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  • Hope

    A Shield in the Economy of Borderline States

    by Anna Potamianou ...
    Series series The New Library of Psychoanalysis
    In the well known myth of Pandora, hope was the last and most need gift at the bottom of a box of myriad misfortunes let loose on an unsuspecting world. For most human beings hope is a positive benefit. Anna Potamianou shows how in the 'borderline' patient hope can become a perverted and omnipotent means of denying reality. Indeed, in such individuals any state of mind or feeling can take on the ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

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  • Lacan

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Lionel Bailly ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Lacan without the jargon!From l'objet petit a to the mirror stage – the ultimate introduction to Lacan's canon'Well-written, carefully structured and broadly accessible.' Dany Nobus, Chair of Psychology and Psychoanalysis, Brunel University and author of Jaques LacanJacques Lacan was one of the most important psychoanalysts ever to have lived. Building upon the work of Sigmund Freud, he sought to ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • An Outline of Psychoanalysis

    by Sigmund Freud ...
    "An Outline of Psychoanalysis" is a seminal treatise by Sigmund Freud. It contains a detailed description of the psychic apparatus; an analysis of the ego; and a discussion of the needs of the id, the superego, and reality. This fascinating text will appeal to those with an interest in psychology and the work of Sigmund Freud, and it would make for a worthy addition to any personal library. The ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond the Pleasure Principle

    by Sigmund Freud ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    A collection of some of Freud's most famous essays, including ON THE INTRODUCTION OF NARCISSISM; REMEMBERING, REPEATING AND WORKING THROUGH; BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE; THE EGO AND THE ID and INHIBITION, SYMPTOM AND FEAR. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Introduction to the Reading of Lacan

    The Unconscious Structured Like a Language

    by Joel Dor ...
    Series series Lacanian Clinical Field
    About this Book..."A major and long overdue addition to the America/English psychoanalytic literature. . . . All major concepts—among them the mirror stage, the Name-of-the-Father, metaphor and metonymy, the phallus, the foreclosure of the subject—are developed in depth."-Nicholas Kouretsas, Harvard Medical School ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • The Psychoses

    The Seminar of Jacques Lacan

    by Jacques Lacan ...
    During the third year of his famous seminar, Jacques Lacan gives a concise definition of psychoanalysis: 'Psychoanalysis should be the science of language inhabited by the subject. From the Freudian point of view man is the subject captured and tortured by language.' Since psychosis is a special but emblematic case of language entrapment, Lacan devotes much of this year to grappling with ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Jouissance

    Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction

    by Darian Leader ...
    Although the term 'jouissance' is common currency in psychoanalysis today, how much does it really tell us? While often taken to designate a fusion of sexuality, suffering and satisfaction, the term has fallen into a purely descriptive use that closes down more questions than it opens up. Although assumed to explain the coalescence of pleasure and pain, it tends to cover a range of quite different ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Psychic Retreats

    Pathological Organizations in Psychotic, Neurotic and Borderline Patients

    by John Steiner ...
    Series series The New Library of Psychoanalysis
    Essentially clinical in its approach, Psychic Retreats discusses the problem of patients who are 'stuck' and with whom it is difficult to make meaningful contact. John Steiner, an experienced psychoanalyst, uses new developments in Kleinian theory to explain how this happens.He examines the way object relationships and defences can be organized into complex structures which lead to a personality ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • On Private Madness

    by Andre Green ...
    The author occupies a unique position in psychoanalysis today, and his work represents a synthesis of the traditions of Lacan, Winnicott and Bion. This volume collects fourteen of his papers together with a substantial introduction. The papers range widely across clinical and theoretical issues including borderline states, the true and false self, and narcissism. On Private Madness has achieved ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Trauma, Tragedy, Therapy

    The Arts and Human Suffering

    by Stephen K. Levine ...
    Stephen K. Levine's new book explores the nature of traumatic experience and the therapeutic role of the arts and arts therapies in responding to it. It suggests that by re-imagining painful and tragic experiences through art-making, we may release their fixity and negative hold on our lives and resist the temptation to assume the role of the victim. Among the many concerns that the book addresses ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Lacan's Seminar On Anxiety

    An Introduction

    by Roberto Harari ...
    Series series Lacanian Clinical Field
    Designed for novices as well as students of psychology and literary criticism, these systematic lectures do much to clarify Lacan's groundbreaking work on the birth of the subject and its links with Freud's theory of drives. Moreover, they answer some of the criticisms that have been leveled at Lacan by forms of psychoanalysis unable or unwilling to incorporate his ideas. ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Reading French Psychoanalysis

    Edited by Dana Birksted-Breen, Sara Flanders, Alain Gibeault ...
    Series series New Library of Psychoanalysis Teaching Series
    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 ... Read more

    $135.99 CAD