ABSTRACT
In Post-Modernism for Psychotherapists (2003), we explore some extracts from the following authors: Lyotard, Baudrillard, Lacan, Derrida, Foucault, Kristeva, Irigaray, Cixous, Deleuze and Guattari, Levinas, Žižek and Wittgenstein. I consider it vital that what has been regarded as existentialism is revisited considering the implications of some of these authors, and in particular, the decentring of the subject, who becomes ‘subject to’. There have also been important criticisms of postmodernism, which are discussed here. Annotated extracts are also provided for these postmodern authors in Loewenthal and Snell (2003), and further reading is given at the end of this chapter.
