Psychoanalysis

Rethinks the significance of the son’s relationship to his father for Freud’s psychoanalytic theory. Aiming to reconceptualize some of Freud’s earliest psychoanalytic thinking, Andrew Barnaby’s Comin …

A collection of essays and pensées from a noted psychoanalyst and Lacanian thinker Inspired by Jacques Lacan’s idea in his Seminar VI that ‘Human beings cannot help but consider themselves to be [.&# …

This book, by a well established author previously writing in a quite different genre, that of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and counselling, is written for an entirely different readership. Patrick …

Gold Winner for Psychology, 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Long stigmatized as Carl Jung’s hysterical mistress, Sabina Spielrein (1885–1942) was in fact a key figure in the history of p …

After the release of D.H Lawrence’s compelling novel, Sons and Lovers, which details a complicated and borderline abusive relationship between a mother and son, many critics sought issues with the co …

In Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the nature of attitudes toward repulsive subjec …

Julia Kristeva examines melancholia across art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, and psychoanalysis. She describes the depressive as one who perceives the sense of self as …

A study of Lacan’s engagement with the Western philosophical traditions of ethical and political thought in his seventh seminar and later work. With its privileging of the unconscious, Jacques Lacan’ …

What kinds of questions do experienced therapists ask themselves when facing a new client? How can clinical expertise be taught? From the author of the landmark Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, this book ta …

Ideas, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centurieswhatever, in the same manner and result is the act known, that the immediate regard of change is considered before the mind as a worthy recognition a …