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“sergio benvenuto”

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  • Lacan, Kris and the Psychoanalytic Legacy: The Brain Eater

    by Sergio Benvenuto ...
    Lacan, Kris and the Psychoanalytic Legacy: The Brain Eater examines the case of a scholar which was commented on by three leading psychoanalysts of the 20th century: Melitta Schmideberg, Ernst Kris, and Jacques Lacan.Sergio Benvenuto unpicks the complex case history of the patient he calls "Professor Brain", a man who struggled to publish his research because of his fixation on plagiarism, and who ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Conversations with Lacan

    Seven Lectures for Understanding Lacan

    by Sergio Benvenuto ...
    Conversations with Lacan*: Seven Lectures for Understanding Lacan* brings a unique, non-partisan approach to the work of Jacques Lacan, linking his psychoanalytic theory and ideas to broader debates in philosophy and the social sciences, in a book that shows how it is possible to see the value of Lacanian concepts without necessarily being defined by them.In accessible, conversational language, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • What are Perversions?

    Sexuality, Ethics, Psychoanalysis

    by Sergio Benvenuto ...
    This book explores what we mean when we use the term "perversion." Are we dealing with a sexological classification, a mental disturbance, an ethical deviation, a hedonistic style, or an historical-cultural artifact? The book retraces some of the fundamental stages in the field of psychoanalytic thought-from Freud to Masud Khan, Stoller, and Lacan-and proposes an original approach: that ... Read more

    Was $55.99 USD Now $49.99 USD

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  • Writing in Psychoanalysis

    Edited by Emma Piccioli, Pier L Rossi, Antonio A Semi ...
    A beautiful and thoughtful collection of essays on reading, writing and learning, Writing and Psychoanalysis grows out of a colloquium. The results are wondrous and impact on the reader at many different levels. In the act of writing, we all discover something about what we know previously unknown to us, and we learn more about our inner world that we knew before we set pen to paper (or hand to ... Read more

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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

    $5.99 USD

  • The Psychology of Love

    by Sigmund Freud ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    This volume brings together Freud's main contributions to the psychology of love. His illuminating discussions of the ways in which sexuality is always psychosexuality - that there is no sexuality without fantasy, conscious or unconscious - have changed the ways we think about erotic life. In these papers Freud develops his now famous theories about the sexuality of childhood and the transgressive ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Jacques Lacan, Past and Present

    A Dialogue

    by Alain Badiou, Elisabeth Roudinesco ...
    Translated by Jason E. Smith ...
    In this dialogue, Alain Badiou shares the clearest, most detailed account to date of his profound indebtedness to Lacanian psychoanalysis. He explains in depth the tools Lacan gave him to navigate the extremes of his other two philosophical "masters," Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser. Élisabeth Roudinesco supplements Badiou's experience with her own perspective on the troubled landscape of the ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • 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

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  • Reading Freud

    A Chronological Exploration of Freud's Writings

    by Jean-Michel Quinodoz ...
    Series series New Library of Psychoanalysis Teaching Series
    Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award!Reading Freud provides an accessible outline of the whole of Freud's work from Studies in Hysteria through to An Outline of Psycho-Analysis. It succeeds in expressing even the most complex of Freud's theories in clear and simple language whilst avoiding over-simplification.Each chapter concentrates on an individual text and includes valuable background ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • 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

    $18.00 USD

  • Sigmund Freud

    by Pamela Thurschwell ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Thinkers
    The work of Sigmund Freud has penetrated almost every area of literary theory and cultural studies, as well as contemporary culture. Pamela Thurschwell explains and contextualises psychoanalytic theory and its meaning for modern thinking. This updated second edition explores developments and responses to Freud’s work, including:tracing contexts and developments of Freud’s work over the course of ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Portable Kristeva

    by Julia Kristeva ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    As a linguist, Julia Kristeva has pioneered a revolutionary theory of the sign in its relation to social and political emancipation; as a practicing psychoanalyst, she has produced work on the nature of the human subject and sexuality, and on the "new maladies" of today's neurotic. The Portable Kristeva is the only fully comprehensive compilation of Kristeva's key writings. The second edition ... Read more

    $34.19 USD