Psychoanalysis enjoyed an enormous popularity at one time, but has recently fallen out of favor as new psychiatric medications have dominated the treatment of mental illness and a new interest in the brain and neuroscience begins to dominate the theory as to the cause and cure o…
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"Mother-Infant Attachment and Psychoanalysis argues that shame can develop during the first six months of life through an unreflecting look in the mother's eyes, and that this shame is internalized by the infant and reverberates through its later life. Mary Ayers further expands…
Investigates the powers and limits of psychoanalysis, focusing on whether, in our contemporary "entertainment" culture, rebellion is still a viable option and whether it is still possible to build and embrace a counterculture. She illustrates the advances and impasses of rebel c…
Content: The Vienna psychoanalytic society -- Alfred Adler departs -- Judging Jung, 1912-1913 -- The Committee, 1913-1914 -- War, 1914 -- Limbo, 1915-1916 -- Krakow -- Active therapy and armistice, 1918 -- Eros, Oedipus, Thanatos, 1919 and 1920 -- Rising tension, 1921 -- Favorit…
This text offers students an introduction to Freud's importance for psychoanalytic literary criticism, while tracing the scientific and cultural contexts from which he emerged. The book covers Freud's terminology and key ideas.
Phelan employs an impressive range of cultural representations to examine how cultures perform their mourning. In relation to texts and events ranging from the paintings of Caravaggio to the Hill/Thomas hearing, she meditates on the trauma of loss.
