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Noted French psychoanalyst Francois Roustang examines both historical psychoanalytic relationships and associations in France today to show the destructive power of discipleship and how it related to the new theory of psychosis. This book is a paperback reprint of the classic text originally published in 1982.

Psychoanalytic studies of literature have tended either to apply to literary works psychoanalytic theories formulated in other contexts (as in so-called 'Freudian readings') or, more recently, to see textuality as itself a psychoanalytic issue. In contrast, the author bases his model for reading on a more open version of the therapeutic exchange, and thus he derives his categories for analyzing Casanova in the course of his engagement with the...

Francois Roustang attacks the claims that psychoanalysis makes to scientific method and the production of objective theory.

To read Roustang is to meet psychoanalysis at its most familiar and most strange: an elusive therapeutic enterprise whose most basic tenets are open to question. In How to Make a Paranoid Laugh or, What Is Psychoanalysis? Roustang plays the provocateur as he ranges overtopics such as the suggestively titled "The Laboratory of Cruelty" and "On the End of Analysis and Self-Hypnosis as a Cure." His style is of close questions and poetic leaps, th...

The story of the early Jesuit missionaries who arrived in North America between 1632 and 1637 is a remarkable by all accounts. For twenty long years, they toiled alone and unaided in the vast, wild regions of eastern Canada, bearing the hardships of a harsh climate, scarcity of food and inadequate lodging, as well as the constant menance of those inhabitants they had come to evangelize. Nevertheless, they worked and prayed unceasingly and bore...