In this astonishing, revelatory autobiography, Louis Althusser, one of the most influential French thinkers of the sixties and seventies, along with Sartre, Barthes, Foucault and Lacan, admits to his fears of exposure as an intellectual fraud; he analyses his fraught, unconventional relationship with his wife Helene and reveals a history of severe identity crisis and mental illness.

The Future Lasts a Long Time

ALTHUSSER, LOUIS

Biographies & Memoirs

Vintage

For Marx (Penguin University Books)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Penguin Books Australia Ltd.

With several never-before published writings, this volume gathers Althusser's major essays on psychoanalytic thought----documenting his intense and ambivalent relationship with Lacan, and dramatizing his intellectual journey and troubled personal life.

Writings on Psychoanalysis

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Columbia University Press

Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

What can psychoanalysis, a psychological approach developed more than a century ago, offer us in an age of rapidly evolving, hard-to-categorize ideas of sexuality and the self? Should we abandon Freud's theories completely or adapt them to new findings and the new relationships taking shape in modern liberal societies? In a remarkably prescient series of lectures delivered in the early 1960s, the French philosopher Louis Althusser anticipated the challenges that psychoanalytic theory would face as politics moved away from structuralist frameworks and toward the elastic possibilities of anthropological and sociological thought. Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences translates Althusser's remarkable seminars into English for the first time, making available to a wider audience the origins and potential future of radical political theory. Althusser takes the important step in these lectures of distinguishing psychoanalysis from psychology and especially psychiatry, which long resisted Freud's analytical concepts of the unconscious and overdetermination. By freeing psychoanalysis from this bind, Althusser can then apply these analytical concepts to the social and the political, integrated with Marxist theory. The result is an enlivened methodology for comprehending social organization and change that had a profound influence on the Frankfurt School and scholars who continue to work at the forefront of radical thought today: Judith Butler, Étienne Balibar, and Alain Badiou.

What can psychoanalysis, a psychological approach developed more than a century ago, offer us in an age of rapidly evolving, hard-to-categorize ideas of sexuality and the self? Should we abandon Freud's theories completely or adapt them to new findings and the new relationships taking shape in modern liberal societies? In a remarkably prescient series of lectures delivered in the early 1960s, the French philosopher Louis Althusser anticipated the challenges that psychoanalytic theory would face as politics moved away from structuralist frameworks and toward the elastic possibilities of anthropological and sociological thought. Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences translates Althusser's remarkable seminars into English for the first time, making available to a wider audience the origins and potential future of radical political theory. Althusser takes the important step in these lectures of distinguishing psychoanalysis from psychology and especially psychiatry, which long resisted Freud's analytical concepts of the unconscious and overdetermination. By freeing psychoanalysis from this bind, Althusser can then apply these analytical concepts to the social and the political, integrated with Marxist theory. The result is an enlivened methodology for comprehending social organization and change that had a profound influence on the Frankfurt School and scholars who continue to work at the forefront of radical thought today: Judith Butler, Étienne Balibar, and Alain Badiou.

Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences

Contains all Lous Althusser's work published to date (1976) in the 70's. Three texts translated by Grahame Locke.

Essays in self-criticism

Humanities Press

Hardback w/ jacket; unmarked; no bent or torn pp.; jacket excellent.

Historical

Chatto&Windus

This is the work in which Louis Althusser formulated some of his most influential ideas. For Marx, first published in France in 1968, has come to be regarded as the founding text of the school of “structuralist Marxism” which was presided over by the fascinating and enigmatic figure of Louis Althusser. Structuralism constituted an intellectual revolution in the 1960s and 1970s and radically transformed the way philosophy, political and social theory, history, science, and aesthetics were discussed and thought about. For Marx was a key contribution to that process and it fundamentally recast the way in which many people understood Marx and Marxism.This book contains the classic statements of Althusser’s analysis of the young Marx and the importance of Feuerbach during this formative period, of his thesis of the “epistomological break” between the early and the late Marx, and of his conception of dialectics, contradiction and “overdetermination.” Also included is a study of the materialist theater of Bertolazzi and Brecht and the critique of humanist readings of Marxism. Since his death in 1990, Althusser’s legacy has come under renewed examination and it is increasingly recognized that the influence of his ideas has been wider and deeper than previously thought: reading For Marx, in its audacity, originality and rigor, will explain why this impact was so significant.

For Marx;

Pantheon Books

Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx: Politics and History

Verso Books

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The Future Lasts a Long Time

For Marx (Penguin University Books)

Writings on Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences

Essays in self-criticism

The Future Lasts a Long Time

For Marx;

Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx: Politics and History