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" ... These lectures provide an extremely clear, readable, and at times amusing exposition of Jung's theories. In them Jung not only describes his views on the structure of the mind, giving lucid accounts of his psychological types, of the personal and collective unconscious and of archetypes, but also explains vividly his techniques of dream analysis and active imagination and the role played by transference in analytic therapy."--Charles Rycroft,...
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Psychoanalysis has had a profound influence on 20th-century thought in a wide variety of areas, from psychology and psychiatry to sociology, literature, feminism and politics. Most importantly, it offers insights into the relationship between individual subjectivity and social relations, making it a key discipline for understanding the links between social phenomena and personal experience.
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"Louise J. Kaplan, author of Female Perversion, explores the "fetishism strategy" in her new book, Cultures of Fetishism. The fetishism strategy is a psychological defense that aims to tame, subdue, and quell human vitalities. Challenging conventional notions of human psychology, Kaplan argues that fetishism is not just about enhancing sexual excitement." "She demonstrates the intertwined relationships between the erotic and the destructive, between...
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Psychoanalysis has long been charged as being a pseudoscience. This timely book explores and reexamines the nature of psychoanalysis within contemporary debates about science, epistemology, unconscious experience, and the philosophy of mind. Distinguished scholars and practitioners from diverse backgrounds in psychoanalysis, philosophy, and psychology offer both favorable and critical accounts of psychoanalytic theory and practice from Freud and Lacan...
12) The Freud reader
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Provides fifty-one texts spanning Freud's career, including his writings on psychoanalysis, mind, dreams, sexuality, literature, religion, art, politics, and culture.
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"[This book] is intended as a methodological guide to a group of semiotic writings frequently taught in advanced undergraduate courses in North America and Britain, writings that are for the most part available in English. It should therefore be viewed as a supplementary and explanatory text rather than as one that precedes the reading of any primary semiotic materials."--Preface.
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Often derided as unscientific and self-indulgent, psychoanalysis has been an invaluable resource for artists, art critics and historians throughout the twentieth century. 'Art and Psychoanalysis' investigates these encounters. The dynamics of the dream-work, Freud's 'familiar unfamiliar', fetishism, visual mastery, abjection, repetition, and the death drive are explored through detailed analysis of artists ranging from Max Ernst to Louise Bourgeois,...
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"Daniel Pick provides a lucid, lively, and wide-ranging survey of psychoanalysis while exploring the particular challenges that now face the analytic profession. Offering a flavour of what it might be like to enter treatment, Pick illustrated why psychoanalysis can provide a unique form of therapy and an important resource for investigating the mind, its creative functioning and many afflictions."
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