Alan Paul Bass

The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond

Margins of Philosophy

Writing and Difference

Positions

Positions

Geometry: Fundamental Concepts and Applications

Difference and Disavowal: The Trauma of Eros

Difference and Disavowal: The Trauma of Eros

Geometry: Fundamental Concepts and Applications

This Geometry workbook makes the fundamental concepts of geometry accessible and interesting for college students and incorporates a variety of basic algebra skills in order to show the connection between Geometry and Algebra. Topics include: A Brief History of Geometry 1. Basic Geometry Concept...

Math Study Skills

This mathematics study skills workbook outlines good study habits and provides students with suggested study strategies, time management, organizational, and test-taking tips. Contents include: 1. Introduction2. What Makes Math Different3. Learning Styles4. Math Anxiety5. Managing Your Time6. Your...

Interpretation and Difference: The Strangeness of Care (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

This book is the companion to Difference and Disavowal: The Trauma of Eros (Stanford University Press, 2000), which dealt with the psychoanalytic clinical problem of resistance to interpretation. The key to this resistance is the unconscious registration and repudiation (disavowal) of the reality of...

The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond

17 November 1979You were reading a somewhat retro loveletter, the last in history. But you have not yet received it. Yes, its lack or excess of address prepares it to fall into all hands: a post card, an open letter in which the secret appears, but indecipherably.What does a post card want to say to...

Margins of Philosophy

"In this densely imbricated volume Derrida pursues his devoted, relentless dismantling of the philosophical tradition, the tradition of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger—each dealt with in one or more of the essays. There are essays too on linguistics (Saussure, Benveniste, Austin) a...

Writing and Difference

First published in 1967, Writing and Difference, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics. The book's first half, which includes ...

Math Study Skills (2nd Edition)

Math Study Skills outlines good study habits and provides students with study strategies and tips to improve in areas such as time management, organization, and test-taking skills. With a friendly and relatable voice, Alan Bass addresses the misgivings and challenges many students face in a math ...

Difference and Disavowal: The Trauma of Eros

Difference and Disavowal is a major rethinking of a central tenet of Freudian psychoanalysis—the repression theory. It centers on fundamental issues in practice and theory, beginning with a central conundrum for clinical psychoanalysis: how to understand apparently analyzable patients who resist the...