Overview
- Argues that psychoanalytic theory and practice is structured by five threshold concepts
- Examines post-Freudian paradigms employed in neuropsychoanalysis, Lacan, Zizek and identity politics
- Demonstrates how Freud both grounds psychoanalysis in neurology and challenges the brain sciences
Part of the book series: The Palgrave Lacan Series (PALS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book sets out to clarify five key Freudian concepts (the pleasure principle, the primary processes, the unconscious, transference, and the reality principle) elaborated early on in Freud’s work but, it is argued, rarely understood—even by psychoanalysts themselves. It examines in turn the post-Freudian paradigms employed in neuropsychoanalysis, Lacan, Zizek, object relations, and psychoanalytic approaches to identity politics, and in doing so reveals the extent to which they have been distorted and repressed in these new contexts. Over the course of the book the author demonstrates how Freud’s unpublished Project for a Scientific Psychology can be seen as a complete system of core concepts that both ground psychoanalysis in neurology and also introduce a vital challenge to the brain sciences. This book will appeal to students and scholars of psychoanalysis, clinical psychology, and psychoanalytic theory.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: (Mis)Understanding Freud with Lacan, Zizek, and Neuroscience
Authors: Robert Samuels
Series Title: The Palgrave Lacan Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13327-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13326-8Published: 18 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13329-9Published: 19 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-13327-5Published: 17 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2946-4196
Series E-ISSN: 2946-420X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 196
Topics: Psychoanalysis, Psychology, general, Clinical Psychology, Cultural Theory, Neuropsychology