Psychoanalytic Theory

This comprehensive introduction to psychoanalytic theory and its application in the social sciences and humanities is now available in a new and fully revised edition. Elliott provides lucid interpretations of key psychoanalytic theorists such as Freud, Klein, Winnicott, Kohut, Lacan, Laplanche, and Kristeva. He also examines the political and cultural dimensions of psychoanalytic studies, from feminism to postmodernism. Much of the text is completely new, covering issues ranging from psychoanalytic approaches to race and post-colonialism to the reframing of sexuality studies in the light of recent advances in feminist thinking. As a result, "Psychoanalytic Theory" is a major teaching and research text.

Anthony Elliott is Professor of Social and Political Theory at the University of the West of England, where he is Director of the Centre for Critical Theory.