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Writings on Psychoanalysis : Freud and Lacan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural CriticismPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 1996Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (207 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780585041476
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Writings on Psychoanalysis : Freud and LacanDDC classification:
  • 150.19
LOC classification:
  • BF109.F74 A82513
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Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Translator's Preface -- Introduction -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: With several never-before published writings, this volume gathers Althusser's major essays on psychoanalytic thought----documenting his intense and ambivalent relationship with Lacan, and dramatizing his intellectual journey and troubled personal life.
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With several never-before published writings, this volume gathers Althusser's major essays on psychoanalytic thought----documenting his intense and ambivalent relationship with Lacan, and dramatizing his intellectual journey and troubled personal life.

Intro -- Contents -- Translator's Preface -- Introduction -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- Notes -- Index.

With several never-before published writings, this volume gathers Althusser's major essays on psychoanalytic thought----documenting his intense and ambivalent relationship with Lacan, and dramatizing his intellectual journey and troubled personal life.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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CHOICE Review

The first two paragraphs of translator Mehlman's preface set the tone for this book of writings by French philosopher-communist Althusser: pompous, trivial, and highly arcane. The second paragraph certainly should get the New Yorker magazine's "Block That Metaphor" award of the decade. To say that Althusser was a devout believer in psychoanalysis would be an understatement. Yet there are few (if any) useful insights into psychoanalysis in this collection of writings. Althusser appears to have an intense interest in French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, but their mutual correspondence falls short of revealing anything bordering on the profound. These are not useful, highly insightful, nor even interesting "writings on psychoanalysis" as the title of this book might promise. F. L. Coolidge; University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

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