What Is Psychoanalysis?

Barratt, Barnaby B

ISBN 10: 0415692741 / ISBN 13: 9780415692748

Published by Routledge, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What Is Psychoanalysis?
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415692741
• ISBN 13: 9780415692748
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

2020 American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis (ABAPsa) book award winner!

In a radically powerful interpretation of the human condition, this book redefines the discipline of psychoanalysis by examining its fundamental assumptions about the unconscious mind, the nature of personal history, our sexualities, and the significance of the "Oedipus Complex". With striking originality, Barratt explains the psychoanalytic way of exploring our inner realities, and criticizes many of the schools of "psychoanalytic psychotherapy" that emerged and prospered during the 20th century.

In 1912, Sigmund Freud formed a "Secret Committee", charged with the task of protecting and advancing his discoveries. In this book, Barratt argues both that this was a major mistake, making the discipline more like a religious organization than a science, and that this continues to infuse psychoanalytic institutes today. What is Psychoanalysis? takes each of the four "fundamental concepts" that Freud himself said were the cornerstones of his science of healing, and offers a fresh and detailed re-examination of their contemporary importance.

Barratt's analysis demonstrates how the profound work, as well as the playfulness, of psychoanalysis, provides us with a critique of the ideologies that support oppression and exploitation on the social level. It will be of interest to advanced students of clinical psychology or philosophy, as well as psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.

About the Author

Barratt, Barnaby B