1st Edition

Cultural Theory and Psychoanalytic Tradition

By David Fisher Copyright 1991
322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

310 Pages
by Routledge

The culture of psychoanalysis has many traditions and multiple schools of theory and thought. This work presents informative and original investigations into three overlapping areas of psychoanalytic tradition: the history of psychoanalysis; psychoanalytic culture criticism; and the application of psychoanalytic methods to the study of history. In this carefully crafted evaluation of various... Read more
Introduction Part I: The History of Psychoanalysis 1 Lacan's Ambiguous Impact on Contemporary French Psychoanalysis 2 Sigmund Freud and Romain Rolland: The Terrestrial Animal and His Great Oceanic Friend 3 The Analytic Triangle: Freud, Jung, and Sabina Spielrein 4 Psychoanalysis and Engagement: Otto Fenichel and the Political Freudians Part ?: Psychoanalytic Culture Criticism 5 Reading Freud ' s Civilization and Its Discontents 6 Psychoanalytic Culture Criticism and the Soul 7 A Final Conversation with Bruno Bettelheim 8 Homage to Bettelheim (1903-1990) 9 Thoughts on Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality 10 On French Structuralist Theory and Practice Part ??: Psychoanalytic History 11 The Question of Psychohistory 12 An Intellectual History of Crowds 13 Narcissistic Themes in a Psychobiography of Isaac Newton

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David Fisher