Anthony Elliott

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Psychoanalytic Theory: An Introduction

Beschreibung

This comprehensive introduction to psychoanalytic theory and its application in the social sciences and humanities is now available in a new and fully revised edition. Elliott provides lucid interpretations of key psychoanalytic theorists such as Freud, Klein, Winnicott, Kohut, Lacan, Laplanche and Kristeva. He also examines the political and cultural dimensions of psychoanalytic studies, from feminism to postmodernism. Much of the text is completely new, covering issues ranging from psychoanalytic approaches to race and post-colonialism to the re-framing of sexuality studies in the light of recent advances in feminist thinking. As a result, ‘Psychoanalytic Theory: An Introduction’ is a major teaching and research text.

Table of contents:
Introduction
The Making of the Self
Modern Culture and Its Repressed
Object Relations, Kleinian Theory, Self-Psychology
Poststructuralist Anxiety: Subjects of Desire
Psychoanalytic Feminism
The Dislocating World of Postmodernism
Conclusion: Psychoanalysis as Critical Theory
Notes
Further Reading
Index

Autor

ANTHONY ELLIOTT is Professor of Social and Political Theory at the University of the West of England, where he is Director of the Centre for Critical Theory. His recent books include ‘Subject to Ourselves’, ‘Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition’ (Free Association Books), ‘The Mourning of John lennon’, and ‘Concepts of the Self’ (Polity). He is editor of ‘Freud 2000’ (Polity)and co-editor of ‘Psychoanalysis at its Limits’.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• 2nd edition
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780333919125
• ISBN-10: 0333919122
• Artikelnr.: 22318222