The Seductions of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan and Derrida

by John Forrester and John Forrester

Book Overview

The Seductions of Psychoanalysis reflects on the history of psychoanalysis, its conceptual foundations and its relation to other disciplines. John Forrester probes the origins of psychoanalysis and its most beguiling concept, the transference, which is at once its institutional axis and experimental core. He explores the most seductive of all recent psychoanalytic traditions, that inspired by Jacques Lacan, whose radical questioning of psychoanalytic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521424666
• ISBN13: 9780521424660
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Not an Introduction!

When I read "Forrester traces out the lineage from Freud to Lacan to Derrida with great sophistication and erudition..." in the book's description, I wrongly assumed this would be a comprehensive introduction. The essays refer to specific events or "cases studies" without providing background for those of us unaquainted with "the injection dream", for example. I am not in the position to say whether this book is good on its own terms,(that's why I am repeating the previous reviewer's rating) but wanted to help prevent others from buying the wrong book.

Warmly companionable, not coldly academic

This book is an excellent introduction for anyone desiring more than a cursory acquaintance with the ideas, practices and consequences of psychoanalysis. Dr Forrester guides us through the historical and philosophical context of his subject without allowing the material to become weighty or dry.