The Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalysis in the Social Sciences and Humanities
provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the historical, theoretical and
applied forms of psychoanalytical criticism. This path-breaking Handbook offers
students new ways of understanding the powers and limits of psychoanalysis, and
of the social, cultural and political possibilities of psychoanalytic critique.
The book offers students and professionals clear and concise chapters on the
development of psychoanalysis, introducing key theories that have influenced
debates over the psyche, desire and emotion in the social sciences and
humanities. There are substantive chapters on classical Freudian theory,
Kleinian and Bionian theory, object-relations psychoanalysis, Lacanian and
post-Lacanian approaches, feminist psychoanalysis, as well as