1st Edition

Unconscious Mental Life and Reality

By Richard Ekins Copyright 2002
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

512 Pages
by Routledge

It is the aim of the present collection of seminal essays to offer a balanced yet rigorous examination of the durability and contemporary relevance of psychoanalysis, understood as a comprehensive system of theory and technique. The contributors eschew the establishment of yet another school of Freudian thought, not wishing to add to the already confusing array of competing and conflicting... Read more
Foreword -- Introduction -- The distinctiveness of the psychoanalytic unconscious -- What is affect? -- Mode of operation of unconscious mental processes as revealed by pathological forms of cognition -- Reflections on the psychoanalytic study of character -- Of teeth and theft and Poe: non-Lacanian purloining

Biography

Ekins, Richard