Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences
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Louis Althusser
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Translated by:
Steven Rendall
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Preface by:
Pascale Gillot
About this book
Author / Editor information
Steven Rendall is professor emeritus of Romance languages at the University of Oregon.
Pascale Gillot is professor of philosophy at the Lycée Henri Moissan and researcher at the Université Paris I.
Reviews
This intervention exemplifies Althusser's conception of the role of philosophy in the history of scientific revolutions and reveals the outlines of the larger project of intellectual renovation within which the rereading of Marx took place. Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences provides a vivid account of the combative intellectual world of Althusser and his contemporaries, with many delightful digressions and personal anecdotes.
Linda M. G. Zerilli, author of A Democratic Theory of Judgment:
Exploring the epistemic break affected by Lacan's departure from psychology and its reduction of Freud's teaching to a technique of social adaptation, Louis Althusser clarifies the difference between science and ideology. The result is a powerful defense of the scientificity of the human sciences that manages to liberate their objects from the normalizing function of technocratic ideology and social control.
Adrian Johnston, author of Badiou, iek, and Political Transformations: The Cadence of Change:
Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences is short, clear and readable. Its accessibility and lucidity will appeal to both novices and experts in Continental-style philosophy
William S. Lewis, Skidmore College:
Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences is a significant contribution to the literature. The question of whether psychoanalysis is a science and of its relationship to psychology is very much alive; Althusser's solution was and remains an original one.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Foreword
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Editor’s Preface
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1. The Place of Psychoanalysis in the Human Sciences
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2. Psychoanalysis and Psychology
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Notes
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Index
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