Liberating Oedipus?: Psychoanalysis as Critical TheoryIn Liberating Oedipus?: Psychoanalysis as Critical Theory, Dr. Filip Kovacevic demonstrates how psychoanalytic theory can join political theory in designing alternative political norms and values. Kovacevic proves that political practice without an emancipatory psychology to guide it is potentially dangerous. |
Contents
Freuds Theses | 1 |
The Liberation Thesis | 59 |
Lacans Theses | 107 |
PostLacanian Theses | 157 |
Contemporary Lacanian Theses The Liberation Thesis Revisited | 193 |
Conclusion | 225 |
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