Lacan, and Proust, among others. Her analysis also sheds light on some of Kristeva's most intractable concepts, including negativity, the uncanny, time, the semiotic, mimesis, art, and the aesthetic. Head Cases is filled with keen insights, rigorous scholarship, and beautiful prose. -- Kelly Oliver, Vanderbilt University By drawing on both the history of philosophical aesthetics and psychoanalysis, Head Cases makes an important contribution to contemporary aesthetic theory and Julia Kristeva studies. As a Kristeva scholar who is also interested in aesthetics, I am very pleased to say that this is simply the best book combining both of these fields. -- Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, author of Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism Head Cases is a wonderfully engaging work-lucid, subtle, and invigorating. It will be indispensable for all readers of Kristeva and for anyone preoccupied with the concept of melancholia as a psychological, political, and aesthetic category. -- Rebecca Comay, University of Toronto Ambitious and widely-read... French StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Losing our Heads 1. Kristeva and Benjamin: Melancholy and the Allegorical Imagination 2. Kenotic Art: Negativity, Iconoclasm, Inscription 3. To Be and Remain Foreign: Tarrying with L'Inquietante Etrangete Alongside Arendt and Kafka 4. Sublimating Maman: Experience, Time, and the Re-erotization of Existence in Kristeva's Reading of Marcel Proust 5. The "Orestes Complex": Thinking Hatred, Forgiveness, Greek Tragedy, and the Cinema of the "Thought Specular" with Hegel, Freud, and Klein Conclusion: Forging a Head Notes Bibliography Index
£35.70
Columbia University Press There Are Two Sexes
Book SynopsisKey selections from the work of a groundbreaking French feminist who thought beyond Freud and Lacan to realize true parity between men and women.Trade ReviewThis is a strong and powerful collection that repays reading and rereading by anyone interested in the areas of sex, gender, and women. -- Owen Heathcote, author of From Bad Boys to New Men? Masculinity, Sexuality, and Violence in the Work of Eric Jourdan Antoinette Fouque played a decisive role in the formation and subsequent history of the women's liberation movement in France. An extraordinary character, a highly cultivated woman, and a relentless activist, she took controversial steps while opening new paths for the inscription and recognition of women in the world. Her formulations were idiosyncratic, forceful, debatable, and provocative. This book is a precious testimony to her thought and action. It will help the English-speaking world interested in feminism complete the intellectual and political puzzle formed by what was called 'French Feminism' some decades ago. -- Anne-Emmanuelle Berger, Cornell University The feminology Fouque advocates here goes beyond feminism, since it triggers drastic shifts in our all-too-familiar worldview. Modernity is her tempo. Movement is her motto. Gestation is her guiding thread for a new epistemology, one of a world in which misogyny is eliminated. Procreation is her paradigm for a new human contract. The quest for liberty is her calling. The will to stay ahead of the game is her way of changing the rules. Sparkling with wit, this story of an everlasting commitment deserves a place in the international hall of fame. -- Laurence Zordan, philosopher and writer There Are Two Sexes departs from the same principle as Simone de Beauvoir's classic The Second Sex, that the feminine is devalued within traditional human cultures. Yet Fouque does not conclude, as feminists do, that it is necessary to align the secondary sex with the primary one. Instead, she accords women their own genius, a genius she calls matricial, a creative faculty that first appears in procreation, the power of life. In the process, the struggle of women for recognition is altered and exalted. -- Francois Guery, faculty of philosophy, University Jean Moulin Lyon A fitting testimony to the dedication and energy of a remarkable woman. -- Catherine Rodgers Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsForeword, by Jean-Joseph Goux Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments Note on the Translation 1. Our Movement Is Irreversible 2. Women in Movements: Yesterday 3. There Are Two Sexes 4. Does Psychoanalysis Have an Answer for Women? 5. The Plague of Misogyny 6. And If We Were to Speak of Women's Powerlessness? 7. "It Is Not Power That Corrupts But Fear": Aung San Suu Kyi 8. My Freud, My Father 9. From Liberation to Democratization 10. Our Editorial Policy Is a Poethics 11. Dialogue with Isabelle Huppert 12. Recognitions 13. Wartime Rapes 14. Religion, Women, Democracy 15. Our Bodies Belong to Us: Dialogue with Taslima Nasrin 16. Homage to Serge Leclaire 17. How to Democratize Psychoanalysis? 18. Democracy and Its Discontents 19. Tomorrow, Parity 20. Women and Europe 21. If This Is a Woman 22. They're Burning a Woman 23. What Is a Woman? 24. Gestation for Another: Paradigm of the Gift 25. Gravida Notes Biographical Notes Index
£80.39
Columbia University Press There Are Two Sexes
Book SynopsisKey selections from the work of a groundbreaking French feminist who thought beyond Freud and Lacan to realize true parity between men and women.Trade ReviewThis is a strong and powerful collection that repays reading and rereading by anyone interested in the areas of sex, gender, and women. -- Owen Heathcote, author of From Bad Boys to New Men? Masculinity, Sexuality, and Violence in the Work of Eric Jourdan Antoinette Fouque played a decisive role in the formation and subsequent history of the women's liberation movement in France. An extraordinary character, a highly cultivated woman, and a relentless activist, she took controversial steps while opening new paths for the inscription and recognition of women in the world. Her formulations were idiosyncratic, forceful, debatable, and provocative. This book is a precious testimony to her thought and action. It will help the English-speaking world interested in feminism complete the intellectual and political puzzle formed by what was called 'French Feminism' some decades ago. -- Anne-Emmanuelle Berger, Cornell University The feminology Fouque advocates here goes beyond feminism, since it triggers drastic shifts in our all-too-familiar worldview. Modernity is her tempo. Movement is her motto. Gestation is her guiding thread for a new epistemology, one of a world in which misogyny is eliminated. Procreation is her paradigm for a new human contract. The quest for liberty is her calling. The will to stay ahead of the game is her way of changing the rules. Sparkling with wit, this story of an everlasting commitment deserves a place in the international hall of fame. -- Laurence Zordan, philosopher and writer There Are Two Sexes departs from the same principle as Simone de Beauvoir's classic The Second Sex, that the feminine is devalued within traditional human cultures. Yet Fouque does not conclude, as feminists do, that it is necessary to align the secondary sex with the primary one. Instead, she accords women their own genius, a genius she calls matricial, a creative faculty that first appears in procreation, the power of life. In the process, the struggle of women for recognition is altered and exalted. -- Francois Guery, faculty of philosophy, University Jean Moulin Lyon A fitting testimony to the dedication and energy of a remarkable woman. -- Catherine Rodgers Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsForeword, by Jean-Joseph Goux Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments Note on the Translation 1. Our Movement Is Irreversible 2. Women in Movements: Yesterday 3. There Are Two Sexes 4. Does Psychoanalysis Have an Answer for Women? 5. The Plague of Misogyny 6. And If We Were to Speak of Women's Powerlessness? 7. "It Is Not Power That Corrupts But Fear": Aung San Suu Kyi 8. My Freud, My Father 9. From Liberation to Democratization 10. Our Editorial Policy Is a Poethics 11. Dialogue with Isabelle Huppert 12. Recognitions 13. Wartime Rapes 14. Religion, Women, Democracy 15. Our Bodies Belong to Us: Dialogue with Taslima Nasrin 16. Homage to Serge Leclaire 17. How to Democratize Psychoanalysis? 18. Democracy and Its Discontents 19. Tomorrow, Parity 20. Women and Europe 21. If This Is a Woman 22. They're Burning a Woman 23. What Is a Woman? 24. Gestation for Another: Paradigm of the Gift 25. Gravida Notes Biographical Notes Index
£23.75
Columbia University Press Love and Forgiveness for a More Just World
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewEngaging scholars in a debate that is situated on the cutting edge of critical theory and contemporary philosophy, Hent de Vries and Nils F. Schott have succeeded beautifully in shifting perspective toward a more totalizing philosophy in conversation with ethics, religion, theology, and literature. -- Willemien Otten, University of Chicago This timely and highly stimulating set of essays examines the theological, historical, literary, dramatic, political, and theological resources of love and forgiveness in the world today. The authors find love and forgiveness to be centrally related to questions of justice and recognition, to the alert and attentive desire to see the world and each other aright. I highly recommend this bracing and thought-provoking book. -- Sarah Beckwith, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Human Alert: Concepts and Practices of Love and Forgiveness, by Hent de Vries and Nils F. Schott 1. Orange Alert, by Haleh Liza Gafori 2. What Love Knows, by Jean-Luc Marion 3. Unpower: An Interview with Hugues Choplin, by Jean-Luc Marion 4. Revenge, Forgiveness, and Love, by Regina M. Schwartz 5. Love and Law: Some Thoughts on Judaism and Calvinism, by Leora Batnitzky 6. "A Mother to All": Love and the Institution of Community in Augustine, by Nils F. Schott 7. Looking Evil in the Eye/I: The Interminable Work of Forgiveness, by Orna Ophir 8. Beyond Right and Wrong: An Exploration of Justice and Forgiveness, by Albert Mason 9. Remarks on Love, by Jacques Derrida 10. To Forgive: The Unforgivable and the Imprescriptible, by Jacques Derrida 11. Thoughts on Love, by Sari Nusseibeh 12. The Passionate Utterance of Love, by Hent de Vries Suggested Reading Contributors Index
£27.00
Columbia University Press Passions of Our Time
