Psychoanalysis and cultural theory

James Donald (ed)

Palgrave Macmillan - Basingstoke

1991

The transactions between the social and the psychical, between history and the unconscious, remain one of the most tantalising enigmas in the human sciences. In the past, the competing explanations offered by psychoanalysis and by cultural studies have led to mutual incomprehension, uncritical partisanship or outright rejection.