1st Edition

The Academic Face of Psychoanalysis Papers in Philosophy, the Humanities, and the British Clinical Tradition

Edited By Louise Braddock, Michael Lacewing Copyright 2007
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

Ever since Freud, psychoanalysts have explored the connections between psychoanalysis and literature and psychoanalysis and philosophy, while literary criticism, social science and philosophy have all reflected on and made use of ideas from psychoanalytic theory. The Academic Face of Psychoanalysis presents contributions from these fields and gives the reader an insight into different... Read more

Foreword.  Introduction.  Part 1: Psychoanalysis  What Do Psychoanalysts Do? Brearley  Reading and Misreading Budd  Elements of the Oedipus Complex: A Kleinian Account Rusbridger  Civilization and its Discontents Today Tuckett  Part 2: Philosophy  A Triangle of Hostility? Psychoanalysis, Philosophy and Religion Cottingham  Do Unconscious Emotions Involve Unconscious Feelings? Lacewing  Guilt, Shame and the ‘Psychology of Love’ Harcourt  Psychoanalysis as Functionalist Social Science: The Legacy of Freud’s ‘Project for a Scientific Psychology’ Braddock  Part 3: Perspectives   How Do Psychoanalysts Know What They Know? Rustin  Freud’s Literary Imagination Robertson  Force, Figuration, and Repetition in Freud Connors  Gender, Sexuality and the Theory of Seduction Fletcher

Biography

Dr Louise Braddock is a bye-fellow of Girton College, Cambridge.

Dr Michael Lacewing is a lecturer at Heythrop College, University of London.