The Seductions of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan and Derrida (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521424660)

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.

Author: John Forrester
ISBN-10: 0521424666
ISBN-13: 9780521424660
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/25/1991
Pages: 440
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.68w x 1.10d