Book SynopsisPassions of Our Time showcases recent essays of Julia Kristeva’s that demonstrate her capacious intellect, her gifts as a stylist, and the profound contribution of her thought to the challenges of the present. Kristeva considers literature, translation, psychoanalysis, disability, gender, humanism, and universalism, among other topics.Trade ReviewRanging from literature and the visual arts to psychoanalysis, religion, the question of women, and politics, the essays gathered in this volume deal with the experience of time in birth and rebirth, with the time of events and emergencies and, no less, with the existential dimension of time as opposed to what technologies of sensation are programmed to make of it. In her inimitable and provocative signature style, Kristeva graces her readers with brilliant readings of texts, paintings, sculptures, artists, and political events. Passions of Our Time is an excellent book. -- Verena Conley, Harvard UniversityThe essays and interviews in Passions of Our Time not only thoughtfully extend and develop some of Kristeva's seminal ideas but also brilliantly address pressing contemporary issues, such as changing notions of motherhood, fatherhood, disability, and sexuality, and powerfully demonstrate that psychoanalysis is still relevant today. This volume makes it clear why Julia Kristeva is one of the most important cultural critics of our time. -- Kelly Oliver, author of Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double-BindKristeva's scope is both international and cross-cultural, reaching as far as China, and as close to Western experiences as suburbia's socioeconomic decline. * Library Journal *Amazingly multifaceted. . . . Kristeva marks a new baseline for understanding in the humanities. * The European Legacy *Table of ContentsForeword, by Lawrence D. KritzmanAcknowledgmentsI. Singular Liberties1. My Alphabet; or, How I Am a Letter2. Reliance: What Is Loving for a Mother?3. How to Speak to Literature with Roland Barthes4. Emile Benveniste, a Linguist Who Neither Says nor Hides, but SignifiesII. Psychoanalysis5. Freud, the Heart of the Matter6. The Contemporary Contribution of Psychoanalysis7. A Father Is Being Beaten to Death8. Maternal Eroticism9. Speaking in Psychoanalysis: From Symbols to Flesh and Back Again10. Affect, That “Intense Depth of Words”11. The Lacan EventIII. Women12. Antigone, Limit and Horizon13. The Passion According to Teresa of Avila14. Beauvoir DreamsIV. Humanism15. A Felicity Named Rousseau16. Speech, That Experience17. Disability Revised: The Tragic and Chance18. From “Critical Modernity” to “Analytical Modernity”19. In Jerusalem: Monotheisms and Secularization and the Need to Believe20. Dare Humanism21. Ten Principles for Twenty-First-Century Humanism22. On the Sanctity of Human LifeV. France, Europe, China23. Moses, Freud, and China24. Diversity Is My Motto25. The French Cultural MessageVI. Positions26. The Universal in the Singular27. Can One Be a Muslim Woman and a Shrink?28. One Is Born Woman, but I Become OneNotesIndex
£27.00
Columbia University Press Political Freud
Book SynopsisPolitical Freud considers how twentieth century radicals, activists, and thinkers used Freudian thought to understand the political developments of their times. Eli Zaretsky shows how important political readings of Freud were to the theory of fascism, African American radical thought, and feminism and gay liberation.Trade ReviewZaretsky offers a fascinating analysis of the inherent political ambivalence of psychoanalysis and its intertwined conservative and utopian strands. His book is a deeply interesting and important contribution to debates about the relationship between psychoanalysis, critical theory, and politics. -- Amy R. Allen, author of The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory Much of twentieth-century political thought, ideologies, and movements cannot be understood without grasping the influence of psychoanalysis. Critical theory, postcolonial understandings of race, interpretations of the Holocaust and war, feminism, and the New Left all drew on Freud in both high theory and everyday understanding. In Political Freud, Zaretsky narrates the twentieth-century story with verve and insight and shows how the influences continue into the twenty-first. -- Craig Calhoun, director, London School of Economics and Political Science Zaretsky is one of the best historians of Freudian thought. Once again he shows the social and political impact of psychoanalysis and the central role it plays in the second half of the twentieth century, in the feminist movement, the struggle of homosexuals, antiracism, and criticism of colonialism and totalitarianism. At the heart of this approach, Zaretsky analyzes Freud's relationship to his Jewishness. A remarkable book. -- Elisabeth Roudinesco, author of Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida In this nuanced, historically attuned, and deeply felt consideration of the conflicting political implications of psychoanalysis, Eli Zaretsky traces the ways in which Freud's theories were employed to address the most pressing issues of the past century: war, racism, the Holocaust, identity politics, and the never-ending crisis of capitalism. He shows how it has underpinned conformity as well as fueled critique. Against the current of our Freud-bashing times, Zaretsky makes a powerful case for his continuing relevance as an interpreter of both our political dreams and worst nightmares. -- Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley Readers will emerge from Political Freud with a clearer sense of what is lost and must be recovered in the much-maligned psychoanalytic tradition. This brilliant riposte to Freud-bashers ought to be, as they say, on every shelf. -- Kurt Jacobsen Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture A fascinating and compelling account of the cultural and philosophical impact of psychoanalysis on the 20th-century political scene... [Political Freud] reveals just how deeply it is woven into the US political fabric, both conservative and progressive. Indispensable for historians of 20th-century thought and politics. Choice [A] compelling and valuable examination... Zaretsky offers a very powerful and broad account of how psychoanalysis and twentieth-century culture emerged together, tested each other critically, and shifted in response to the pressures and forces that each aroused. -- Stephen Frosh American Imago Richly researched... and elegantly argued. -- Elizabeth Ann Danto Contemporary Psychoanalysis The book is a resource for understanding what went wrong and how to create a better future. Psychohistory News [Zaretsky] provides a valuable context to help us grapple with the ways historical changes have impacted Freudianism with an eye to recuperating the best of an inwardly revolutionary movement. -- Dan Dervin The Journal of Psychohistory A sustained and convincing plea by the historian Eli Zaretsky for the continued relevance of Freud and Freudianism in the early twenty-first-century world. -- Paul Lerner Times Literary Supplement Timely and needed. Perspectives on Politics A well-documented history worth reading. -- Chris Byron Marx and Philosophy Review of BooksTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Political Freud 1. Psychoanalysis and the Spirit of Capitalism 2. Beyond the Blues: The Racial Unconscious and Collective Memory 3. In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Rereading Freud's Moses 4. The Ego at War: From the Death Instinct to Precarious Life 5. From the Maturity Ethic to the Psychology of Power: The New Left, Feminism, and the Return to "Social Reality" Afterword: Freud in the Twenty-first Century Notes Index
£64.01
Columbia University Press Political Freud
Book SynopsisPolitical Freud considers how twentieth century radicals, activists, and thinkers used Freudian thought to understand the political developments of their times. Eli Zaretsky shows how important political readings of Freud were to the theory of fascism, African American radical thought, and feminism and gay liberation.Trade ReviewZaretsky offers a fascinating analysis of the inherent political ambivalence of psychoanalysis and its intertwined conservative and utopian strands. His book is a deeply interesting and important contribution to debates about the relationship between psychoanalysis, critical theory, and politics. -- Amy R. Allen, author of The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory Much of twentieth-century political thought, ideologies, and movements cannot be understood without grasping the influence of psychoanalysis. Critical theory, postcolonial understandings of race, interpretations of the Holocaust and war, feminism, and the New Left all drew on Freud in both high theory and everyday understanding. In Political Freud, Zaretsky narrates the twentieth-century story with verve and insight and shows how the influences continue into the twenty-first. -- Craig Calhoun, director, London School of Economics and Political Science Zaretsky is one of the best historians of Freudian thought. Once again he shows the social and political impact of psychoanalysis and the central role it plays in the second half of the twentieth century, in the feminist movement, the struggle of homosexuals, antiracism, and criticism of colonialism and totalitarianism. At the heart of this approach, Zaretsky analyzes Freud's relationship to his Jewishness. A remarkable book. -- Elisabeth Roudinesco, author of Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida In this nuanced, historically attuned, and deeply felt consideration of the conflicting political implications of psychoanalysis, Eli Zaretsky traces the ways in which Freud's theories were employed to address the most pressing issues of the past century: war, racism, the Holocaust, identity politics, and the never-ending crisis of capitalism. He shows how it has underpinned conformity as well as fueled critique. Against the current of our Freud-bashing times, Zaretsky makes a powerful case for his continuing relevance as an interpreter of both our political dreams and worst nightmares. -- Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley Readers will emerge from Political Freud with a clearer sense of what is lost and must be recovered in the much-maligned psychoanalytic tradition. This brilliant riposte to Freud-bashers ought to be, as they say, on every