The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis

The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis
ISBN-10
0429906595
ISBN-13
9780429906596
Category
Psychology
Pages
302
Language
English
Published
2018-05-08
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Jacques Lacan

Description

The author's writings, and especially the seminars for which he has become famous, have provoked intense controversies in French analytic circles, requiring as they do a radical reappraisal of the legacy bequeathed by Freud. This volume is based on a year's seminar, which is of particular importance because he was addressing a larger, less specialist audience than ever before, amongst whom he could not assume familiarity with his work. For his listeners then, and for his readers now, he wanted "to introduce a certain coherence into the major concepts on which psycho-analysis is based", namely the unconscious, repetition, the transference and the drive. In re-defining these four concepts he explores the question that, as he puts it, moves from "Is psycho-analysis a science?" to "What is a science that includes psycho-analysis?"

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