The Concept of the Individual in Psychoanalysis

The Concept of the Individual in Psychoanalysis considers the different conceptions of the individual that are found in psychoanalysis according to the culture in which it operates, and its political structure.

Autorentext

Raul Moncayo was born in Chile and first trained as a psychoanalyst in Buenos Aires. He obtained his PhD in social-clinical psychology at the Wright Institute in Berkeley and trained as an analyst at the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, which he also helped found. He is the founder of the Chinese American Center for Freudian and Lacanian Analysis and Research.

Klappentext

The Concept of the Individual in Psychoanalysis considers the different conceptions of the individual that are found in psychoanalysis according to the culture in which it operates, and its political structure.

Inhalt

1. The Phenomenology of the Person 2. Social Structural Versus Liberal Theories of the Individual 3. The Repressed-Repressive Unconscious 4. The Structural Theory: The Arousal of the Super-Ego, from the Soil of the Id 5. Ego Psychology 6. The Jungian Theory of the Self 7. The Lacanian Subject 8. The Symbolic and the Imaginary 9. The Je and the Moi, the Ego, and the Subject 10. Freud's and Lacan's Early Ego 11. The Self in Winnicott and Kohut 12. Uses of the Concept of the Individual in Psychoanalysis 13. The Ego or Subject of the Real