Contents

	Abbreviations
	Introduction: on understanding psychoanalysis
part I Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis
1	Where it was: Freud's biology of the mind
2	Sexuality and its vicissitudes
3	To slip, perchance to dream: Freud on the unconscious
part II Freud's children
4	Precarious love: Kleinian object relations theory
5	Jacques Lacan: rereading Freud to the letter
6	What does woman want? Feminism and psychoanalysis
part III Psychoanalysis and its discontented
7	Freud as philosopher? Civilization, art and religion
8	Where psychoanalysis has come to be: philosophy, science, society and ethics
	Chronology of life and events
	Questions for discussion and revision
	Guide to further reading
	Bibliography
	Index