Passion in Theory

<p>Philosophy had either ignored or attacked psychoanalysis: such responses are neither warranted nor helpful. One hundred years after its inception isn't it time to find out what psychoanalysis has to offer us? In <em>Passion in Theory</em> Robyn Ferrell does just that and returns with some surprising answers.<br> Concentrating on the work of Freud and Lacan Robyn Ferrell asks why their work had been so influential in European philosophy yet so marginal in the Anglo-American circles. <em>Passion in Theory</em> explores their conception of the relationship between mind and body and how it provides a key to many current philosophical questions.<br><em>Passion in Theory</em> is designed for students and researchers in psychoanalysis traditional and continental philosophy.</p>