Psychoanalysis Outside the Clinic: Interventions in Psychosocial Studies

by Stephen Frosh

Book Overview

More than a hundred years after its founding, psychoanalysis remains influential and controversial far outside its core sphere of activity in the 'clinic'. In a wide range of cultural and social disciplines, psychoanalytic ideas are drawn on to explain human subjectivity and its relationship with the social world.

This lucid and engaging book explores these interventions through detailed examination of how psychoanalytic ideas apply in literature,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230210325
• ISBN13: 9780230210325
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"