shelf. -- Kurt Jacobsen Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture A fascinating and compelling account of the cultural and philosophical impact of psychoanalysis on the 20th-century political scene... [Political Freud] reveals just how deeply it is woven into the US political fabric, both conservative and progressive. Indispensable for historians of 20th-century thought and politics. Choice [A] compelling and valuable examination... Zaretsky offers a very powerful and broad account of how psychoanalysis and twentieth-century culture emerged together, tested each other critically, and shifted in response to the pressures and forces that each aroused. -- Stephen Frosh American Imago Richly researched... and elegantly argued. -- Elizabeth Ann Danto Contemporary Psychoanalysis The book is a resource for understanding what went wrong and how to create a better future. Psychohistory News [Zaretsky] provides a valuable context to help us grapple with the ways historical changes have impacted Freudianism with an eye to recuperating the best of an inwardly revolutionary movement. -- Dan Dervin The Journal of Psychohistory A sustained and convincing plea by the historian Eli Zaretsky for the continued relevance of Freud and Freudianism in the early twenty-first-century world. -- Paul Lerner Times Literary Supplement Timely and needed. Perspectives on PoliticsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Political Freud 1. Psychoanalysis and the Spirit of Capitalism 2. Beyond the Blues: The Racial Unconscious and Collective Memory 3. In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Rereading Freud's Moses 4. The Ego at War: From the Death Instinct to Precarious Life 5. From the Maturity Ethic to the Psychology of Power: The New Left, Feminism, and the Return to "Social Reality" Afterword: Freud in the Twenty-first Century Notes Index
£19.80
Columbia University Press Death and Mastery
Book SynopsisFong reconstructs the psychoanalytic “foundation stone” of critical theory in an effort to once again think together the possibility of psychic and social transformation. Fong complicates the famous antagonism between Eros and the death drive in reference to a third term: the woefully undertheorized drive to mastery.Trade ReviewBenjamin Fong offers the most cogent and compelling case I've encountered in defense of the death drive, showing that it should not be equated with violence and destruction but, to the contrary, seen as a means for individuation and life. -- Noëlle McAfee, Emory UniversityAt various moments in Death and Mastery, the writing is so down to earth as to make the reader smile: it is wonderful to see academic ideas expressed so matter-of-factly, without the usual rhetorical acrobatics. -- Mari Ruti, University of TorontoIn this masterful and enlivening study of the ways in which the concepts of death and mastery have been elaborated in Freudian and post-Freudian social theory, Ben Fong has given us the means to think about human nature and human community now, under conditions of advanced capitalism, without succumbing to the scientism of the new neurobiology or to the social constructivism of recent historicist social and cultural theory. The argument turns on the ambiguity embedded in the notion of mastery: on the one hand, the capacity to engage creatively with the world, to master the tasks of living a historical form of life; on the other, the temptation to enslave, to compel others to exercise this competence in one's place. Fong is able to analyze with remarkable lucidity a complex array of individual and social phenomena by fleshing out the imbrications of these twinned responses to what Freud called the drives' demand for work. Fong makes abundantly clear that drive theory and social theory are strongest when thought together. -- Eric Santner, University of ChicagoTo the vexed question of the relationship of psychoanalysis to social theory Benjamin Fong brings a distinctive sensibility and tact. Avoiding the portentousness and unduly ambitious abstraction of this now overspecialized field, Fong has made the whole subject both newly intriguing, and wholly engaging. -- Adam Phillips, author of Becoming Freud: The Making of a PsychoanalystThis book will appeal to students of critical theory, philosophy, psychology, and social science. There is no other book like it, given the work's fresh and accessible language and its scholarly engagement with ideas that have long waited for an intellectual resurrection. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: In Defense of Drive TheoryPart One: Dream1. Death, Mastery, and the Origins of Life: Sigmund Freud's Strange ProposalPart Two: Interpretation2. Between Need and Dread: Hans Loewald and the Primordial Density3. Aggressivity in Psychoanalysis (Reprised): Jacques Lacan and the Genesis of OmnipotencePart Three: Working Through4. The Psyche in Late Capitalism I: Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and the Crisis of Internalization5. The Psyche in Late Capitalism II: Herbert Marcuse and the Technological LureConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£25.20
Columbia University Press Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences European
Book SynopsisCan psychoanalysis expand our comprehension of social and political life?Trade ReviewPsychoanalysis and the Human Sciences is a significant contribution to the literature. The question of whether psychoanalysis is a science and of its relationship to psychology is very much alive; Althusser's solution was and remains an original one. -- William S. Lewis, Skidmore College Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences is short, clear and readable. Its accessibility and lucidity will appeal to both novices and experts in Continental-style philosophy -- Adrian Johnston, author of Badiou, Zizek, and Political Transformations: The Cadence of Change Exploring the epistemic break affected by Lacan's departure from psychology and its reduction of Freud's teaching to a technique of social adaptation, Louis Althusser clarifies the difference between science and ideology. The result is a powerful defense of the scientificity of the human sciences that manages to liberate their objects from the normalizing function of technocratic ideology and social control. -- Linda M. G. Zerilli, author of A Democratic Theory of Judgment This intervention exemplifies Althusser's conception of the role of philosophy in the history of scientific revolutions and reveals the outlines of the larger project of intellectual renovation within which the rereading of Marx took place. Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences provides a vivid account of the combative intellectual world of Althusser and his contemporaries, with many delightful digressions and personal anecdotes. -- Gopal Balakrishnan, author of Antagonistics: Capitalism and Power in an Age of WarTable of ContentsForeword, by Pascale Gillot Editor's Preface, by Olivier Corpet and Francois Matheron 1. The Place of Psychoanalysis in the Human Sciences 2. Psychoanalysis and Psychology Notes Index
£63.00
Columbia University Press Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences
Book SynopsisCan psychoanalysis expand our comprehension of social and political life?Trade ReviewPsychoanalysis and the Human Sciences is a significant contribution to the literature. The question of whether psychoanalysis is a science and of its relationship to psychology is very much alive; Althusser's solution was and remains an original one. -- William S. Lewis, Skidmore College Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences is short, clear and readable. Its accessibility and lucidity will appeal to both novices and experts in Continental-style philosophy -- Adrian Johnston, author of Badiou, Zizek, and Political Transformations: The Cadence of Change Exploring the epistemic break affected by Lacan's departure from psychology and its reduction of Freud's teaching to a technique of social adaptation, Louis Althusser clarifies the difference between science and ideology. The result is a powerful defense of the scientificity of the human sciences that manages to liberate their objects from the normalizing function of technocratic ideology and social control. -- Linda M. G. Zerilli, author of A Democratic Theory of Judgment This intervention exemplifies Althusser's conception of the role of philosophy in the history of scientific revolutions and reveals the outlines of the larger project of intellectual renovation within which the rereading of Marx took place. Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences provides a vivid account of the combative intellectual world of Althusser and his contemporaries, with many delightful digressions and personal anecdotes. -- Gopal Balakrishnan, author of Antagonistics: Capitalism and Power in an Age of WarTable of ContentsForeword, by Pascale Gillot Editor's Preface, by Olivier Corpet and Francois Matheron 1. The Place of Psychoanalysis in the Human Sciences 2. Psychoanalysis and Psychology Notes Index
£19.80
Columbia University Press Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings
