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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812581803321

Autore

Althusser Louis <1918-1990, >

Titolo

Psychoanalysis and the human sciences / / Louis Althusser ; translated by Steven Rendall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-231-54210-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (145 pages)

Collana

European Perspectives

Disciplina

150.195

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis - Philosophy

Psychology - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Editor’s Preface -- 1. The Place of Psychoanalysis in the Human Sciences -- 2. Psychoanalysis and Psychology -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

What can psychoanalysis, a psychological approach developed more than a century ago, offer us in an age of rapidly evolving, hard-to-categorize ideas of sexuality and the self? Should we abandon Freud's theories completely or adapt them to new findings and the new relationships taking shape in modern liberal societies? In a remarkably prescient series of lectures delivered in the early 1960s, the French philosopher Louis Althusser anticipated the challenges that psychoanalytic theory would face as politics moved away from structuralist frameworks and toward the elastic possibilities of anthropological and sociological thought. Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences translates Althusser's remarkable seminars into English for the first time, making available to a wider audience the origins and potential future of radical political theory. Althusser takes the important step in these lectures of distinguishing psychoanalysis from psychology and especially psychiatry, which long resisted Freud's analytical concepts of the unconscious and overdetermination. By freeing psychoanalysis from this bind, Althusser can then apply these analytical concepts to the social and the political, integrated with



Marxist theory. The result is an enlivened methodology for comprehending social organization and change that had a profound influence on the Frankfurt School and scholars who continue to work at the forefront of radical thought today: Judith Butler, Étienne Balibar, and Alain Badiou.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910891474803321

Titolo

African journal of law and criminology : AJLC

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Sacha International Academic Journals, 2011-

ISSN

2045-8525

Descrizione fisica

Online-Ressource

Classificazione

2,1

Disciplina

340

Soggetti

Zeitschrift

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

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