Dimensions of Psychoanalysis contains a selection of the Freud Memorial Lectures delivered by eminent British, French and American analysts at University College in the University of London. Together the papers form a powerful presentation of contemporary psychoanalytic thought, both Freudian and post-Freudian, in its relation to the profession itself and to the wider disciplines of sociology, the natural sciences and literature.
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Dimensions of Psychoanalysis contains a selection of the Freud Memorial Lectures delivered by eminent British, French and American analysts at University College in the University of London. Together the papers form a powerful presentation of contemporary psychoanalytic thought, both Freudian and post-Freudian, in its relation to the profession itself and to the wider disciplines of sociology, the natural sciences and literature.
The Freud Memorial Professorship at University College London --
Introduction -- The psychoanalytic life history -- The legacy of Sigmund
Freud -- Psychoanalysis and freedom of thought -- Unconscious wishes and
human relationships -- Psychoanalysis and ordinary modes of thought --
Psychoanalysis as a natural science -- The Freudian left and the theory of
cultural revolution -- Psychoanalysis and the natural sciences: the
brainbehaviour connection from Freud to the present -- The role of illusion
in the psychoanalytic cure -- Perversion and the universal law -- Memory as
preparation: developmental and psychoanalytic perspectives -- The idor the
child within?
Joseph Sandler qualified as a psychoanalyst in the British Psychoanalytical Society. He was the Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis in the University of London and Director of the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College London, and in private practice in London. He was formerly the first Sigmund Freud Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Editor of the 'International Journal of Psychoanalysis' and the 'International Review of Psychoanalysis', and was President of the International Psychoanalytical Association.