Book SynopsisMari Ruti combines theoretical reflection, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal anecdotes to analyze the prevalence of bad feelings in everyday life. Proceeding from a playful engagement with Freud’s idea of penis envy, Ruti fans out to a broader consideration of neoliberal pragmatism and a trenchant critique of gender relations.Trade ReviewI returned to university as an adult to audit a course by Mari Ruti, as I have long been a fan of her writing. This book returns me to the joys of being her student, of hearing her lecture, of her lucid and lively intelligence which is grounded in lived experience and is open and probing in its analysis. I always left her classes with a renewed and expansive feeling about life and the human situation, and this book gives me the same feelings of liberty, outrage, excitement, and possibility. -- Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?Mari Ruti is a treasure—equal parts learned, generous, and wise. Whether diagnosing and naming American culture’s ‘gender obsession disorder’ or unpacking its absurd fixation on marriage, she puts the unspoken ailments of our everyday into words, and brings us that much closer to finding a cure. -- Kate Bolick, New York Times bestselling author of Spinster: Making a Life of One's OwnMari Ruti's Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings is truly a unique book. Seamlessly weaving important concerns from recent queer and feminist theory into a quasi-autobiographical, quasi‐polemical fabric, it addresses crucial issues that permeate our daily lives in the twenty-first century. Ruti's book moves from the large‐scale to the intimate and back again, engaging both Western societies in general and specific instances of discomfort within their confines. -- Gail M. Newman, Williams CollegeMari Ruti’s Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings brings the reader into an intimate conversation with its author, eliciting outright laughter, deep compassion, even heartbreak, and many wincing nods of oh yeah, #MeToo recognition. Fueled by a spirited appreciation of bad feelings and an affirming love of Lacan and language, Ruti deftly turns penis envy on its head into a feisty, feminist source of political agency. -- Jill Gentile, author of Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of DesireThrough an intimate portrait of Mari Ruti’s emotional landscape we encounter the phallic predicaments of everyday life. Why the penis, we may ask? This book moves through psychoanalytic theory like fire in grass. Her ethical hope is that in taking on the full range of bad feelings, we may finally know what can be enough! -- Jamieson Webster, author of The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis[Ruti] rescues penis envy from Freud's ludicrous literalism and feminism's merry spoofing. Readers versed in critical theory, a field renowned for its obscurantist prose, will find her book remarkably lucid. -- Carol Tavris * Times Literary Supplement *This is a gutsy, original foray into feminist theory, at once memoirish, polemical and even self-helpful, just the book for anyone up for an intellectual bone to gnaw on. -- Sarah Murdoch * The Toronto Star *A delightful book that spills over with insights into the everyday suffering that these neoliberal times produce in so many of us. * Hypatia *Ruti’s Penis Envy might resonate particularly with young women who are caught up in the groundswell of the #metoo movement, and also set somewhat adrift by it. -- Ronjaunee Chatterjee * ASAP/J *Ruti offers lived experiences as well as cogent readings of Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan, to make her case for how feelings of inadequacy are culturally reproduced, rather than biologically determined. . . .[Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings] invites discussion among men and women, the repressed and the celebrated, as a way of correcting fetishistic acceptance of phallic primacy. * Library Journal *Ruti interweaves theoretical insight, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal experience to lift the lid on the prevalence of bad feelings in contemporary everyday life. Emanating from a playful engagement with Freud’s idea of penis envy, Ruti’s autotheoretical commentary fans out to a broader consideration of neoliberal pragmatism. * Public Seminar *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The Creed of Pragmatism2. The Rationalization of Intimacy3. The Obsessions of Gender4. The Reinvention of Heteropatriarchy5. The Specificity of Desire6. The Age of AnxietyConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£69.26
Columbia University Press What Is Sexual Difference
Book SynopsisThis book brings together leading scholars to consider the philosophical implications of Luce Irigaray’s writing on sexual difference, particularly for issues of gender and race.Trade ReviewWhat is Sexual Difference? thinks with and against Luce Irigaray in a new and invigorating way. Posing the fundamental question as to what sexual difference is opens up a range of possibilities for reading Irigaray beyond the oppositional attitudes of the essentialism question. Essays from a diversity of perspectives consider Irigaray in relation to colonialism, race, ecological questions, and gender identity. The inclusion of essays that read Irigaray in the context of trans philosophy and the critique of cissexism are an especially welcome contribution. -- Elaine P. Miller, author of Head Cases: Julia Kristeva on Philosophy and Art in Depressed TimesThis is a timely and impressive re-examination of Luce Irigaray's influential ontological philosophy. By explicitly placing Irigaray's thinking within our pressing contemporary concerns with new, and returning, political, social, and environmental crises, the volume examines how 'sexual difference' constructs lived experience for/by/with diverse communities in affirmative, transversal, and specific ways. Its four sections address the capacity of writing about colonial, racial, sexual, or migrational issues through sexual difference, in order to suggest affirmative and ethical relations or subjectivities. As such, Irigaray's thinking may help enable us to re-think what it means to live together, at times and in places, so deeply constituted by societal, political, and environmental inequity and uncertainty. -- Peg Rawes, author of Relational Architectural Ecologies: Architecture, Nature and SubjectivityThis rich collection shows that Irigaray's philosophy of sexual difference remains fruitful and important. Engaging with ontology, essentialism, the sex/gender distinction, trans identities, colonialism, critical race theory, nature and ecology, and new materialisms, the authors interpret and take forward the idea of sexual difference creatively. They bring out many generative resonances between Irigaray's work and contemporary critical thought. -- Alison Stone, author of Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual DifferenceThe text that you hold, What is Sexual Difference?, beautifully captures the constitutive dynamism, dialectical and conceptual generativity, and deep openness that is reflective of the ongoing work of Luce Irigaray. The engaging and critically fecund voices and discursive framings within the text precisely reflect the phenomenon of wonder as postponement vis-à-vis the meaning of sexual difference. The text embodies a conceptual excess that resists closure regarding the work of Irigaray but does not sacrifice the necessity to think with her. Indeed, it is this process of thinking with Irigaray that disrupts autarchic myths of univocal meaning, and interpretive hegemony regarding her work. It is clear to me that the spirit and passion of Irigarayan wonder (as a mode of mourning) imbues this text. In this way, Rawlinson and Sares have fashioned a polyvocal philosophical site that refuses (as it should) to suit us totally and functions as a critically engaging textual advent. -- George Yancy, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy, Emory UniversityTable of ContentsForeword, by Elizabeth GroszList of Abbreviations (Works by Irigaray)Introduction: Irigaray and the Question of Sexual Difference, by James Sares and Mary C. RawlinsonPart I: The Ontology of Sexual Difference1. The Ontological Negativity of Sexual Difference, by James Sares2. Opening Hegel’s Autological Circle: Irigaray and the Metaphysics of Sexual Difference, by Mary C. Rawlinson3. One, Two, Many? Sexual Difference and the Problem of Universals, by Stephen D. Seely4. Returning to Irigaray’s Radical Materialism: Sexuate Difference, Ontology, and Bodies of Water, by Laura RobertsPart II: Sexual Difference Beyond Sex/Gender5. Life Itself and Sexual Difference: Nature and Culture, by Ruthanne Crapo Kim6. Sexuation as a Frame for Human Becoming: Reading a “Plastic” Essence in Irigaray’s Philosophy, by Belinda Eslick7. Looking Back at “This Sex Which Is Not One”: Post-deconstructive New Materialisms and Their (Sexual) Difference, by Penelope DeutscherPart III: Sexuate Nature and Subjectivity8. An Uncontainable Subject: Thinking Feminine Sexuate Subjectivity with Irigaray, by Jennifer Carter9. Male Re-imaginings: From the Ontology of the Anal Toward a Phenomenology of Fluidity, by Ovidiu Anemțoaicei10. Sexual Difference as Qualitative Becoming: Irigaray Beyond Cissexism?, by Oli Stephano11. An Onto-ethics of Transsexual Difference, by Mitchell Damian MurtaghPart IV: Placing Sexual Difference12. Sexuate Difference in the Black Atlantic: Reading Irigaray with Hartman, by Rachel Jones13. Bloodshed: Kinship as a Site of Violence in Irigaray and Spillers, by Sabrina L. Hom14. Toward a Sexuate Jurisprudence and on the “Second Rape” of Law, by Yvette Russell15. Place Thinking with Irigaray and Neidjie, by Rebecca HillPart V: Back to the Future of Sexual Difference16. Reading Speculum Again: Narrative, Optics, Time, by Emanuela Bianchi17. Indebtedness: A Sexuate Malaise, by Iván Hofman18. Mysterics: Extinction and Emptiness, by Lynne HufferList of ContributorsIndex
£105.30
Columbia University Press What Is Sexual Difference
