"In Psychoanalysis and Culture Rosalind Minsky provides an engaging version of the theories of Freud, Klein, Winnicott, and Lacan in making a passionate plea for their relevance to understanding the otherwise often overwhelming-seeming alienation, chaos, or complexity of thought and feeling involved in sex, gender, violence, and consumerism in Europe and America at the millennium." Professor Janet Sayers, University of ... Read moreKent "Rosalind Minsky has produced a comprehensive guide to some of the major traditions of psychoanalytic theory, and impressively develops an instructive and engaging dialogue between psychoanalysis and cultural critique." Anthony Elliott, University of Melbourne "[This book] is intelligent, knowledgeable, creative, and remarkably accessible. It lives up to its goal, which is to speculate as to how psychoanalytic theories enable us to see cultural problems more insightfully." Professor Suzanne Juhasz, University of Colorado "An appeal to those seeking to acquaint themselves with a range of psychoanalytic ideas is clearly one of Minsky's principal intentions throughout the book. and she succeeds admirably. Her writing is clear and accessible and the book could stand as a useful introductory text on her key theorists and the similarities and differences between the two major schools of psychoanalysis: Freudian and object-relations" B. Nicol, University College Chichester, Psychoanalytic Studies Show Less