ABSTRACT
"Understanding Psychoanalysis" presents a broad introduction to the key concepts and developments in psychoanalysis and its impact on modern thought. Charting pivotal moments in the theorization and reception of psychoanalysis, the book provides a comprehensive account of the concerns and development of Freud's work, as well as his most prominent successors, Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan.The work of these leading psychoanalytic theorists has greatly influenced thinking across other disciplines, notably feminism, film studies, poststructuralism, social and cultural theory, the philosophy of science and the emerging discipline of neuropsychoanalysis. Analysing this engagement with other disciplines and their key theorists, "Understanding Psychoanalysis" argues for a reconsideration of psychoanalysis as a resource for philosophy, science, and cultural studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |13 pages
Introduction On understanding psychoanalysis
part |64 pages
Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis
chapter |19 pages
Where it was: Freud's biology of the mind
chapter |21 pages
Sexuality and its vicissitudes
chapter |22 pages
To slip, perchance to dream: Freud on the unconscious
part |68 pages
Freud's children
chapter |22 pages
Precarious love: Kleinian object relations theory
chapter |23 pages
Jacques Lacan: rereading Freud to the letter
chapter |21 pages
What does woman want? Feminism and psychoanalysis
part |50 pages
Psychoanalysis and its discontented