Psychoanalysis is making its way in contemporary times. Its advances are many, but also its resistances. However, the current panorama reveals a plural, heterogeneous, and diverse psychoanalysis. The multiplicity of schools, traditions, authors, and institutions coexist in a rich and vibrant discipline. Freud once proclaimed that the unconscious is, in fact, something living, susceptible to development, and therefore, so is the discipline that studies it. More than a hundred years after its founding, psychoanalysis has created new theories in an attempt to understand and expand our knowledge of unconscious mental life. With the help of patients and their demands, psychoanalytic thinkers are adding proposals that reflect the complexity of the unconscious and its influence on our lives. In this book, Ricardo Velasco Rosas offers a broad overview of three contemporary authors who fulfill...read more