Book SynopsisThis book brings together leading scholars to consider the philosophical implications of Luce Irigaray’s writing on sexual difference, particularly for issues of gender and race.Trade ReviewWhat is Sexual Difference? thinks with and against Luce Irigaray in a new and invigorating way. Posing the fundamental question as to what sexual difference is opens up a range of possibilities for reading Irigaray beyond the oppositional attitudes of the essentialism question. Essays from a diversity of perspectives consider Irigaray in relation to colonialism, race, ecological questions, and gender identity. The inclusion of essays that read Irigaray in the context of trans philosophy and the critique of cissexism are an especially welcome contribution. -- Elaine P. Miller, author of Head Cases: Julia Kristeva on Philosophy and Art in Depressed TimesThis is a timely and impressive re-examination of Luce Irigaray's influential ontological philosophy. By explicitly placing Irigaray's thinking within our pressing contemporary concerns with new, and returning, political, social, and environmental crises, the volume examines how 'sexual difference' constructs lived experience for/by/with diverse communities in affirmative, transversal, and specific ways. Its four sections address the capacity of writing about colonial, racial, sexual, or migrational issues through sexual difference, in order to suggest affirmative and ethical relations or subjectivities. As such, Irigaray's thinking may help enable us to re-think what it means to live together, at times and in places, so deeply constituted by societal, political, and environmental inequity and uncertainty. -- Peg Rawes, author of Relational Architectural Ecologies: Architecture, Nature and SubjectivityThis rich collection shows that Irigaray's philosophy of sexual difference remains fruitful and important. Engaging with ontology, essentialism, the sex/gender distinction, trans identities, colonialism, critical race theory, nature and ecology, and new materialisms, the authors interpret and take forward the idea of sexual difference creatively. They bring out many generative resonances between Irigaray's work and contemporary critical thought. -- Alison Stone, author of Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual DifferenceThe text that you hold, What is Sexual Difference?, beautifully captures the constitutive dynamism, dialectical and conceptual generativity, and deep openness that is reflective of the ongoing work of Luce Irigaray. The engaging and critically fecund voices and discursive framings within the text precisely reflect the phenomenon of wonder as postponement vis-à-vis the meaning of sexual difference. The text embodies a conceptual excess that resists closure regarding the work of Irigaray but does not sacrifice the necessity to think with her. Indeed, it is this process of thinking with Irigaray that disrupts autarchic myths of univocal meaning, and interpretive hegemony regarding her work. It is clear to me that the spirit and passion of Irigarayan wonder (as a mode of mourning) imbues this text. In this way, Rawlinson and Sares have fashioned a polyvocal philosophical site that refuses (as it should) to suit us totally and functions as a critically engaging textual advent. -- George Yancy, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy, Emory UniversityTable of ContentsForeword, by Elizabeth GroszList of Abbreviations (Works by Irigaray)Introduction: Irigaray and the Question of Sexual Difference, by James Sares and Mary C. RawlinsonPart I: The Ontology of Sexual Difference1. The Ontological Negativity of Sexual Difference, by James Sares2. Opening Hegel’s Autological Circle: Irigaray and the Metaphysics of Sexual Difference, by Mary C. Rawlinson3. One, Two, Many? Sexual Difference and the Problem of Universals, by Stephen D. Seely4. Returning to Irigaray’s Radical Materialism: Sexuate Difference, Ontology, and Bodies of Water, by Laura RobertsPart II: Sexual Difference Beyond Sex/Gender5. Life Itself and Sexual Difference: Nature and Culture, by Ruthanne Crapo Kim6. Sexuation as a Frame for Human Becoming: Reading a “Plastic” Essence in Irigaray’s Philosophy, by Belinda Eslick7. Looking Back at “This Sex Which Is Not One”: Post-deconstructive New Materialisms and Their (Sexual) Difference, by Penelope DeutscherPart III: Sexuate Nature and Subjectivity8. An Uncontainable Subject: Thinking Feminine Sexuate Subjectivity with Irigaray, by Jennifer Carter9. Male Re-imaginings: From the Ontology of the Anal Toward a Phenomenology of Fluidity, by Ovidiu Anemțoaicei10. Sexual Difference as Qualitative Becoming: Irigaray Beyond Cissexism?, by Oli Stephano11. An Onto-ethics of Transsexual Difference, by Mitchell Damian MurtaghPart IV: Placing Sexual Difference12. Sexuate Difference in the Black Atlantic: Reading Irigaray with Hartman, by Rachel Jones13. Bloodshed: Kinship as a Site of Violence in Irigaray and Spillers, by Sabrina L. Hom14. Toward a Sexuate Jurisprudence and on the “Second Rape” of Law, by Yvette Russell15. Place Thinking with Irigaray and Neidjie, by Rebecca HillPart V: Back to the Future of Sexual Difference16. Reading Speculum Again: Narrative, Optics, Time, by Emanuela Bianchi17. Indebtedness: A Sexuate Malaise, by Iván Hofman18. Mysterics: Extinction and Emptiness, by Lynne HufferList of ContributorsIndex
£28.50
Longleaf - Univ of Notre Dame Du Lac Freud Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisCombining a comprehensive account of Freudian theory with a synthesis of contemporary psychoanalysis, this volume details the development of analytic theory. The author traces this evolution from the earliest stages of Freud's psychoanalytic thinking to developments such as relations theory.Trade Review“Meissner summarizes the findings and theories of psychoanalysis in a contemporary context while emphasizing significant historical roots. He does so in a comprehensive way, covering and evaluating many important trends and theoretical perspectives. His book is thus an excellent compendium of many classical and modern views.” —Psychoanalytic Quarterly“Meissner (Boston College) offers one of the best summaries available of the development of Freud’s thought and of post-Freudian psychoanalytic developments. It is more advanced and more comprehensive in treating Freud than Raymond Francher’s Psychoanalytic Psychology: The Development of Freud’s Thought (CH, Mar’64) and David Stafford-Clark’s What Freud Really Said (CH,Oct’67) ... Meissner’s is now the book to recommend to upper-division undergraduates through faculty for a comprehensive survey of psychoanalytic thought.” —Choice“This relatively short book is really a primer on psychoanalysis, along the lines of Brenner’s (1955) and Waelder’s (1960) classic texts. Although similar to these books in offering an overview and explanation of Freud’s theories, it has the advantage of summarizing the post-Freudian development of psychoanalysis as well, particularly recent thinking. . . . an excellent resource for teaching. . . . The main strength of this book is that it provides a comprehensive yet succinct overview and critique of various schools of thought within psychoanalysis by someone who has spent a good part of his life thinking and writing about it.” —American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry“[A] useful introductory manual on Freud’s basic theories and a brief overview of his psychoanalytic technique. [A]n interesting, informative, and readable survey of the basic tenets of psychoanalytic theory from a classical, scientific perspective.” —Journal of Phenomenological Psychology“Meissner’s Freud and Psychoanalysis gives a thorough and balanced view of its topic and renders difficult and complex material accessible an even inviting to the neophyte.” —Freud Studies“Throughout the book, Meissner presents his complex material in clear, judiciously chosen language which, whilst often laden with jargon, is almost always accessible and intelligible. At his best, Meissner’s exposition of Freud is genuinely illuminating and stimulating.” —The Heythrop Journal
£70.55
University of Notre Dame Press Freud and Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisOne hundred years after the birth of psychoanalysis, renowned scholar W. W. Meissner combines a comprehensive account of the evolution of Freud's thought with a synthesis of contemporary psychoanalytic theory that includes the contributions of Margaret Mahler and Erik Erikson, as well as those of Heinz Hartmann, Heinz Kohut, Otto Kernberg, Ronald Fairbairn, Donald Winnicott, and Anna Freud.Dr. Meissner details the development of psychoanalytic theory, tracing its evolution from the earliest stages of Freud's thinking to recent developments such as object relations theory and self-psychology. A chapter on psychoanalytic therapy completes this unique and essential volume.Freud and Psychoanalysis was originally published as part of a reference work addressed to psychiatrists. The University of Notre Dame Press edition of this classic study makes it available for the first time to a wider audience. The only contemporary work on Freud and the field he founded writtTrade Review“Meissner summarizes the findings and theories of psychoanalysis in a contemporary context while emphasizing significant historical roots. He does so in a comprehensive way, covering and evaluating many important trends and theoretical perspectives. His book is thus an excellent compendium of many classical and modern views.” —Psychoanalytic Quarterly“Meissner (Boston College) offers one of the best summaries available of the development of Freud’s thought and of post-Freudian psychoanalytic developments. It is more advanced and more comprehensive in treating Freud than Raymond Francher’s Psychoanalytic Psychology: The Development of Freud’s Thought (CH, Mar’64) and David Stafford-Clark’s What Freud Really Said (CH,Oct’67) ... Meissner’s is now the book to recommend to upper-division undergraduates through faculty for a comprehensive survey of psychoanalytic thought.” —Choice“This relatively short book is really a primer on psychoanalysis, along the lines of Brenner’s (1955) and Waelder’s (1960) classic texts. Although similar to these books in offering an overview and explanation of Freud’s theories, it has the advantage of summarizing the post-Freudian development of psychoanalysis as well, particularly recent thinking. . . . an excellent resource for teaching. . . . The main strength of this book is that it provides a comprehensive yet succinct overview and critique of various schools of thought within psychoanalysis by someone who has spent a good part of his life thinking and writing about it.” —American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry“[A] useful introductory manual on Freud’s basic theories and a brief overview of his psychoanalytic technique. [A]n interesting, informative, and readable survey of the basic tenets of psychoanalytic theory from a classical, scientific perspective.” —Journal of Phenomenological Psychology“Meissner’s Freud and Psychoanalysis gives a thorough and balanced view of its topic and renders difficult and complex material accessible an even inviting to the neophyte.” —Freud Studies“Throughout the book, Meissner presents his complex material in clear, judiciously chosen language which, whilst often laden with jargon, is almost always accessible and intelligible. At his best, Meissner’s exposition of Freud is genuinely illuminating and stimulating.” —The Heythrop Journal
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Yale University Press The Psychoanalytic Theories of Development
Book SynopsisThe authors of this text critically review the psychoanalytic literature on human development and provide an original developmental theory, one that examines psychosexual development in the context of other simultaneously evolving systems - emotional, behavioural, cognitive and social.
