Psychoanalytical Theory (Freudian Psychology)

‘I can understand myself only in the light of inner happenings. It is these that make up the singularity of my life, and with these my...

In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions betw...

Humankind has a profound and complex relationship with the sea, a relationship that is extensively reflected in biology, psychology, religion, lite...

At his death in 1971, Donald Winnicott left unpublished a large number of papers, lectures and other writings which spanned his career of over fort...

What happens when the intellectual giant of twentieth-century literature, James Joyce, is made an object of consideration and cause of desire by th...

Charts the development of Ferenczi's 'Active Technique' in papers such as "The Technique of Psychoanalysis" and "Further Development of an Active T...

The law of the mother is made up of words charged with pleasure and suffering that leave their mark on us in early childhood. In this groundbreakin...

Every country unconsciously creates the psychoanalysis it needs, says Edith Kurzweil. Freudians everywhere, even the most orthodox, are influenced ...

In a draft attached to a letter to his friend and confidante Wilhelm Fliess (May 31, 1897), Freud develops an idea: The mechanism of fiction is the...

Through an integrated multi-disciplinary theory, Michael Robbins proposes that the human mind consists of two mental structures: the one we share w...

This final volume includes "Confusion of Tongues Between Children and Adults" in which Ferenczi formulates his controversal ideas on childhood sexu...

A collection of writings offering a comprehensive overview of object relations theories

Structuralism began in linguistics and was enlarged by Claude Levi-Strauss into a new way of thinking that views our world as consisting of relatio...

What is it that makes language powerful? This book uses the psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism and libidinal investment to explain how rhetoric ...

Queer Politics in India simultaneously tells two interconnected stories. The first explores the struggle against violence and marginalization by qu...

Originally published in 1990, Psychoanalysis and… brings together essays by critics whose work demonstrates the lively interpenetration of psychoan...

We live in a society that ignores and disregards attachment needs and feelings. Starting from this consideration, the author describes the stages o...