Research Catalog

Title

Psychoanalytic theory : an introduction / Anthony Elliott.

Author

Elliott, Anthony, 1964-

Publication

London : Palgrave, 2015.

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Description

x, 206 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"This comprehensive introduction to psychoanalytic theory and its application to the social sciences and humanities is now available in a new and fully revised edition. Elliott provides lucid interpretations of key psychoanalytic theorists and examines the political and cultural dimensions of psychoanalytic studies"--

Subject

• Psychoanalysis
• PSYCHOLOGY / General
• PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Counseling
• PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Psychoanalysis
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
• Psychoanalytic Theory

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- 1. The Making of the Self -- Divergences in Psychoanalytic Theory -- 2. Modern Culture and Its Repressed -- From Freud to Lasch -- 3. Object Relations, Kleinian Theory, Self-Psychology -- From Erikson to Kohut -- 4. Poststructuralist Anxiety: Subjects of Desire -- From Lacan to Derrida -- 5. Psychoanalytic Feminism -- From Chodorow to Butler -- 6. The Dislocating World of Postmodernism -- Identity in Troubled Times -- Conclusion: Psychoanalysis as Critical Theory.

ISBN

• 9781137300829 (hardback)
• 1137300825 (hardback)
• 9781137300836 (paperback)
• 1137300833 (paperback)

LCCN

^^2015013157

OCLC

906798456

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library