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WW Norton & Co Symptom Analysis
Book SynopsisDemonstrates that a minor variation of Freud's trauma theory, known as brief therapy, can be seen as the core of all major modern therapies, from behaviour therapy to psychoanalysis.
£16.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Psychoanalytic Thinking in Occupational Therapy
Book SynopsisThis book is the first to use psychoanalysis as a basis for exploring how occupational therapists do their work, and it incorporates a new conceptual model to guide practice. The authors emphasize the role of the unconscious in all that people do and are, and argue that activities (or occupations) are simultaneously real (i.e.Trade Review"This is a valuable book in stimulating our thinking around psychoanalytic theory and how this can be embraced into occupational therapy practice. It provides many references to seminal materials and the reader should explore these for a greater breadth of understanding." (British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 1 April 2014)Table of ContentsForeword by Sheena Blair vii Foreword by Paul Hoggett ix Acknowledgements xi 1 Introduction 1 Section 1 Psychoanalytic Theory Interwoven with Occupational Therapy 13 2 The ‘Therapeutic Use of Self’ in Occupational Therapy 15 3 An Occupational Therapy Perspective on Freud, Klein and Bion 32 4 The Function of ‘Doing’ in the Intermediate Space: Donald Winnicott and Occupational Therapy 57 5 Beyond Bowlby: Exploring the Dynamics of Attachment 68 6 Re-awakening Psychoanalytic Thinking in Occupational Therapy: From Gail Fidler to Here 87 Section 2 Psychoanalytic Occupational Therapy: A Relational Practice Model and Illuminating Theory in Clinical Practice 103 7 MOVI: A Relational Model in Occupational Therapy 105 8 Let the Children Speak 128 9 Working with Difference 145 Section 3 Further Psychoanalytic Thinking: Research and Training 163 10 Psychoanalytic Thinking in Research 165 11 Understanding the Use of Emotional Content in Therapy Using Occupational Therapists’ Narratives 186 12 Training Experiences to Develop Psychoanalytic Thinking 202 13 The Relational Space of Supervision 222 Index 239
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Sex between Body and Mind
Book SynopsisIn the first half of the 20th century the German-speaking world became the international centre of medical-scientific sex research - and the birthplace of sexology and psychoanalysis. This is the first book to closely examine encounters among this era's German-speaking researchers across their emerging professional and disciplinary boundaries.
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University of California Press The Foundations of Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisPresents a philosophical critique of the foundations of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis. This book takes cognizance of his claim that psychoanalysis has the credentials of a natural science.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Critique of the Hermeneutic Conception of Psychoanalytic Theory and Therapy Chapter 1. The Exegetical Legend of "Scientistic Self-Misunderstanding" Chapter 2. Critique of Habermas's Philosophy of Psychoanalysis A. Does the Dynamics of Psychoanalytic Therapy Exhibit the "Causality of Fate"? B. Are Nomological Explanations in the Natural Sciences Generically Non-Historical, While Causal Accounts in Psychoanalysis are Historically-Contextual? C. Does the Patient Have Privileged Cognitive Access to the Validation or Discreditation of Psychoanalytic Hypotheses? Chapter 3. Critique of Ricoeur's Philosophy of Psychoanalysis A. Ricoeur's Truncation of the Purview of Freudian Theory B. Are Natural Science Modes of Explanation and Validation Gainsaid in Psychoanalysis By the Pathogenicity of Seduction Fantasies, Or By the Explanatory Role of "Meaning"? C. Does the Theory of Repression Furnish a "Semantics of Desire"? D. Ricoeur's Disposal of "The Question of Proof in Freud's Theory" Chapter 4. Are Repressed Motives Reasons But Not Causes of Human Thought and Conduct? Chapter 5. Critique of GeorgeS. Klein's Version of Hermeneutic Psychoanalysis Chapter 6. The Collapse of the Scientophobic Reconstruction of Freud's Theory Part I. The Clinical Method of Psychoanalytic Investigation: Pathfinder or Pitfall? Chapter 1. Is Freud's Theory Empirically Testable? A. Clinical versus Experimental Testability:Statement of the Controversy B. The Purported Untestability of the Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality Chapter 2. Did Freud Vindicate His Method of Clinical Investigation? A. Are Clinical Confirmations an Artifact of the Patient's Positive "Transference" Feelings Toward the Analyst? B. Freud's Reliance on the Hypothesized Dynamics of Therapy as a Vindication of his Theory of Unconscious Motivation C. Was Freud's Attempted Therapeutic Vindication of the Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality Successful? Part II. The Cornerstone of the Psychoanalytic Edifice: Is the Freudian Theory of Repression Well Founded? Chapter 3. Appraisal of Freud's Arguments for the Repression Etiology of the Psychoneuroses Chapter 4. Examination of the Psychoanalytic Theory of Slips-of Memory, the Tongue, Ear, and Pen Chapter 5. Repressed Infantile Wishes as Instigators of All Dreams: Critical Scrutiny of the Compromise Model of Manifest Dream Content Chapter 6. Appraisal of Freud's Further Arguments for the Emergence of Unadulterated Repressions Under "Free" Association Chapter 7. Remarks on Post-Freudian Defenses of the Fundamental Tenets of Psychoanalysis Chapter 8. Can the Repression Etiology of Psychoneurosis Be Tested Retrospectively? Part III. Epilogue Chapter 9. The Method of Free Association and the Future Appraisal of Psychoanalysis Chapter 10. Critique of Freud's Final Defense of the Probative Value of Data from the Couch: The Pseudo-Convergence of Clinical Findings Chapter 11. Coda on Exegetical Myth-Making in Karl Popper's Indictment of the Clinical Validation of Psychoanalysis Bibliography Indexes Name Index Subject Index
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University of California Press Female Subjects in Black and White
Book SynopsisA collaboration between African American and white feminists that deals with the problems that have troubled feminist thinking for decades. It questions such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the universal nature of psychoanalytic categories, and the role of race in the formation of identity.Table of ContentsCONTRIBUTORS: Elizabeth Abel Katherine Clay Bassard Judith Butler Barbara Christian Ann duCille Mae G. Henderson Margaret Homans Akasha (Gloria) Hull Barbara Johnson Tania Modleski Helene Moglen Cynthia D. Schrager Carolyn Martin Shaw Hortense J. Spillers Jean Walton Laura Wexler
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University of California Press The Social Edges of Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisThis text collects together the author's essays on psychoanalytic concepts. Psychoanalytic theory has had an ambivalent relationship with sociology, and these essays explore that ambivalence, providing arguments about how and why psychoanalytic approaches can deepen the sociological perspective.
