"The authors highlight how philosophical perspectives on language, embodiment, time, history, and conscious/unconscious experiences can contribute to clinical interpretations of gender, sexuality, race, age, culture, and class."--Publisher.
Face-to-face with differences in the analytical relationship analysts frequently confront the limitations of their theories. In this new book Mary Lynne Ellis and Noreen O'Connor move to the heart of 21st century intertwining of psychoanalytical and philosophical critical reflec…
Psychoanalysis can make a huge difference in the lives of patients, their families and others they encounter. Myths have developed, however, about how psychoanalysis should end - what patients experience and what analysts do. These expectations come primarily from accounts by an…
Myths of Termination confronts and refutes the myths about how psychoanalysis should end--what patients experience and what analysts do. Kantrowitz explores the accounts of 82 former analysands reflecting on the effect of non-mutual endings due to external factors (moving, retir…
"Reframes the terms of cultural analysis with a fresh take on transference theory in Freud and Lacan and a critical engagement with the philosophy of Alain Badiou. Each in his own way both Freud and Lacan defined the transference as the ego's last stand, its final desperate atte…
Both Freud and Lacan defined the transference as the ego's last stand--its final desperate attempt to keep the truth of the unconscious at bay. Both also viewed the transference as a social phenomenon. In The Structures of Love James Penney argues that transference is the concep…
"Reframes the terms of cultural analysis with a fresh take on transference theory in Freud and Lacan and a critical engagement with the philosophy of Alain Badiou. Each in his own way both Freud and Lacan defined the transference as the ego's last stand, its final desperate atte…