Psychoanalysis has had a profound influence on twentieth‎-century thought in a wide variety of areas‎,‎ from psychology and psychiatry to sociology‎,‎ literature‎,‎ feminism and politics‎.‎ Most importantly‎,‎ it offers insights into the relationship between individual subjectivity and social relations‎,‎ making it a key discipline for understanding the links between social phenomena and personal experience‎.‎ Since its first publication in 1987‎,‎ The Politics of Psychoanalysis has been widely recognised as one of the best introductions to psychoanalytic theory from the point of view of its relevance for social relations‎.‎ As well as describing Freud‎'‎s work‎,‎ it examines the basic assumptions and social implications of a broad spectrum of post‎-Freudian psychoanalytic thought‎,‎ especially object relations‎,‎ Kleinian and Lacanian theory‎.‎ Feminist and critical psychoanalytic approaches are explored‎,‎ along with questions of psychoanalytic practice andd its implications for social and personal change‎.‎ For this second edition‎,‎ the b‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