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University of California Press Berlin Psychoanalytic
Book SynopsisTaking us from World War I Berlin to the Third Reich and beyond to 1940s Palestine and 1950s New York - and to the influential work of the Frankfurt School - this book traces the network of artists and psychoanalysts that began in Germany and continued in exile.Trade Review"Brilliant, fascinating, and exciting... Essential." Choice "Sobering and instructive... Fuechnter's book brings revolutionary figures back into discourse." Times Literary Supplement (TLS) "Essential reading for all those who seek to understand a crucial group in the history of modernism." Alpata: A Journal Of History "[Fuechtner] is an erudite guide through part of that weird and wonderful world." Metapsychology Online Review
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Feminism and Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisFeminism and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Dictionary is of major interest to those who are aware of the breadth of its two component areas, and wish to explore the common ground between them more intensively. Entries deal with concepts from and significant figures in psychoanalysis, issues of sexual politics that intersect with psychoanalysis, feminist aesthetics and criticism which both use and challenge psychoanalytic thought. Each entry concludes with a short, carefully selected list of further reading.Trade Review"Not only a work of reference, but an indispensable guide to the territory of feminist argument." Parveen Adams, Brunel University "The entries are written by many of the best writers in the field; the bibliographies are invaluable ... Does an excellent job naming and covering the variety of issues at stake." Jane Gallop, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee "Impeccably researched, as well as lucidly written." Madelon Sprengnether, University of Minnesota "This Dictionary will be an essential resource for anyone undertaking research in the area of 'feminism and psychoanalysis'." Morag Shiach, British Journal of PsychotherapyTable of ContentsIntroduction. Dictionary Entries A-Z. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Zizek Reader
Book SynopsisZizek's work is a mix of Hegel and Hitchcock, Schelling and science fiction, Kant and courtly love, Stalin and Stephen King, all of which is strongly seasoned with Lacanian psychoanalysis. This title includes a Preface by Zizek and an essay on cyberspace. It includes Culture, Woman and Philosophy.Trade Review"Zizek is, in fact, the most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged in Europe for some decades." Terry Eagleton, University of Oxford "The Zizek Reader is an excellent introduction to his thinking and contains the first systematic criticism of his work, in editorial introductions to each essay. In his own preface, Zizek makes his gambit explicit by his categorical rejection of the 'hegemonic trends' of today's academia." The IndependentTable of ContentsPreface: Burning the Bridges by Slavoj Zizek vii Acknowledgements xi Introduction 1 Part I: Culture 9 1. The Undergrowth of Enjoyment: How popular culture can serve as an Introduction to Lacan 11 2. The Obscene Object of Postmodernity 37 3. The Spectre of Ideology 53 4. Fantasy as a Political Category: A Lacanian Approach 87 5. Is it Possible to Traverse the Fantasy in Cyberspace?102 Part II: Woman 125 6. Otto Weininger, or 'Woman doesn't Exist' 127 7. Courtly Love, or Woman as Thing 148 8. There is No Sexual Relationship 174 9. Death and the Maiden 206 Part III: Philosophy 223 10. Hegel's 'Logic of Essence' as a Theory of Ideology 225 11. Schelling-in-Itself: The Orgasm of Forces 251 12. A Hair of the Dog that Bit You 268 13. Kant with (or against) Sade 283 14. Of Cells and Selves 302 Slavoj iek: Bibliography of Worlds in English 321 Index 323
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Harvard University Press 19081914
Book SynopsisVolume 1 of the three-volume Freud-Ferenczi correspondence closes with Freud’s letter from Vienna, dated June 28, 1914, to his younger colleague in Budapest: “I am writing under the impression of the surprising murder in Sarajevo, the consequences of which cannot be foreseen.”Table of ContentsTranslator's Note Note on Transcription of the Original Correspondence Abbreviations of Works Cited Introduction by Andre Haynal Correspondence Works by Freud and Ferenczi Cited in the Text Index
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Harvard University Press Hermes Dilemma and Hamlets Desire
Book SynopsisIn essays that question how the human sciences, particularly anthropology and psychoanalysis, articulate their fields of study, Crapanzano addresses nothing less than the enormous problem of defining the self in both its individual and collective projections.Trade ReviewEnormously learned, quite brilliant in its details, and magisterial in its theoretical purpose. -- Hayden WhiteThe argument of the book is both subtle and telling, lodged between Hermes’ dilemma of a message he cannot deliver without co-opting and Hamlet’s predicament of a language from which one cannot ‘steal.’ -- Roy Wagner, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsIntroduction PART 1: THE TEXTUALIZED SELF 1. Centering 2. Hermes' Dilemma 3. The Self, the Third, and Desire 4. Self-Characterization PART 2: THE DIALOGIC SELF 5. Text, Transference, and Indexicality 6. Talking (about) Psychoanalysis 7. Mohammed and Dawia 8. Dialogue PART 3: THE EXPERIENCED SELF 9. Symbols and Symbolizing 10. Glossing Emotions 11. Saints, Jnun, and Dreams 12. Rite of Return PART 4: THE SUBMERGED SELF 13. Maimed Rites and Wild and Whirling Words Notes References Index
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Harvard University Press A Case for Irony
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBefore we can claim to live a truly examined life, says Jonathan Lear, we need to pass the test of ironic self-scrutiny at something approaching the level set by Socrates and Kierkegaard. Following the contours of the subtle case for radical irony Lear makes turns out to be an intellectual adventure in its own right. -- J. M. CoetzeeJonathan Lear's re-reading of the significance of irony for getting the hang of a genuinely human existence is an unheimlich maneuver that brings religion and psychoanalysis into productive conversation with philosophy, and induces characteristically sharp and creative responses from his interlocutors: an exemplary instance of the virtues of the Tanner Lectures format. -- Stephen Mulhall, University of OxfordLear performs a valuable service. He shows us just how far the contemporary usage of irony diverges from an older, far more appealing meaning, according to which irony is a portal to self-knowledge. -- Andrew Stark * Wall Street Journal *Lear's book provides intellectual pleasure of a very high order: its distinctions are careful, its prose lucid and elegant, and its examples suggestive and well chosen...You should read this book. -- Paul J. Griffiths * Commonweal *
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Harvard University Press Dispatches from the Freud Wars
Book SynopsisThe noted historian and philosopher of science John Forrester raises a provocative point: no matter how you feel about Freud, you can't escape the influence of his theories. Through questions central to our century's ways of thinking, Forrester explores dreams, history, ethics, political theory, and psychoanalysis as a scientific movement.Trade ReviewWhere Forrester hits the mark is his insight on the passionate intensity of the battles between Freud and his critics, and the analogy he makes between this struggle and the one between analyst and his or her patient. It may be possible, in fact, to read the entire commentary on Freud as that between analysand and analyst, all projecting part of their shadow onto Freud and struggling in the trenches of transference and countertransference. It is to Forrester's credit that he sees this and shows it to us in this provocative book. -- Claire Douglas * Washington Post Book World *[This book, along with Truth Games]…present[s] a series of eight wide-ranging but interconnected essays. Taken as an ensemble, they deal with the history of psychoanalysis, redefinitions of psychoanalysis and what it means to be a Freudian, psychoanalytic readings of contemporary cultural issues, discussions of the scientific status of psychoanalysis and an impassioned defence of psychoanalysis…The essays are elegantly written, and open up a number of new perspectives on these issues, as well as putting forward new formulations of more familiar ones…Anyone interested in the history of psychoanalysis and the cultural location of psychoanalysis today is likely to find these essays stimulating, engaging and inviting of dialogue. -- Sonu Shamdasani * Medical History *Dispatches from the Freud Wars is compulsively readable, a revision of Freud's life and thought, brilliantly written, full of enticing detail. -- A.S. Byatt * The Sunday Times *An expert at the shifting sands of philosophical argument, Forrester continually undercuts the grounds of the varieties of criticisms aimed at psychoanalytic theory, technique and cultural significance. Love him or hate him, Forrester rightly insists, we cannot pretend that Freud did not exist, and that his extensive writings have not permanently influenced the 20th century's received views on human nature, hermeneutics and the nature of scientific inquiry...To a large extent then, this a book about reading Freud, rhetorically structured so that the final charges of misreading leveled against such critics of psychoanalysis as Frederick Crews and Adolph Grünbaum ring convincing and true. Forrester's accomplishment here is to deflect the accusations of psychoanalysis as pseudo-science back onto the accusers, who do not understand that psychoanalysis is not, and never was intended to be, rocket science. -- Renée Kingcaid * Psychoanalytic Studies *Freud could hardly have a doughtier champion. Forrester's writerly and polemical skills are impressive, and make for an utterly fascinating book. -- A. C. Grayling * Financial Times *John Forrester is well known for his translations of Lacan and for his books on psychoanalysis. This excellent collection of essays is elegantly readable. The title essay presents a measured, reasonable defense of Freud which neither conceals his flaws nor blackens his character. -- Anthony Storr * The Times *Forrester, interestingly, uses Freud's thinking to reconsider such subjects as the links between envy and justice, and the nature of discretion as opposed to transgression...