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  • Evil and Givenness

    The Thanatonic Phenomenon

    by Brian W. Becker ...
    Evil and Givenness: The Thanatonic Phenomenon provides a phenomenological study of evil in its conceptual integrity.Describing a phenomenological situation exclusive to evil in its distinct mode of givenness and manners of manifestation, the account of evil in this book centers on the thanatonic as that phenomenality proper to evil. Although situated within a phenomenology of givenness via Jean ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Unconscious Incarnations

    Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives on the Body

    Edited by Brian W. Becker, John Panteleimon Manoussakis, David M. Goodman ...
    Series series Psychology and the Other
    Unconscious Incarnations considers the status of the body in psychoanalytic theory and practice, bringing Freud and Lacan into conversation with continental philosophy to explore the heterogeneity of embodied life. By doing so, the body is no longer merely an object of scientific inquiry but also a lived body, a source of excessive intuition and affectivity, and a raw animality distinct from mere ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

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  • Loneliness in Philosophy, Psychology, and Literature

    Third Edition

    by Ben Lazare Mijuskovic ...
    Drawing on the fields of psychology, literature, and philosophy, Loneliness in Philosophy, Psychology, and Literature argues that loneliness has been the universal concern of mankind since the Greek myths and dramas, the dialogues of Plato, and the treatises of Aristotle.Author Ben Lazare Mijuskovic, whose insights are culled from both his theoretical studies and his practical experiences, ... Read more

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  • Dictionary of Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling

    by Emmy van Deurzen, Raymond Kenward ...
    The Dictionary of Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling is a comprehensive lexicon of existential terms, their meaning and application. With over 350 entries(cross-referenced throughout), the book is the ideal companion to studying the the ideas of existential pioneers, such as Kierkegaard, Heidegger and Sartre.Drawing on their experience as existential practitioners, Emmy van Deurzen and ... Read more

    $45.89 USD

  • Jouissance

    Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction

    by Darian Leader ...
    Although the term 'jouissance' is common currency in psychoanalysis today, how much does it really tell us? While often taken to designate a fusion of sexuality, suffering and satisfaction, the term has fallen into a purely descriptive use that closes down more questions than it opens up. Although assumed to explain the coalescence of pleasure and pain, it tends to cover a range of quite different ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Lacan

    Edited by Jean-Michel Rabaté ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This collection of specially commissioned essays by academics and practising psychoanalysts, first published in 2003, explores key dimensions of Jacques Lacan's life and works. Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis whose work is still influential in many countries. He refashioned psychoanalysis in the name of philosophy and linguistics at the time when it underwent a certain ... Read more

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  • The Trouble with Pleasure

    Deleuze and Psychoanalysis

    by Aaron Schuster ...
    Series series Short Circuits
    An investigation into the strange and troublesome relationship to pleasure that defines the human being, drawing on the disparate perspectives of Deleuze and Lacan.Is pleasure a rotten idea, mired in negativity and lack, which should be abandoned in favor of a new concept of desire? Or is desire itself fundamentally a matter of lack, absence, and loss? This is one of the crucial issues dividing ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Trauma, Tragedy, Therapy

    The Arts and Human Suffering

    by Stephen K. Levine ...
    Stephen K. Levine's new book explores the nature of traumatic experience and the therapeutic role of the arts and arts therapies in responding to it. It suggests that by re-imagining painful and tragic experiences through art-making, we may release their fixity and negative hold on our lives and resist the temptation to assume the role of the victim. Among the many concerns that the book addresses ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Having A Life

    Self Pathology after Lacan

    by Lewis A. Kirshner ...
    What is it about "having a life"- which is to say, about having a sense of separate existence as a subject or self - that is usually taken for granted but is so fragilely maintained in certain patients and, indeed, in most of us at especially difficult times? In Having A Life: Self Pathology After Lacan, Lewis Kirshner takes this Lacanian question as the point of departure for a thoughtful ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis

    by Dany Nobus ...
    Series series Makers of Modern Psychotherapy
    Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis paints a completely new picture of the man and his ideas. The book suceeds in showing how ideas can become more accessible, and re-evaluates his significance within the field of psychodynamic psychotherapy.The book is structured thematically around five key issues: diagnosis, the analyst's position during the treatment, the management of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing

    Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction

    by Catherine Malabou ...
    Translated by Carolyn Shread ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    A former student and collaborator of Jacques Derrida, Catherine Malabou has generated worldwide acclaim for her progressive rethinking of postmodern, Derridean critique. Building on her notion of plasticity, a term she originally borrowed from Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and adapted to a reading of Hegel's own work, Malabou transforms our understanding of the political and the religious, ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Thinking for Clinicians

    Philosophical Resources for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Humanistic Psychotherapies

    by Donna M. Orange ...
    Thinking for Clinicians provides analysts of all orientations with the tools and context for working critically within psychoanalytic theory and practice. It does this through detailed chapters on some of the philosophers whose work is especially relevant for contemporary theory and clinical writing: Emmanuel Levinas, Martin Buber, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Hans-Georg Gadamer ... Read more

    $54.99 USD