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- Publisher:
- Acumen Publishing
- Online publication date:
- February 2013
- Print publication year:
- 2008
- Online ISBN:
- 9781844654055
- Subjects:
- Philosophy: General Interest, Philosophy
Understanding Psychoanalysis presents a broad introduction to the key concepts and developments in psychoanalysis and its impact on modern thought. Charting pivotal moments in the theorization and reception of psychoanalysis, the book provides a comprehensive account of the concerns and development of Freuds work, as well as his most prominent successors, Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan. The work of these leading psychoanalytic theorists has greatly influenced thinking across other disciplines, notably feminism, film studies, poststructuralism, social and cultural theory, the philosophy of science and the emerging discipline of neuropsychoanalysis. Analysing this engagement with other disciplines and their key theorists, Understanding Psychoanalysis argues for a reconsideration of psychoanalysis as a resource for philosophy, science, and cultural studies.
"By far one of the best sources for both undergraduate as well as graduate students wanting to learn about psychoanalysis . . . this is a teaching resource that no one in the field can afford to pass up."
Source: Dialogue
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