The International Psychoanalytical Association Contemporary Freud Turning Points and Critical Issues Series
About the Book Series
This series considers at least two lines of development: a contemporary reading of Freud that reclaims his contributions and a clarification of the logical and epistemic perspectives from which he is read today.
Other series published by the IPA:
The International Psychoanalytical Association Controversies in Psychoanalysis series
The International Psychoanalytical Association Current Challenges in Psychoanalysis series
The International Psychoanalytical Association International Psychoanalysis Library
The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications series
The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Classics Revisited
On Freud's A Child is Being Beaten
1st Edition
By Ethel Spector Person
June 01, 2013
Presents a classic essay by Sigmund Freud, followed by discussions that set Freud's work in context and demonstrate its contemporary relevance. The contributors to this volume represent diverse perspectives from different regions of the psychoanalytic world....
On Freud's Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety
1st Edition
Edited
By Samuel Arbiser, Jorge Schneider
March 01, 2013
Besides constituting a fundamental milestone in contemporary Western thought, Sigmund Freud's monumental corpus of work laid the theoretical-technical foundations on which psychoanalysts based the construction and development of the comprehensive edifice in which they abide today. This edifice, so ...
Freud's On Narcissism: An Introduction
1st Edition
By Peter Fonagy
December 31, 2012
On Narcissism: An Introduction is a densely packed essay dealing with ideas that are still being debated today - from the role of narcissism in normal and pathological development and the relationship of narcissism to homosexuality, libido, romantic love, and self-esteem to issues of therapeutic ...
On Freud's On Beginning the Treatment
1st Edition
Edited
By Gennaro Saragnano, Christian Seulin
December 31, 2012
Like his other papers on technique, Freud's 1913 essay "On beginning the treatment" had an enduring influence on psychoanalysts for generations to come, providing them with a solid and worldwide-accepted conceptual basis on how to initiate psychoanalytic treatments. After a century of clinical ...
On Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle
1st Edition
Edited
By Salman Akhtar, Mary Kay O'Neil
December 31, 2011
Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle constitutes a major landmark and a real turning point in the evolution of psychoanalytic theory. Pushing aside the primacy of the tension-discharge-gratification model of mental dynamics, this work introduced the notion of a "daemonic force" within all human ...
On Freud's Constructions in Analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Sergio Lewkowicz, Thierry Bokanowski, Georges Pragier
December 31, 2011
In Constructions in Analysis Freud introduces the notion of constructions, different from interpretation, and considers it necessary - under certain conditions - to reconstruct a part of the infantile history of the subject. The difference between construction and reconstruction as well as which ...
On Freud's Negation
1st Edition
Edited
By Salman Akhtar, Mary Kay O'Neil
December 31, 2011
Ever since Freud proposed that certain ideas can be permitted to become conscious only in their inverted and negative forms, interest has grown into the entire realm of the presence of absence, so to speak. Or, perhaps, it is better to term such mental contents as the presence in the form of ...
On Freud's Femininity
1st Edition
Edited
By Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose, Leticia Glocer Fiorini
December 31, 2010
In this book a group of contemporary psychoanalytic authors dedicated to studies on women and the feminine have been assembled with the objective of displaying points of concordance and discordance in relation to Freudian proposals. Discourse on women has changed greatly since Freud's time. It ...
On Freud's Mourning and Melancholia
1st Edition
By Thierry Bokanowski
December 31, 2009
Both melancholia and mourning are triggered by the same thing, that is, by loss. The distinction often made is that mourning occurs after the death of a loved one while in melancholia the object of love does not qualify as irretrievably lost....
On Freud's Splitting of the Ego in the Process of Defence
1st Edition
Edited
By Thierry Bokanowski, Sergio Lewkowicz
December 31, 2009
This book includes the development of the concept of "splitting" from both metapsychological and clinical perspectives, emphasizing the great importance of this topic for contemporary psychoanalysis. Starting with the history of the concept, the book covers recent French, English and Latin American...
On Freud's The Future of an Illusion
1st Edition
Edited
By Mary Kay O'Neil, Salman Akhtar
December 31, 2009
"The Future of an Illusion" reveals Freud's reflections about religion as well as his hope that in the future science will go beyond religion, and reason will replace faith in God. The discussion with an imaginary critic revealed his internal debate, mirroring the debate about this subject in the ...
On Freud's Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
1st Edition
Edited
By Ethel Spector Person
May 01, 2001
The sixth volume in the series "Contemporary Freud: Turning Points and Critical Issues," published with the International Psychoanalytic Association, turns to Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921). In this classic text Freud offered an analysis of the roots of group identity, of...