Seductions of Psychoanalysis Freud, Lacan and Derrida

Name: Seductions of Psychoanalysis Freud, Lacan and Derrida
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ISBN: 9780521424660

ISBN-10: 0521424666

ISBN-13: 9780521424660

Edition: 1991

Authors: John Forrester, Michael Sheringham

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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…

Book details

List price: $57.99
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/25/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.54" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

John Forrester is Reader in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University.



Acknowledgements


List of abbreviations


Introduction



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


A note on translation



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


Bibliography


Index