ABSTRACT

During the last decade and a half there have been dramatic changes in psychoanalytic theory, as well as in cultural, social and political theory. Psychoanalysis in Contexts examines these changes and explores the relationship between psychoanalysis and theory.
The volume brings together leading scholars and practitioners in psychoanalysis to develop a unique rethinking of the relations between subjectivity and inter-subjectivity, sexual difference and gender power, and unconscious desire and political change.
Psychoanalysis in Contexts creates a dialogue between different psychoanalytic approaches to the study of subjectivity, social action and modern societies. It will be essential reading for everyone interested in the future direction of psychoanalytic and cultural theory.

part |74 pages

Subjectivity and intersubjectivity

part |102 pages

The dynamics of difference

chapter |17 pages

Sameness and difference

Toward an ‘over-inclusive' theory of gender development

chapter |19 pages

Consuming male fantasy

Feminist psychoanalysis retold

part |57 pages

Modern conditions, psychoanalytic controversies

chapter |14 pages

From Hiroshima to the Gulf War and after

A psychoanalytic perspective

chapter |23 pages

Lacan, Klein and politics

The positive and negative in psychoanalytic thought