Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences

by Louis Althusser

Book Overview

What can psychoanalysis, a psychological approach developed more than a century ago, offer us in an age of rapidly evolving, hard-to-categorize ideas of sexuality and the self? Should we abandon Freud's theories completely or adapt them to new findings and the new relationships taking shape in modern liberal societies? In a remarkably prescient series of lectures delivered in the early 1960s, the French philosopher Louis Althusser anticipated the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231177658
• ISBN13: 9780231177658
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 6.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher