Psychoanalysis at its Limits offers an account of the complex and contradictory nature of psychoanalysis in the postmodern age. It presents a history and critique of the concept of postmodernism throughout contemporary psychoanalytic thought. It is a critical survey of relations between desire, selfhood and culture.

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Rethinking Psychoanalysis in the Postmodern Era 1. Psychoanalysis at its Limits: Navigating the Postmodern Turn 2. Final Analysis: Can Psychoanalysis Survive in the Postmodern West? 3. Postmodernism and the Adoption of Identity 4. The Shadow of the Other Subject: Intersubjectivity and Feminist Theory 5. The Ambivalence of Identity: Psychoanalytic Theory in the Space Between Modernity and Postmodernity 6. Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Postmodernism 7. From Ghosts to Ancestors: The Psychoanalytic Vision of Hans Loewald 8. The Dialectically Constituted/Decentred Subject of Psychoanalysis 9. Why the Self Is, and Is Not, Empty: Trauma and Transcendence in the Postmodern Psyche 10. The Struggle to Imagine Index