The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is often equated with Sigmund Freud, but this comparison ignores the wide range of clinical practices, observational methods, general theories, and cross-pollinations with other disciplines that characterise contemporary psychoanalytic work. Central psychoanalytic concepts to do with unconscious motivation, primitive forms of thought, defence mechanisms, and transference form a mainstay of today's richly textured contemporary clinical psychological practice. In this landmark collection on philosophy and psychoanalysis, leading researchers provide an evaluative overview of current thinking. Written at the interface between these two disciplines, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis contains original contributions that will shape the future of debate. With 34 chapters divided into eight sections covering history, clinical theory, phenomenology, science, aesthetics, religion, ethics, and political and social theory, this Oxford Handbook displays the enduring depth, breadth, and promise of integrating philosophical and psychoanalytic thought. Anyone interested in the philosophical implications of psychoanalysis, as well as philosophical challenges to and re-statements of psychoanalysis, will want to consult this book. It will be a vital resource for academic researchers, psychoanalysts and other mental health professionals, graduates, and trainees.

1 - Introduction: Know Thyself
2 - Intellectual Pre-History: Introduction
3 - Psychoanalytic Theory: A Historical Reconstruction
4 - From Recognition to Intersubjectivity: Hegel and Psychoanalysis
5 - Schopenhauer and Freud
6 - From Geschlechtstrieb to Sexualtrieb: The Originality of Freud's Conception of Sexuality
7 - A Better Self: Freud and Nietzsche on the Nature and Value of Sublimation
8 - Twentieth Century Engagements: Introduction
9 - Merleau-Ponty and Psychoanalysis
10 - Wittgenstein and Psychoanalysis
11 - "In Psychoanalysis Nothing is True but the Exaggerations": Freud and the Frankfurt School
12 - Ricoeur's Freud
13 - Clinical Theory: Introduction
14 - Imagination and Reason, Method and Mourning in Freudian Psychoanalysis
15 - "A Ritual of Discourse": Conceptualizing and Re-conceptualizing the Analytic Relationship
16 - 1. Symbolism, the primary process, and dreams: Freud's contribution
17 - Wishfulfilment
18 - Integrating Unconscious Belief
19 - Making the Unconscious Conscious
20 - Phenomenology and Science: Introduction
21 - Complexities in the Evaluation of the Scientific Status of Psychoanalysis
22 - Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience
23 - How Should We Understand the Psychoanalytic Unconscious?
24 - A New Kind of Song: Psychoanalysis as Revelation
25 - Body Memory and the Unconscious
26 - Aesthetics: Introduction
27 - On Richard Wollheim's psychoanalytically informed philosophy of art
28 - Literary Form and Mentalization
29 - Psychoanalysis and Film
30 - Religion: Introduction
31 - Psychoanalysis and Religion
32 - Psychoanalytic Thinking on Religious Truth and Conviction
33 - The No-Thing of God: Psychoanalysis of Religion After Lacan
34 - Ethics: Introduction
35 - Hiding from Love: The Repressed Insight in Freud's Account of Morality
36 - Human Excellence and Psychic Health in Psychoanalysis
37 - Evolution, Childhood and the Moral Self
38 - Politics and Society: Introduction
39 - Psychoanalysis, Politics and Society: What Remains Radical in Psychoanalysis?
40 - Epistemic Anxiety
41 - Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century: Does Gender Matter?
42 - 1. Political Philosophy in Freud: War, Destruction, and the Critical Faculty

Dr Richard Gipps is a clinical psychologist in private psychotherapy practice in Oxford, UK, and an associate of the Philosophy Faculty at the University of Oxford. He convenes the Philosophy Special Interest Group of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, the Oxford Interdisciplinary Seminars in Psychoanalysis, and the Making the Unconscious Conscious seminar series. His research interests lie in psychoanalysis, psychosis, existential phenomenology, and Wittgenstein. Dr Michael Lacewing is a former Vice-Principal Academic and Reader in Philosophy at Heythrop College, London, an Honorary Reader in Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology at University College, London, and a teacher of philosophy and theology at Christ's Hospital School, Sussex. He has published widely in philosophy of psychoanalysis, metaethics and moral psychology, alongside writing textbooks for A level philosophy and training in Philosophy for Children (P4C).