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Psychoanalysis in Context Paths between Theory and Modern Culture
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Routledge
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Routledge
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During the last decade and a half there have been dramatic changes in psychoanalytic theory, as well as in cultural, social and political theory. Psychoanalysis in Contexts examines these changes and explores the relationship between psychoanalysis and theory. The volume brings together leading scholars and practitioners in psychoanalysis to develop a unique rethinking of the relations between... Read more
Introduction, Anthony Elliott, Stephen Frosh; Part 1 Subjectivity and intersubjectivity; Chapter 1 Logic, imagination, reflection, Cornelius Castoriadis; Chapter 2 The affirmation of primary repression rethought, Anthony Elliott; Chapter 3 The crisis of Oedipal identity, Peter Dews; Chapter 4 On the subject of Lacan, David Macey; Part 2 The dynamics of difference; Chapter 5 Individuality and difference in howwomen and men love, Nancy J.Chodorow; Chapter 6 Sameness and difference, Jessica Benjamin; Chapter 7 Consuming male fantasy, Janet Sayers; Chapter 8 Mourning Freud, Madelon Sprengnether; Chapter 9 Masculine mastery and fantasy, or the meaning of the phallus, Stephen Frosh; Part 3 Modern conditions, psychoanalytic controversies; Chapter 10 From Hiroshima to the Gulf War and after, Hanna Segal; Chapter 11 On racism and psychoanalysis, Joel Kovel; Chapter 12 Lacan, Klein and politics, Michael Rustin;
Biography
Anthony Elliott is Research Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition (1992), and Psychoanalytic Theory: An Introduction (1994).,
Stephen Frosh is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London, and is Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic. He is the author of Identity Crisis: Modernity, Psychoanalysis and the Self (1991), and Sexual Difference: Masculinity and Psychoanalysis (1994).
