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At his death in 1971, Donald Winnicott left unpublished a large number of papers, lectures and other writings which spanned his career of over fort...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

This collection introduces and develops Lacanian thought concerning the relations among language, subjectivity, and society. Lacanian Theory of Dis...

While the theories of Matte Blanco about the structure of the unconscious and the way in which it operates are generally recognised to be the most ...

Dionysus, god of dismemberment and sponsor of the lost or abandoned feminine, originates both Jungian psychology and literature in Remembering Dion...

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

Like most of his theatrical pieces, Félix Guattari’s Parmenides is a brief but extremely suggestive dialogue that brings life to his concerns about...

Like most of his theatrical pieces, Félix Guattari’s Parmenides is a brief but extremely suggestive dialogue that brings life to his concerns about...

Second Revised EditionThe universal phantasy of having a twin originates in our earliest relational experiences. This book is about twins and twinn...

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

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, ...

Psychoanalytic Approaches for Counselors explores Freud’s historical contributions to the theories within this school of thought and demonstrates t...

What makes a person Jewish? Why do some people feel they have physically inherited the memories of their ancestors? Is there any way to think about...

This book reorients the scholarship on Plato by returning readers to his most fundamental insights and reflections on the nature of the human psych...

In this classic work, Didier Anzieu presents and develops his theory of the importance of 'the Skin-ego'. Just as the skin is wrapped around the bo...

Has psychoanalysis become postmodern? How are the various schools of psychoanalysis being altered by postmodernism? What role does psychoanalysis h...

Through the collection of letters sent by members of a Jewish family between 1923 and 1942, this fascinating book explores phenomenological and psy...

What makes a person Jewish? Why do some people feel they have physically inherited the memories of their ancestors? Is there any way to think about...

If Paul Ricoeur is correct in seeing the various currents of contemporary philosophy all converging on the problem of a "grand philosophy of langua...

Modern Man in Search of a Soul is the perfect introduction to the theories and concepts of one of the most original and influential religious think...

The concept of archetypes is at the core of C. G. Jung’s analytical psychology. In this interesting and accessible volume, Roesler summarises the c...

Brilliant and innovative, Jacques Lacan's work has had a tremendous influence on contemporary discourse. Lacan lies at the epicenter of contemporar...

Using vivid case examples, she looks at the "intimate edge", intense encounters and playfulness in a way that is based in traditional psychoanalyti...

Once the basic premise of self psychology - that from birth to death we are utterly dependent on one another for the provision of psychological exp...

This book uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore the ways in which sexual difference can be understood as an encounter with otherness throug...

This book provides easy to read, concise, and clinically useful explanations of over 1800 terms and concepts from the field of psychoanalysis. A hi...