Psychoanalysis at its Limits

Navigating the Postmodern Turn
Herausgeber: Elliott, Anthony; Spezzano, Charles

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Produktbeschreibung

Psychoanalysis at its Limits offers an account of the complex and contradictory nature of psychoanalysis in the postmodern age. It presents a history and critique of the concept of postmodernism throughout contemporary psychoanalytic thought. It is a critical survey of relations between desire, selfhood and culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9781138353770
• ISBN-10: 1138353779
• Artikelnr.: 60021748

Autorenporträt

Anthony Elliott, Charles Spezzano

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Rethinking
Psychoanalysis in the Postmodern Era 1. Psychoanalysis at its Limits:
Navigating the Postmodern Turn 2. Final Analysis: Can Psychoanalysis
Survive in the Postmodern West? 3. Postmodernism and the Adoption of
Identity 4. The Shadow of the Other Subject: Intersubjectivity and Feminist
Theory 5. The Ambivalence of Identity: Psychoanalytic Theory in the Space
Between Modernity and Postmodernity 6. Lacanian Psychoanalysis and
Postmodernism 7. From Ghosts to Ancestors: The Psychoanalytic Vision of
Hans Loewald 8. The Dialectically Constituted/Decentred Subject of
Psychoanalysis 9. Why the Self Is, and Is Not, Empty: Trauma and
Transcendence in the Postmodern Psyche 10. The Struggle to Imagine Index