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Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences
Louis Althusser
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Description for Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences
Hardback. Translator(s): Rendall, Steven. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF7; JHB; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 186 x 14. Weight in Grams: 256.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Condition
New
Weight
255g
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231177641
SKU
V9780231177641
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About Louis Althusser
Louis Althusser (1918-1990) was a French Marxist philosopher and professor of philosophy at the Ecole Normale Superieure. His books include Writings on Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan (Columbia, 1996) and Reading Capital (1965). Steven Rendall is professor emeritus of Romance languages at the University of Oregon. Pascale Gillot is professor of philosophy at the Lycee Henri Moissan and researcher ... Read more
Reviews for Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences
Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences is a significant contribution to the literature. The question of whether psychoanalysis is a science and of its relationship to psychology is very much alive; Althusser's solution was and remains an original one.
William S. Lewis, Skidmore College Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences is short, clear and readable. Its accessibility and lucidity will appeal ... Read more
William S. Lewis, Skidmore College Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences is short, clear and readable. Its accessibility and lucidity will appeal ... Read more