Freud Books
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New and Published Books
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Memory, Myth, and Seduction
Unconscious Fantasy and the Interpretive Process
Series: Psychological Issues
Memory, Myth, and Seduction reveals the development and evolution of Jean-Georges Schimek's thinking on unconscious fantasy and the interpretive process derived from a close reading of Freud as well as contemporary psychoanalysis. Contributing richly to North American psychoanalytic thought,...
Published January 9th 2011 by Routledge
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Sigmund Freud
2nd Edition
Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers
The work of Sigmund Freud has penetrated almost every area of literary theory and cultural studies, as well as contemporary culture. Pamela Thurschwell explains and contextualises psychoanalytic theory and its meaning for modern thinking. This updated second edition explores developments and...
Published April 26th 2009 by Routledge
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Freud
A Modern Reader
This long-awaited text makes accessible the ideas of one of the most important thinkers of our time, as well as indicating how Freud's theories are put into clinical practice today. The collection of papers has been written by some of the most eminent psychoanalysts, who have made original...
Published November 29th 2005 by Routledge
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Reading Freud
A Chronological Exploration of Freud's Writings
Series: New Library of Psychoanalysis Teaching Series
Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award! Reading Freud provides an accessible outline of the whole of Freud's work from Studies in Hysteria through to An Outline of Psycho-Analysis. It succeeds in expressing even the most complex of Freud's theories in clear and simple language whilst avoiding...
Published July 13th 2005 by Routledge
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Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid
Elements for a Psychoanalytic Epistemology
Why is stupidity sublime? What is the value of a 'dialectics of ignorance' for analysts and academics? Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid draws on recent research to provide a thorough and illuminating evaluation of the status of knowledge and truth in psychoanalysis. Adopting a Lacanian framework,...
Published June 22nd 2005 by Routledge
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The Freud Wars
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis
The Freud Wars offers a comprehensive introduction to the crucial question of the justification of psychoanalysis. Part I examines three powerful critiques of psychoanalysis in the context of a recent controversy about its nature and legitimacy: is it a bankrupt science, an innovative science, or...
Published May 18th 2005 by Routledge
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The Dynamics of Human Aggression
Theoretical Foundations, Clinical Applications
This book seeks to resolve an issue that has divided psychoanalysts and other scholars of aggression for decades, namely the nature of aggression. The work expands and unifies the Freudian drive-based explanation of aggression into contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice and brings Freudian...
Published October 15th 2003 by Routledge
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The Unconscious
Series: The New Critical Idiom
The unconscious is a term which is central to the understanding of psychoanalysis, and, indeed everyday life. In this introductory guide, Antony Easthope provides a witty and accessible overview of the subject showing the reality of the unconscious with a startling variety of examples. He takes us...
Published June 23rd 1999 by Routledge
Forthcoming Books
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What Is Psychoanalysis?: 100 Years after Freud's 'Secret Committee'
To Be Published August 23rd 2012 -
The Reception and Rendition of Freud in China: China’s Freudian Slip
To Be Published October 1st 2012 -
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: One Hundred Years After "Little Hans"
To Be Published December 2nd 2012
