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Psychoanalytic theory : an introduction /

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This comprehensive introduction to psychoanalytic theory and its application to the social sciences and humanities is now available in a new and fully revised edition. Elliott provides lucid interpretations of key psychoanalytic theorists and examines the political and cultural dimensions of psychoa...

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Main Author: Elliott, Anthony, 1964- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Psychoanalysis.
PSYCHOLOGY / General.
PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Counseling.
PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Psychoanalysis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Table of Contents:
  • The making of the self
  • Divergences in psychoanalytic theory
  • Modern culture and its repressed: from Freud to Lasch
  • Object relations, Kleinian theory, self-psychology: from Erikson to Kohut
  • Poststructuralist anxiety: subjects of desire, from Lacan to Derrida
  • Psychoanalytic feminism: from Chodorow to Butler
  • The dislocating world of postmodernism: identity in troubled times
  • Conclusion: psychoanalysis as critical theory.