Psychoanalysis in Context: Paths Between Theory and Modern Culture

by Stephen Frosh (editor), Stephen Frosh (Editor)

Psychoanalysis in Contexts provides a comprehensive guide to the major traditions and trends in contemporary psychoanalytic critique. The volume brings together leading theorists to debate central issues of subjectivity, sexuality, gender identity, cultural reproduction and politics. Accordingly the book ranges widely across the major debates in psychoanalytic theory today and examines the key conceptual changes that have occurred in recent decades. Traditions of thought discussed include Freudian theory, object relations theory, Kleinian theory, Lacanian and post-structural psychoanalysis, post-Lacanian and postmodern theories.

Contributors: C. Castoriadis, A. Elliott, P. Dews, D. Macey, N. Chodorow, J. Benjamin, J. Sayers, M. Sprengnether, S. Frosh, H. Segal., M. Rustin, and J. Kovel.

272 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Stephen Frosh has worked at Birkbeck from 1979, first in the School of Psychology and since 2008 in the Department of Psychosocial Studies, of which he was a founding member and first Head of Department. From 1982 until 2000 he worked part time at Birkbeck and part time as a clinical psychologist in the NHS. Throughout the 1990s he was Consultant Clinical Psychologist and (from 1996) Vice Dean in the Child and Family Department of the Tavistock Clinic, London. His academic interests are in the applications of psychoanalysis to social issues; gender, culture and ‘race’; and psychosocial studies. He was Pro-Vice-Master of Birkbeck from 2003 to 2017, first with responsibility for Learning and Teaching, then for Research and then for Internationalisation