The Seductions of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan and Derrida
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The Seductions of Psychoanalysis reflects on the history of psychoanalysis, its conceptual foundations and its relation to other disciplines. John Forrester probes the origins of psychoanalysis and its most beguiling concept, the transference, which is at once its institutional axis and experimental core. He explores the most seductive of all recent psychoanalytic traditions, that inspired by Jacques Lacan, whose radical questioning of psychoanalytic effects has been continued implicitly by Michel Foucault and explicitly by Jacques Derrida. Other key questions addressed include the significance of speech in the talking cure, and the relationship between the 'real' of psychoanalysis and the fictionality of the 'truth' it offers. Dr Forrester also focuses on the relationship between psychoanalysis and the feminine, on analysis and gossip, on the borderline of seduction and rape, and on the women who have played such a crucial role in the history of psychoanalysis, as patients, analysts or both.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521424666
ISBN13:9780521424660
Release Date:October 1991
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:440 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 5.7" x 8.7"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Not an Introduction!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
When I read "Forrester traces out the lineage from Freud to Lacan to Derrida with great sophistication and erudition..." in the book's description, I wrongly assumed this would be a comprehensive introduction. The essays refer to specific events or "cases studies" without providing background for those of us unaquainted with "the injection dream", for example. I am not in the position to say whether this book is good on its own terms,(that's why I am repeating the previous reviewer's rating) but wanted to help prevent others from buying the wrong book.
Warmly companionable, not coldly academic
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
This book is an excellent introduction for anyone desiring more than a cursory acquaintance with the ideas, practices and consequences of psychoanalysis. Dr Forrester guides us through the historical and philosophical context of his subject without allowing the material to become weighty or dry.
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