Reading French Psychoanalysis Paperback / softback
Edited by Sara (Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, British Psychoanalytical Society, UK) Flanders, Alain (Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, Paris Psychoanalytical Society, France) Gibeault, Dana (Training and Supervising Analyst, British Psychoanalytical Society, UK) Birksted-Breen
Part of the New Library of Psychoanalysis Teaching Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
How has psychoanalysis developed in France in the years since Lacan so dramatically polarized the field?In this book, Dana Birksted-Breen and Sara Flanders of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and Alain Gibeault of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society provide an overview of how French psychoanalysis has developed since Lacan.
Focusing primarily on the work of psychoanalysts from the French Psychoanalytical Association and from the Paris Psychoanalytical Society, the two British psychoanalysts view the evolution of theory as it appears to them from the outside, while the French psychoanalyst explains and elaborates from inside the French psychoanalytic discourse.
Seminal and representative papers have been chosen to illuminate what is special about French thinking.
A substantial general introduction argues in favour of the specificity of 'French psychoanalysis', tracing its early influences and highlighting specific contemporary developments. Sections are made up of introductory material by Alain Gibeault, followed by illustrative papers in the following categories:the history of psychoanalysis in Francethe pioneers and their legacythe setting and the process of psychoanalysisphantasy and representationthe body and the drivesmasculine and feminine sexualitypsychosis. An excellent introduction to French psychoanalytical debate, Reading French Psychoanalysis sheds a complementary light on thinking that has evolved differently in England and North America.
It will be ideal reading for beginners and advanced students of clinical theory as well as experienced psychoanalysts wanting to know more about French Psychoanalytic theory, and how it has developed.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:840 pages, 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:21/12/2009
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- ISBN:9780415485036
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:840 pages, 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:21/12/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415485036