[His] book is consistently challenging. -- Paul Roazen * Globe & Mail *Here there are excellent essays on Freud's lurid relationship with Sandor Ferenczi, and on Freud the collector of antiquities. -- Justin Wintle * The Independent *Although there were many reasons for thinking that the complacencies of the American psychoanalytic establishment deserved a thorough shaking-up, it is disconcerting that an impression may be now abroad that psychoanalysis deserved to be seen as junk science. On this score Forrester is, in my opinion, on the side of the angels. He takes Freud seriously as a figure within intellectual history, and in the last chapter of this book Forrester tries to deal with criticisms...Forrester rightly sees Freud as part of the Western moral thought, a thinker whose ethical practices and preachings deserve close scrutiny. -- Paul Roazen * Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences *[These] six long, probing essays on Freudian psychoanalysis and its cultural legacy...stand in welcome contrast to some of the recent facile debunkings of Freudianism. Forrester...writes on topics ranging from justice and envy to the deeper meaning of the sculptures and other objects from classical antiquity that Freud collected. He is particularly adept at making cross-cultural and interdisciplinary links...The great merit of Forrester's book is that it takes both Freud and his critics seriously. The author is both rigorous about classical psychoanalysis's limitations and deeply respectful of its enormous contributions to our culture and specifically our understanding of the self. He has made a profound, sometimes scintillating, contribution to the history of this most multifaceted science and craft. * Kirkus Reviews *John Forrester's Dispatches from the Freud Wars is also compulsively readable, a revision of Freud's life and thought, brilliantly written, full of enticing detail. -- A.S. Byatt * Sunday Times *John Forrester's Dispatches from the Freud Wars is a fascinating discussion of why Freud, unlike Marx--at the moment--won't leave us alone and how much of our thinking is impossible without his ideas. Freud's most vehement critics prove repeatedly that ours is his century. -- Hanif Kureishi * The Observer *Refreshingly, John Forrester wagers 'that the more we know about Freud--the more one has unlearned what one was hardwired to know about him--the more interesting and surprising and thought-provoking he becomes.' Your Freudian education could begin here. * The Guardian *In his stimulating analysis, the author brings to bear an impressive array of thinkers: St. Augustine, Nietzsche, Lacan, Ferenczi, Rawls, Crews, Sulloway, and Derrida, among many others. The scope, clarity, and constrained passion of the present study place it among the outstanding works on the subject for scholars and serious lay readers. * Library Journal *Forrester's essays are scholarly, engagingly presented, original and often humorous. His style, which becomes characteristic essay to essay, is to present an anecdote, a quotation, an observation, and then to develop it outwards, in concentric circles of meaning, which become richer and more complex as they proceed. -- Bernard M. Edelstein, M.D., Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical SchoolForrester is already well known as the author of Language and the Origins of Psychoanalysis (1980) and The Seductions of Psychoanalysis (1990), as the co-author of Freud's Women (1992), and as the translator and editor of key volumes from Lacan's Seminar. This latest collection of essays finds Forrester in top form. It extends and diversifies his earlier writings in important ways and brings him to the forefront of contemporary debates on the standing of psychoanalysis. It is of course easy to talk about the Freudian inheritance nowadays--being able to do so is one of the entry requirements to the smart set and to an entire spectrum of academic and semipopular journals. Forrester's voice rises clear of this metropolitan hubbub: he is an outstanding Freud scholar who brings a scrupulous sense of history to everything he does. Dispatches from the Freud Wars is likely to command a very wide readership and to be massively influential in the current psychoanalytic debate. -- Malcolm Bowie, University of OxfordJohn Forrester...has seen that the reactions to Freud are themselves an interesting commentary on our culture as a whole. His latest book consists of six essays on Freud and his effects, focusing on the various kinds of reactions to and interpretations of him. While by no means an unqualified admirer, he assumes that Freud is a supremely important figure in the twentieth-century's attempt to understand itself...I enjoyed this book; it is written in a vigorous, discursive style, provocative and illuminating...It is nice to be reminded by this book that psychoanalytic ideas exist in a wider zeitgeist, and are there not just to be worked with, but also to be played with. -- Susan Budd * International Journal of Psycho-Analysis *This volume delves into the heart of the current Freud debates. As an erudite scholar from the department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University, Forrester brings impeccable credentials to his exegesis. -- George Hough, Ph.D * Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic *For the lay reader Dispatches from the Freud Wars is not an easy read, but it is one bound to leave us rethinking the most pervasive and commonplace aspects of our daily lives and surrounding communities. John Forrester's breadth of knowledge is admirable--astonishing, really. And he does succeed in realigning our vision, clarifying an epoch by confronting us with perspectives that shift from dazzlingly wide to uncomfortably narrow...Taken together, the essays comprise a multi-faceted approach to Freud, a man not to be approached in any simple or narrow manner, as Forrester makes abundantly clear. -- Elizabeth Templeman * Southern Humanities Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Justice, Envy, and Psychoanalysis Casualities of Truth Collector, Naturalist, Surrealist Dream Readers "A Whole Climate of Opinion" Dispatches from the Freud Wars Epilogue Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Index
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Harvard University Press Freud
Book SynopsisÉlisabeth Roudinesco's bold reinterpretation of Sigmund Freud is a biography for the twenty-first centurya sympathetic yet impartial appraisal of a genius admired but misunderstood in his time and ours. Alert to tensions in his character and thought, she views Freud less as a scientific thinker than as an interpreter of civilization and culture.Trade ReviewDo we think we know all there is to know about Freud? Not even close. Élisabeth Roudinesco’s book is full of fresh facts about Freud’s life and potent interpretation of his work. A sparkling and highly original intellectual biography. -- Mark Edmundson, author of The Death of Sigmund Freud: The Legacy of His Last DaysThrough seamlessly and eloquently weaving together details from Freud’s time and our own, [Roudinesco] provides a refreshingly new and welcome account—warts and all. -- Janet Sayers * Times Higher Education *[Roudinesco] provides an insightful, balanced, and sympathetic portrait of Freud. As she assesses Freud’s revolutionary ideas about rationality, sexuality, and the unconscious, Roudinesco demonstrates that Freud was less a scientific thinker who uncovered universal truths than a product of his time: a genius, to be sure, but very much a bourgeois shaped by society, family, and politics in the late 19th century…Her critique has an especially persuasive force because it is grounded not only in an analysis of Freud’s books, diaries, and letters but from accounts of his sessions with patients. -- Glenn C. Altschuler * Psychology Today *What makes Freud: In His Time And Ours…such a captivating read, is the author’s ability to explain what are often complex, deeply-layered, and dark taboo subjects, into a language that is easily understood…[A] brilliant biography. -- J. P. O’Mallery * Irish Examiner *Élisabeth Roudinesco’s new biography, Freud: In His Time and Ours, is a welcome reminder of Freud’s considerable influence on 20th-century intellectual life. More important, she puts center stage Freud’s complex brand of rationalism and the full scope of his achievements, which went far beyond offering a cure for individuals. In particular, Roudinesco captures Freud’s recognition of the insurmountable ways in which our irrational desires and longings shape who we are and how we act. This correction is needed not only to give us a more accurate sense of Freud’s innovations, but also to contrast it against today’s more complacent assumptions about human rationality. Despite what economists and psychologists and political scientists insist, the rational self is not always master in its own house—whether in individual life or in collective experience…Roudinesco recounts Freud’s life and the development of his thought with great flair. -- Samuel Moyn * The Nation *Freud, a pioneer in creative biography, meets his analyst, a woman who illuminates modern psychology and social evolution for general audiences. This is perhaps the most important Freud biography since that of Jones, and a welcome corrective. -- E. James Lieberman * Library Journal (starred review) *A new standard…[A] masterful achievement…It has the…tangible mix of insouciance, scholarly thoroughness and psychoanalytic acumen, and it demonstrates Roudinesco’s critical and philosophical talent. The book’s strength is not so much in providing new material, although it does supply intriguing details about Freud’s patients and his relationships with family, friends, opponents and disciples. Rather, Roudinesco offers us a rereading of Freud that makes sense of him in relation to his emergence in the Jewish Vienna of the second half of the 19th century, and to the ‘old Europe’ to which he was so attached until it crumbled in the 20th. -- Stephen Frosh * Jewish Chronicle *[A] compelling biography…Forget the science: Roudinesco presents a brilliant cultural commentator, a man who married Romanticism and science in a way attractive to the belle époque. In fact, the biographer anchors Freud to his time and place in a way he himself—for all his focus on ‘civilization and its discontents’—never managed. -- Brian Bethune * Maclean’s *This is a book which eschews simple answers and is thus a significant milestone in our understanding of Freud… Roudinesco’s work is both comprehensive and subtle… In reclaiming [Freud] as ‘the master interpreter of civilization and culture,’ she has provided an invaluable service. -- Stuart Kelly * Scotland on Sunday *A revealing portrait of a cultural revolutionary. -- Bryce Christensen * Booklist (starred review) *A balanced account of one of the most exceptional and daring thinkers and writers to emerge in the modernist era. -- J.P. O’Malley * Irish Times *
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