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In this stimulating and often startling book, Derrida examines the various "resistances" to analysis-conceived not only as a phenomenon theorized at the heart of psychoanalysis, but as psychoanalysis's resistance to itself. The book comprises three essays devoted to Freud, Lacan, and Foucault.

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'An engrossing critique of psychoanalysis, a confessional memoir, a tale of intellectual influences, a history of the great twentieth-century love affairwith Freudian thought - such is Resistance of Psychoanalysis, a book to raise the level of debate over the politics of deconstruction several notches.' The Australian

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1. Resistances 2. For the love of Lacan 3. 'To do justice to Freud': the history of madness in the age of psychoanalysis.

Resistances of Psychoanalysis

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A Paperback / softback by Jacques Derrida, Peggy Kamuf, Pascale-Anne Brault

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    Publisher: Stanford University Press
    Publication Date: 01/07/1998
    ISBN13: 9780804730198, 978-0804730198
    ISBN10: 0804730199
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    In this stimulating and often startling book, Derrida examines the various "resistances" to analysis-conceived not only as a phenomenon theorized at the heart of psychoanalysis, but as psychoanalysis's resistance to itself. The book comprises three essays devoted to Freud, Lacan, and Foucault.

    Trade Review
    'An engrossing critique of psychoanalysis, a confessional memoir, a tale of intellectual influences, a history of the great twentieth-century love affairwith Freudian thought - such is Resistance of Psychoanalysis, a book to raise the level of debate over the politics of deconstruction several notches.' The Australian

    Table of Contents
    1. Resistances 2. For the love of Lacan 3. 'To do justice to Freud': the history of madness in the age of psychoanalysis.

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