Psychoanalytic Politics,Second Edition

"Sherry Turkle's PSYCHOANALYTIC POLITICS was the first important and substantial book about Lacan and his influence on psychoanalytic culture. Now, re-issued with brilliant and probing supplementary chapters on recent developments in France, it claims a place as one of the truly seminal and original texts of psychoanalytic scholarship." --Stuart Schneiderman, Ph.D. "Sherry Turkle's PSYCHOANALYTIC POLITICS remains the best single introduction to the complicated school of thought known as the French Freud. In this newly revised edition she has added a Preface which interestingly compares the status of psychoanalysis today in the Soviet Union with that in France, and she has also included a new Afterward which describes the bitter quarrels and byzantine politics that have marked Lacanianism since the founder's death in 1981. Turkle is a reliable and informed observer, and we are in her debt for her balanced research." --Paul Roazen, York University, Toronto "Sherry Turkle's account of the turbulence stirred up within French psychoanalysis by the controversial figure of Jacques Lacan made PSYCHOANALYTIC POLITICS enthralling reading. Now she has added the subsequent story of the struggle by Lacan's relatives to seize psychoanalysis as a family enclave. It is a chilling cautionary tale, related with concern and common sense....An absolutely indispensable contribution to the history of psychoanalysis." --Phyllis Grosskurth, University of TorontoTurkle, Sherry is the author of 'Psychoanalytic Politics,Second Edition', published 1992 under ISBN 9780898624748 and ISBN 0898624746.