Unconscious - A Contemporary Introduction

In The Unconscious: A Contemporary Introduction, Joseph Newirth presents a critical and comparative analysis of the unconscious and its evolution from a positivist to a post-modern frame of reference.

List of contents

Introduction: The Ego is not Master in its Own House 1. The Evolution of Freud's theories of the Unconscious 2. The Unconscious in Interpersonal and Relational Psychoanalysis 3. Developmental Perspectives on the Unconscious 4. Kleinian Perspectives on the Unconscious 5. Language, Metaphor and the Unconscious 6. The Unconscious and the Contemporary Subject

About the author

Joseph Newirth is Professor Emeritus at the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University, USA. He is on the faculty of several psychoanalytic institutes and was the Director of the Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis at Adelphi University. His previous books received the Gradiva Prize (2004) and the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize (2019). He is currently in practice in New York City.

Summary

In The Unconscious: A Contemporary Introduction, Joseph Newirth presents a critical and comparative analysis of the unconscious and its evolution from a positivist to a post-modern frame of reference.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Newirth, Joseph (Gordon F. Derner School of Psycho Newirth, Newirth Joseph
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.06.2023
• EAN: 9780367525163
• ISBN: 978-0-367-52516-3
• No. of pages: 114
• Series: Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis