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1 online resource (ix, 194 pages) : A prominent member of the French structuralist movement, Louis Althusser was influential for reinvigorating Marxist thought in France in the 196Os with celebrated works such as For Marx and Reading Capital. Yet many readers are not as familiar with the profound impact of psychoanalysis on Althusser's life and work. Writings on Psychoanalysis gathers, for the first time, Althusser's major essays on psychoanalytic thought. The volume begins with Freud and Lacan, which lays the groundwork for comprehending Althusser's entry into psychoanalysis. Letters to D. was the result of Althusser's fervent reading of Rene Diatkine's paper "Aggressiveness and Fantasies of Aggression," years before Diatkine was his psychoanalyst. Invited by Leon Chertok to participate in the "International Symposium on the Unconscious," at the Tbilisi colloquium, the chapter The Tbilisi Affair presents Althusser's essay "The Discovery of Dr. Freud." The chapter In the Name of the Analysands ... reprints Althusser's "Open Letter to Analysands and Analysts in Solidarity with Jacques Lacan," written the day after the famous meeting on the dissolution of the Ecole Freudienne de Pari
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- Author
- Althusser, Louis; Corpet, Olivier; Matheron, François
- Publisher
- New York: Columbia University Press
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780231101684
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Psychology, Medical, Social_sciences
Other editions & translations
- Writings on Psychoanalysis : Freud and Lacan (1999)
- Writings on Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) (2009)
- Writings on Psychoanalysis (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) (2010)
- Writings on Psychoanalysis : Freud and Lacan (1996)
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