The seductions of psychoanalysis : Freud, Lacan, and Derrida / John Forrester.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forrester, John, 1949-2015.

Series:

Cambridge studies in French

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Derrida, Jacques.

Derrida, Jacques, 1930-.

Medical Subjects:

Psychoanalysis.

Local Subjects:

Derrida, Jacques, 1930-.

Physical Description:

xii, 421 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Summary:

The seductions of psychoanalysis reflects on the history of psychoanalysis, its conceptual foundations and its relations to other disciplines. John Forrester probes the origin of psychoanalysis and explores the most seductive of all recent psychoanalytic traditions, that inspired by Jacques Lacan.

Contents:

The Temptation of Sigmund Freud

The true story of Anna O.

Contracting the disease of love: authority and freedom in the origins of psychoanalysis

The untold pleasures of psychoanalysis: Freud, Dora and the Madonna

Rape, seduction, psychoanalysis

' ... a perfect likeness of the past'

The Moment Of Jacques Lacan

In place of an introduction: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan. Books I and II

What the psychoanalyst does with words: Austin, Lacan and the speech acts of psychoanalysis

Dead on time: Lacan's theory of temporality

The Destiny Of Psychoanalysis

Who is in analysis with whom? Freud, Lacan, Derrida

Psychoanalysis: gossip, telepathy and/or science?

Transference and the stenographer: on Dostoevsky's The gambler

Michel Foucault and the history of psychoanalysis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-404) and index.

ISBN:

0521372437

9780521372435

0521424666

9780521424660

OCLC:

19553319

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