Psychoanalytic theory : an introduction /
Anthony Elliott.
- Third edition.
- x, 206 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The making of the self -- Divergences in psychoanalytic theory -- Modern culture and its repressed: from Freud to Lasch -- Object relations, Kleinian theory, self-psychology: from Erikson to Kohut -- Poststructuralist anxiety: subjects of desire, from Lacan to Derrida -- Psychoanalytic feminism: from Chodorow to Butler -- The dislocating world of postmodernism: identity in troubled times -- Conclusion: psychoanalysis as critical theory.
"This comprehensive introduction to psychoanalytic theory and its application to the social sciences and humanities is now available in a new and fully revised edition. Elliott provides lucid interpretations of key psychoanalytic theorists and examines the political and cultural dimensions of psychoanalytic studies"-- Provided by publisher.