Psychoanalytic Politics, Second Edition, with a New Preface: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution

by Sherry Turkle

An updated edition of the seminal book that explores why the interest in psychoanalysis in France exploded after 1968 and what it says about culture and therapy.

Among Western countries, France may well be the one that resisted Freud the longest. But, in the late 1960s, France was seized by an infatuation with Freudianism. By the end of that decade, France had more than a psychoanalytic movement: it had a widespread and deeply rooted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262548178
• ISBN13: 9780262548175
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 494 Pages