French Psychoanalysis Revisited

This Volume of Annals of Theoretical Psychology highlights the fact that the flourishing aftermath of both Freud’s and Lacan’s ideas still exist. This is done in different ways. Some papers focus on rereading core texts of Freud and Lacan. Others apply Freud’s and Lacan’s principles in a new and contemporaneous actuality. Others again, transform and develop some of the core principles in psychoanalysis, whereas others discuss the scientific principles that lie behind psychoanalysis. This book will be important for scholars interested in psychoanalysis in general. The readers should be both clinicians and others interested in psychoanalysis all over the world.

1. Introduction, French Psychoanalysis Revisited.- 2. Jacques Lacan's Liminal Subject. Semiotic and Anti-Semiotic Thrusts of a Psychoanalytic Theory of the Subjectivity.- 3. Bela Lugosi's Haunted Mirror: Spontaneous Deployment of Lacanian Concepts in Rending Paranormal Experiences.- 4. The Möbius Strip as a Theory of Narrative? From Bessie Head’s Early Journalism to The Cardinals.- 5. The Uncanny Feminine.- 6. The Body Beyond Castration, a Legacy of Lacan.- 7. Pleasure of Thinking in French Psychoanalysis.- 8. The Constitutive Role of the Symbolic in Shaping the Subject – a Rereading of Lacan.- 9. Rene Lew and Psychoanalysis as an Impredicative Science.- 10. Dream Processes and Cognition.

Sven Hroar Klempe (Mag.art., Dr.art.) is Professor in Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. His background includes Professor in Musicology, Assoc. Prof. in Media Studies, teacher and journalist. His research is cross-disciplinary with an emphasis on the history of psychology, culture and psychology, theory of science, communication and music psychology. (E-mail:  hroar.klempe@ntnu.no ) ORCID ID:0000-0001-9207-8857

Professor Anna Madill specializes in qualitative methods, with particular interest in visual approaches. She is Chair in Qualitative Inquiry and former Interim Head of the School of Psychology, University of Leeds UK. Madill is Fellow of the British Psychological Society and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She Co-Founded and Chaired (2008-11) the British Psychological Society Qualitative Methods in Psychology Section. She can be contacted at a.l.madill@leeds.ac.uk. ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9406-507X