Introduction: Psychology after the Unconscious Part I: Freud 1. Dimensions of the Unconscious in Freud 2. Rosalia H.: With Freud in a Prelude to Psychoanalysis 3. The Ego in Lucy R: Notes on Conflict in One of Freud’s First Cases 4. Katharina Working Out Anxiety: Notes on Freud’s Early Case 5. The Unconscious Love of Elisabeth Von R: Notes on Freud’s First Full-Length Analysis 6. The Psychogenesis of the Ego: Notes on Freud’s ‘Case of Homosexuality in a Woman’ Part II: Lacan 7. Lacan’s Formation of the Unconscious 8. Identification: Signifiers, Negation and the Unary Trait in Seminar IX 9. Seminar XXIII: Sinthome, Creativity, Culture and Pathology in Psychoanalysis
Biography
Ian Parker was Co-Founder and is Co-Director (with Erica Burman) of the Discourse Unit. He is a member of the Asylum: Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry collective, and a practising psychoanalyst in Manchester. His research and writing intersects with psychoanalysis and critical theory. He is currently editing a book series Lines of the Symbolic (on Lacanian psychoanalysis in different cultural contexts) for Karnac Books. He edited the 2011 four-volume Routledge major work Critical Psychology, and is editing the series Concepts for Critical Psychology: Disciplinary Boundaries Re-Thought. His books on critical perspectives in psychology began with The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology, and How to End It (Routledge, 1989), and continued with Discourse Dynamics: Critical Analysis for Social and Individual Psychology (Routledge, 1992). His recent books include Qualitative Psychology: Introducing Radical Research (Open University Press, 2005) and Revolution in Psychology: Alienation to Emancipation (Pluto Press, 2007).
'This series is the comprehensive resource we have been waiting for to enable new generations of budding psychologists, and all those who concern themselves with how we might live, to find their way to a just appreciation of what it might be to understand the myriad ways a human being can be a person among persons.' – Rom Harré, Linacre College, University of Oxford, UK, and the Psychology Department, Georgetown University, USA
‘This volume of Ian Parker’s work is a treasure trove for researchers, not only in psychoanalysis and psychology, but in other disciplines such as philosophy and social, as well as cultural theory. With his knack for combining clarity and profound insight, Parker casts further light on both Freud and Lacan’s rich legacy, and ensures that even someone who is no stranger to psychoanalysis would be informed and enlightened.’ – Bert Olivier, Department of Philosophy, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa
'This book provides a refreshing reading of how Freud and Lacan conceptualize the unconscious. Ian Parker carefully examines original texts and discusses them through a critical lens, elucidating theoretical underpinnings of key psychoanalytic constructs. The author carefully explains what these important constructs imply for clinical practice.' – Stijn Vanheule, Department of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting, Ghent University, Belgium
