Routledge Loving Psychoanalysis: Looking at Culture with Freud and Lacan

Product Description Psychoanalysis was neither a product of philosophy nor of academic study. Freud took his lead from hysterical women; the accounts of their pain, anxieties and physical symptoms led him to formulate his theories on the existence of the unconscious. Psychoanalysis is neither a theory nor a way of seeing life. It is a form of ethics unlike any othe About the Author Ruth Golan is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst and a poet. She lives, works and teaches in Tel-Aviv, and is a member of the GIEP (the Israeli Group of the New Lacanian School). She is also a founding member of the IEF.