Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis (from Greek: ψυχή, psykhḗ, 'soul' + ἀνάλυσις, análysis, 'investigate') is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques used to study the unconscious mind, which together form a method of treatment for mental disorders. The discipline was established in the early 1890s by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud, who retained the term psychoanalysis for his own school of thought. Freud's work stems partly from the clinical work of Josef Breuer and others. Psychoanalysis was later developed in different directions, mostly by students of Freud, such as Alfred Adler and his collaborator, Carl Gustav Jung, as well as by neo-Freudian thinkers, such …

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AUP: Athabasca University Press · 18 July 2023 English

“A compelling book about the heart of reading. Conway affirms the primordial relationship between the word and the world and helps us read anything, including ourselves, with seriousness and care.”

especially encouraged: continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, the Frankfurt and Birmingham schools of cultural


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2023 English

In the nineteenth century France became fixated on infant sleep. Pictures of sleeping babies proliferated in paintings, posters, and advertisements for cradles and toys. Childcare manuals and medical writings insisted …

design and consumerism, feminist critique, and psychoanalysis. By addressing visual and material culture


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2023 English

In the wake of the #MeToo movement, gender scholars and activists have asked whether a reconcilliation between Zionism and feminism is possible in the current political landscape. Fictions of Gender …

Israel/Palestine. Zionist Oedipus: Masculinity, Psychoanalysis, and the Symbolic Family Gender has long fertilizing the motherland?10 The centrality of psychoanalysis in this discourse is further underscored in Zionism, psychoanalysis, and masculinity in which he discusses Zionism and psychoanalysis as complementary Western gender stereotypes.11 In this context, psychoanalysis fleshes out the affinity between the gendered


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 May 2023 English

As LSD moves towards the medical mainstream, it continues to evoke powerful memories of the psychedelic sixties and west coast counterculture. In this lively account, Chris Elcock follows a different …

advertising, pharmaceutical development, psychoanalysis, jazz, the arts, and the avant-garde, postwar interest in the latest intellectual trends was psychoanalysis, which “promised not only hedonistic self-fulfillment why Luhan’s combined interests in peyote, psychoanalysis, and unusual states of consciousness were not the same time, Abraham Brill realized that psychoanalysis needed to join forces with psychiatry to become become more legitimate, and by 1934 psychoanalysis was part of that discipline thanks to his efforts


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 February 2023 English

We are living in a time of acute vulnerability. From climate change to drone warfare, terrorist attacks to mass shootings, safe spaces to trigger warnings, not to mention the COVID-19 …

have become free in our relations to sex. Psychoanalysis or Cosmopolitan, for that matter, are no better


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 December 2022 English

A place comes into existence through the depth of relationships that underwrite a physical location with layers of sedimented names. In Place Matters scholars and artists conduct varied forms of …

glue that inhibits analysis while inviting a psychoanalysis of its agency as a force of attachment. Landscape


RSC: Royal Society of Canada · 12 December 2022 French

He was a Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor, a Commander in the French Order of Arts and Letters, and a Member of the Royal Society of Canada. [...] …

also interested in linguistics, philosophy and psychoanalysis. She was a pioneer in discourse analysis and


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 21 October 2022 English

The Etruscans, a revenant and unusual people, had an Italian empire before the Greeks and Romans did. By the start of the Christian era their wooden temples and writings had …

history and biography; at least two draw on psychoanalysis; six rely on art history; myth history, film


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2022 English

For more than a century, posters, advertisements, and brochures have characterized Canada as a desirable tourist destination offering spectacular scenery, wild animals, outdoor recreation, and state-of-the-art accommodations. However, these explicitly …

postcolonialism, post- modernism, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, reception theory, and semiotics, have shaped


UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 30 June 2022 English

Much of the waste in public administration is ascribable to the displacement of the primary concern for performance and coordination by a primary concern for redistribution. In each sphere of …

thinking, the skill set that emerges from this psychoanalysis of emerging and established leaders is, not


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