This book offers a controversial intervention into fierce recent debates about the credibility of psychoanalysis. Freud is a perennially attractive topic in both psychology, literary studies and cultural studies. It revives discussion of a major tendency in Freud's work (the the…
Rob White reconsiders Freud's controversial theory of inherited memory, referring it both to Anglo-American commentary and post-structuralist work on psychoanalysis. White proposes that this theory is evidence of an underlying haunted retrospection in Freudian theorizing, which …
"Freud's Memory examines the use of figurative language, in particular images of wounding and transgression, in Freud's writing. According to Rob White, close reading reveals a widespread, uncanny crisis of knowledge and argument in the texts. White also explores Freud's belief …
"Lacan, Language, and Philosophy explores the linguistic turn in psychoanalysis taken by Jacques Lacan. Russell Grigg provides lively and accessible readings of Lacan and Freud that are grounded in clinical experience and informed by a background in analytic philosophy. He addre…
Managed care and psychoanalytic practice -- The workplace and paranoid anxiety -- The somatic retreat -- Mutilation, substance abuse, and the psychoanalytic method -- The symbolic object -- Triangulation -- Fear of hate and harm : less disturbed patients -- Fear of hate and harm…
What kind of theoretical engagement can postcolonial theory have with psychoanalysis? Is psychoanalysis still a useful tool for understanding the cultural and psychological dimensions of colonial societies? What would it mean to truly place psychoanalysis in the service of postc…
