Routledge Library Editions: Psychoanalysis
About the Book Series
Routledge Library Editions: Psychoanalysis brings together as one set, or individual volumes, a series of 8 previously out-of-print titles, originally published between 1923 and 1993. Written by international authors from a variety of backgrounds, this set looks at psychoanalysis in a number of different areas including, culture, religion, sociology, postmodernism, literary criticism and others.
A Critical Examination of Psycho-Analysis
1st Edition
By A. Wohlgemuth
November 02, 2017
Originally published in 1923, this title is a critical examination of Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis. A contemporary of Freud, the author sets out to evaluate his theories in a scientific manner, searching for evidence. The result is a rather scathing review of where this is lacking....
Psychic Reality and Psychoanalytic Knowing
1st Edition
By Barnaby Barratt
November 02, 2017
How do we know our mental life, and how is our mental life altered by our efforts to know it better? Originally published in 1984, this title attempts an epistemological and ontological discourse concerning the understanding of human mental processes, and it aims toward a definitive thesis on the ...
Psychoanalysis and ...
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Feldstein, Henry Sussman
November 02, 2017
Originally published in 1990, Psychoanalysis and… brings together essays by critics whose work demonstrates the lively interpenetration of psychoanalysis and other disciplines. Andrew Ross investigates psychoanalysis and Marxist thought; Joel Fineman reads the "sound of O" in Othello; Jane Gallop ...
Psychoanalysis and the Postmodern Impulse: Knowing and Being since Freud's Psychology
1st Edition
By Barnaby Barratt
November 02, 2017
According to the author, psychoanalytic theory and practice – which discloses ‘the interminable falsity of the human subject’s belief in the mastery of its own mental life’ – is in part responsible for the coming of the postmodern era. In this title, originally published in 1993, Barratt examines ...
Sex in Christianity and Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
By William Cole
November 02, 2017
Originally published in 1956, this survey of the interpretations of sex by the major figures in Christian thought and in psychoanalysis made an important contribution to the re-thinking of our sexual morality at the time. The author refutes the common belief that the negative attitude toward sex ...
Straight Male Modern: A Cultural Critique of Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
By John Brenkman
November 02, 2017
Major psychoanalytic thinkers from Freud to Ricoeur to Lacan considered the Oedipus complex the key to explaining the human psyche and human sexuality, even culture itself. But, in fact, they were merely theorizing males. In this title, originally published in 1993, the author reassesses the ...
The Psycho-Analysis of the Nursery
1st Edition
By Alice Balint
November 02, 2017
Originally published in English in 1953, this title was first printed in Hungarian in 1931. Already translated into German, French and Spanish, Alice Balint (the first wife of Michael Balint) had intended to translate the title into English herself, but died suddenly at the beginning of the Second ...
Unconscious Contracts: A Psychoanalytical Theory of Society
1st Edition
By Michael Allingham
November 02, 2017
Originally published in 1987 this highly original work explores how the nature and institutions of society are determined by our unconscious as well as our conscious aims – how individuals join together in ‘unconscious contracts’. The author does this by integrating psychoanalysis and social ...
Routledge Library Editions: Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
By Various
November 03, 2015
Routledge Library Editions: Psychoanalysis brings together as one set, or individual volumes, a series of 8 previously out-of-print titles, originally published between 1923 and 1993. Written by international authors from a variety of backgrounds, this set looks at psychoanalysis in a number of ...