The main purpose of this book is to look at a range of ubiquitous phenomena that make up our daily lives and ask what can psychoanalytic thinking add to our existing understanding of these phenomena. Is there another layer below the obvious surface layer which could be explored …
The main purpose of this book is to look at a range of ubiquitous phenomena that make up our daily lives and ask what can psychoanalytic thinking add to our existing understanding of these phenomena. Is there another layer below the obvious surface layer which could be explored …
Preface and acknowledgments -- The American independent tradition: Loewald, Erikson, and the (possible) rise of intersubjective ego psychology -- From Freud to Erikson -- Civilization and its discontents and beyond: drives, identity, and Freud's sociology -- the question of a we…
In The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye: Toward an American Independent Tradition, Nancy J. Chodorow brings together her two professional identities, psychoanalyst and sociologist, as she also brings together and moves beyond two traditions within American psychoanaly…
Lacan & the human sciences
"Critical Theory has traditionally been interested in engaging classical psychoanalysis rather than addressing postclassical thought. For the first time, this volume brings Critical Theory into proper dialogue with modern developments in the psychoanalytic movement and covers a …
"Critical Theory has traditionally been interested in engaging classical psychoanalysis rather than addressing postclassical thought. For the first time, this volume brings Critical Theory into proper dialogue with modern developments in the psychoanalytic movement and covers a …
This book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the historical, theoretical and applied forms of psychoanalytical criticism. This path-breaking 'Handbook' offers students new ways of understanding the powers and limits of psychoanalysis, and of the social, cultural and …
This book argues for the value and application of psychoanalytic thinking beyond, as well as within, the consulting room. Inspired by a Scottish psychoanalytic tradition that owes much to W.R.D. Fairbairn and J.D. Sutherland, the Scottish Institute of Human Relations has provide…