This unique volume brings together contributions from experts who are able to introduce both the neophyte and the scholar to important faucets of Freud's life and work. The gross misconceptions and distortions of Freud and his ideas which have prevailed in many circles are here dispelled by scholars. Originally delivered at a symposium sponsored ......
Loss and Prolonged Adolescence in Twain, Melville, and Hemingway
A compelling, massively researched psychoanalytic study of the inability to mourn in Melville, Twain and Hemingway, and its roots in maternal loss.--Ann Douglas, author of TERRIBLE HONESTY: MONGREL MANHATTAN IN THE 1920S. This insightful text is recommended for all students of American culture and literature.--CHOICE.
History, Science, and Practice in American Psychoanalysis
"The advancement of psychoanalysis in America has reached an impasse. Scientists are pitted against hermeneuticists, theorists against practitioners, and narrative truth against historical truth, reflecting and refracting the role of the past in theory and therapy through a host of competing approaches. Leonard Lamm argues against the impossible ......
This work offers a multiple code theory for psychoanalysis and cognitive science and explores the factors dividing the two. It reviews the historical role of theory in psychoanalysis and introduces current work in cognitive psychology.
George Eliot has been widely praised both for the richness of her prose and the universality of her themes. In this compelling study, Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone goes beyond these traditional foci to examine the role of aggression in Eliot's fiction and to find its source in the author's unconscious sense of loss stemming from traumatic family ......
Introduces and develops Lacanian thought concerning the relations among language, subjectivity, and society. This title provides an account of how language both interacts with and constitutes structures of subjectivity, producing specific attitudes and behaviors as well as significant social effects.
J.L. Moreno, the founder of sociodrama and sociometry, is best known for ths impact he had on group psychotherapy, out of which he created psychodrama. This is now one of the most important and popular "creative" therapies, and is widely practised througout the world. The concept of "role" was central to Moreno's theory and throughout his life he played many himself. The authors describe a man who was, among other things, a psychiatrist, dramatist, theologian, inventor and educator, and who made significant contributions in all of these areas in addition to his major influence on social science and group psychotherapy.
This text sets out to demonstrate that a psychoanalytic point of view can enrich one's understanding and appreciation of works of art. It draws on late-1990s psychoanalytic views of the importance of fantasy in order to address the impact of psychoanalysis on the understanding of the visual arts.
Scholars and clinicians from six different countries examine the legacy of one of Freud's disciples and discuss his place in the history of psychoanalysis. In sections on contexts and continuities, disciple and dissident, and theory and technique, they explore the founding of the Budapest school, h
