Preface and acknowledgements |
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Introduction: imagination in the service of the new |
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The argument of this book |
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14 | (2) |
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Pretext: you'll never dream the same dream twice |
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Social theory since Freud: traversing social imaginaries |
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Freud and the interpretation of the social |
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22 | (3) |
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25 | (3) |
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Psychopathologies of rationality: the Frankfurt School |
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28 | (8) |
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Returning to Freud: Jacques Lacan |
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36 | (5) |
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Lacanian and post-Lacanian contexts |
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41 | (1) |
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Feminist psychoanalytic criticism |
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42 | (5) |
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Psychoanalysis and postmodern theory |
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47 | (3) |
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Pretext: perplexing messages of the social |
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50 | (22) |
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Situating psychoanalysis in the social field: culture wars, Freud-bashing, memory |
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54 | (18) |
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Trauma talk and recovered memory: toward a critique of antipsychological psychology |
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59 | (7) |
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Opening and closing Freud: modern constructions, postmodern revisions |
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66 | (6) |
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Pretext: subjectivity, signification and writing: Kristeva and the Barthes system |
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72 | (35) |
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The psychic constitution of the subject: imagination, identification, primary repression |
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76 | (31) |
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Rethinking representation: fantasy, creation, imagination |
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78 | (5) |
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Freud and his followers: on the concepts of repression and identification |
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83 | (2) |
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Primary repression and the loss of the thing: Kristeva's exploration of the imaginary father |
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85 | (4) |
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Enigmatic messages: Laplanche |
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89 | (2) |
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Primary repression rethought: rolling identifications and representational wrappings of self and other |
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91 | (12) |
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The significance of primary repression, and the politicization of identification |
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103 | (4) |
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Pretext: on the adventures of difference |
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107 | (25) |
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Sexuality, complexity, anxiety: the encounter between psychoanalysis, feminism and postmodernism |
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115 | (17) |
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Feminism, post-structuralism and postmodernism |
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116 | (5) |
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Sexual difference, or more of the same? |
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121 | (3) |
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From ambivalence to inflexibility: the fear of difference |
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124 | (7) |
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131 | (1) |
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Pretext: ethics, psychoanalysis and postmodernity |
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132 | (38) |
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Psychoanalysis at its limits: navigating the postmodern turn (with Charles Spezzano) |
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137 | (21) |
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Modernism and postmodernism: the alleged dichotomy |
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138 | (2) |
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Three faces of postmodernism |
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140 | (4) |
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Postmodern psychoanalysis: two recent views |
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144 | (5) |
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The critique of `inescapable fragmentation' |
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149 | (1) |
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Criticisms of the postmodern collapse of signification |
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150 | (2) |
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Postmodernity and psychoanalytic heterogeneity |
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152 | (4) |
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Beyond hermeneutics and constructivism |
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156 | (2) |
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Social theory, psychoanalysis and the politics of postmodernity: Anthony Elliott talks with Sean Homer |
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158 | (12) |
Notes |
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170 | (2) |
References |
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172 | (7) |
Index |
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