Anthony Elliott is Director of the Hawke Research Institute and Research Professor of Sociology at the University of South Australia. A prominent social theorist, sociologist and public intellectual, he is the author and editor of 40 books, translated in over a dozen languages.

"Elliott's accessible prose and lively style combined with the huge breadth of his knowledge of the field make for a timely new edition of his widely read Psychoanalytic Theory: An Introduction. Elliott's focus is our complex subjectivity, understood both in terms of its personal location and those subjective phenomena which transcend the self. With coverage of new developments in psychoanalytic studies and additional profiles of figures such as Zizek and Butler, this book provides nourishing Bionic food for thought." - Paul Hoggett, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, University of the West of England, UK "This is an exceptionally lucid, learned and comprehensive examination of the richly diverse field of psychoanalysis in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Elliott makes the case for the continuing relevance of psychoanalysis to the humanities and social sciences by demonstrating the linkages between psyche, politics and culture in each major strand of psychoanalytic theory since Freud. A truly impressive achievement!" - Madelon M. Sprengnether, Regents Professor, Department of English, University of Minnesota, USA

• 1. The Making of the Self Divergences in Psychoanalytic Theory2. Modern Culture and Its Repressed From Freud to Lasch3. Object Relations, Kleinian Theory, Self-Psychology From Erikson to Kohut4. Post-structuralist Anxiety: Subjects of Desire From Lacan to Derrida5. Psychoanalytic Feminism From Chodorow to Butler6. The Dislocating World of Postmodernism Identity in Troubled TimesConclusion: Psychoanalysis as Critical Theory