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- ISBN 9780415915267
- Weight: 470g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jan 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Creating a snapshot of current thinking about psychoanalysis, this lively collection examines the legacy of Freud and Lacan. Through provocative and penetrating arguments, the contributors take psychoanalysis to task for 0ts dark view of human nature, theoretical sorcery, devaluation of femininity, self-referentiality, discipleship, negativity, ignorance of history and more.
The essays also examine the complex relationships between Freudian and Lacanian theory and philosophy, feminism, anthropology, communications theory, deconstruction, Foucauldian genealogy and medical history. The outstanding list of contributors includes Paul Roazen, Francois Roustang, John Forrester, Rodolphe Gasche, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen and Jacques Derrida.
Todd Dufresne teaches at and is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought at York University, Toronto. His work has appeared in TheInternational Journal of Psychoanalysis, PsychoanalyticBooks and The Psychoanalytic Review.
