Psychoanalysis at Its Limits: Navigating the Postmodern Turn - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1853434647 ISBN 13: 9781853434648

Publisher: Free Association Books, 1999

Synopsis

Has psychoanalysis become "postmodern"? How are the various schools of psychanalysis being altered by postmodernism? What role does psychoanalysis have to play in the cultural debate in postmodern times? This is 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, giving a critical survey of the complex relations between desire, selfhood and culture. Among the contributors are: Jessica Benjamin, Jane Flax, Stephen Frosh, Thomas Ogden, Stephen Mitchell, Karen Peoples and Mark Bracher.

About this title

From the Publisher

Anthony Elliott is Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne. He is author of Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition (2nd edition, 1999) also published by Free Association Books and of Freud 2000 (1998). Charles Spezzano is a psychoanalyst in private practice at The Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, San Francisco. Among is previous books are Affect in Psychoanalysis (1993).

Edition details

• Publisher: Free Association Books
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853434647
• ISBN 13: 9781853434648
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Elliott Anthony, Spezzano Charles, Elliot Anthony