This handbook provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the historical, theoretical and applied forms of psychoanalytical criticism. It offers students new ways of understanding the powers and limits of psychoanalysis, and of the social, cultural and political possibilities…
In this book Eric Smadja explores the representations of society and culture that Freud developed in the course of his work. Distinct from contemporary sociological and anthropological conceptions, they led to his construction of a personal socio-anthropology that was virulently…
Clinical supervision of psychoanalytic psychotherapy
Clinical supervision of psychoanalytic psychotherapy
"This is a philosophical development of the Freudian concept of 'libidinal economy' and one of Lyotard's most important works. In part a response to Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus, it can also be seen as culminating a line of modern thought ranging from de Sade, Nietzsche a…
Collects 18 previously published essays and two new essays by one ofthe world's leading commentators on Deleuze and Guattari.
"In these 20 essays written over a 20-year period, Buchanan shines a light on the experimental nature of the work of Deleuze and Guattari. He shows it to be constitutively incomplete as their project was an attempt to understand our contemporary situation which is constantly cha…