Passion in Theory: Conceptions of Freud and Lacan

by Robyn Ferrell

Philosophy had either ignored or attacked psychoanalysis: such responses are neither warranted nor helpful. One hundred years after its inception, isn't it time to find out what psychoanalysis has to offer us? In Passion in Theory Robyn Ferrell does just that, and returns with some surprising answers.
Concentrating on the work of Freud and Lacan, Robyn Ferrell asks why their work had been so influential in European philosophy yet so marginal in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415090199
• ISBN13: 9780415090193
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.7"