Myth Psychoanalysis

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Freud, Lacan and Lévi-Strauss

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Myth Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan and Lévi-Strauss examines the human psyche through the theoretical lenses of three groundbreaking thinkers, exploring how humans craft their symbolic reality.This innovative work treats the exemplary cases of Freud as myths, parallel to native myths in their structure and the knowledge they harbor. The book reviews what Freud, Lacan and Lévi-Strauss would say on various aspects of the human psyche, identifying commonalities and discrepancies while distilling truths that resonate through the intersection of their perspectives. Through twelve comprehensive chapters, the work explores creation myths, kinship relations, totemism, and the structural foundations of meaning-making in both clinical and cultural contexts. The author employs a storytelling style that brings to life fascinating narratives from native myths and psychoanalytic case studies, making complex theoretical concepts accessible through engaging examples and biographical insights.This book is fascinating reading for psychoanalysts, mental health professionals, and those familiar with Freud, Lacan, or Lévi-Strauss who seek to enrich their knowledge and clinical application.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-08-04
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor178
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781041302889

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Yehuda Israely, Ph.D. is a psychologist, psychoanalyst and writer, winner of the Israeli Gefen award for original Sci-Fi literature for 2011. He is a founding member at "Forum Lacan Tel-Aviv" and member of the school of the "The International of the Forums of the Lacanian Field." Israely has published extensively with Routledge, including Lacanian Treatment – Psychoanalysis for Clinicians (2018), Paradoxes in Lacanian Psychoanalysis (2022), which was nominated by Routledge for the Gradiva Award, and The Ethics of Lacanian Psychoanalysis (2023). His previous works also include The Philosophy and Psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan and the science fiction novel Mesopotamia.

"Yehuda Israely’s book highlights the links between Freud’s theory and Lacan’s renewal of psychoanalysis based on Lévi-Strauss’s theoretical elaborations. It reveals how Freud, throughout his conceptions, draws upon classical myths to illuminate his own invention: the unconscious. The book traces the influence structural anthropology had on Lacan’s theoretical conception, forging the notion of structure to account for the constitution of a subject, and how is this translated into what Lacan refers to as clinical structures? The author successfully demonstrates the place that Freud and Lacan gave to myths. a conception of psychoanalysis whose central tenet could be defined as: in relation with myths, we can do without them provided we make use of them." -Dr. Luis Izcovich, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst; founding member, EPFCL and author of The Marks of a Psychoanalysis (2017) and The Clinical Case in Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective (2026); Paris, France.