Peter L. Rudnytsky
A Brief Apocalyptic History of Psychoanalysis: Erasing Trauma
A Brief Apocalyptic History of Psychoanalysis returns us to the birth of psychoanalysis and the trauma of castration that is its umbilicus.
The story told in this book centers on the genital... (more)
Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna: Science, Eros, and the Psychoanalytic Imagination
Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna shows how photography and film in turn-of-the-century Vienna (the birthplace of psychoanalysis) not only reflected modernist ideas already in force, but helped to... (more)
Freud and Forbidden Knowledge
A collection of essays that all use psychoanalysis to uncover the theme of forbidden knowledge in canonical works of the western tradition, from the Bible to Hamlet.
Ferenczi's Turn in Psychoanalyis (Hardback)
Fifteen eminent scholars and clinicians (including Andre Haynal, John Gedo, Axel Hoffer and Martin Bergmann) provide a comprehensive and rigorous examination of Ferenczi's legacy. The book is divided... (more)
Freud and Oedipus
Freud and Oedipus reassesses Freud's central concept of the Oedipus complex from the interlocking perceptives of biography, intellectual history, and Greek tragedy. Drawing on a wealth of primary and... (more)
Transitional Objects and Potential Spaces: Literary Uses of D.W.Winnicott
Explores the impact of Winnicott's theories on psychoanalytic literary criticism, focussing on his unique view of object-relations.
Ferenczi's Turn in Psychoanalyis
Hungarian-born analyst Sandor Ferenczi was long one of the most influential and overlooked of Sigmund Freud's disciples. This book provides a comprehensive and rigorous examination by 15 eminent... (more)
Psychoanalyses/Feminisms
Probes the complementary yet contested relations between psychoanalysis and feminism, emphasizing the plural nature of each.
Bringing together twelve provocative and iconoclastic contributions by... (more)
Psychoanalytic Conversations: Interviews with Clinicians, Commentators, and Critics
In this study, Peter Rudnytsky presents ten substantive and provocative interviews with leading analysts (Enid Balint, Charles Rycroft, Stephen A. Mitchell, Roy Schafer, Jessica Benjamin), with... (more)
The Psychoanalytic Vocation: Rank, Winnicott, and the Legacy of Freud
Object relations, which emphasizes the importance of the pre-oedipal period and the infant-mother relationship, is considered by many analysts to be the major development in psychoanalytic theory... (more)
Rescuing Psychoanalysis from Freud and Other Essays in Re-Vision
In his latest groundbreaking book, Peter L. Rudnytsky examines the history of psychoanalysis from a resolutely independent perspective. At once spellbinding case histories and meticulously crafted... (more)
Her Hour Come Round at Last: A Garland for Nina Coltart
This title is a celebration of the life of Nina Coltart, who had a career in medicine and psychoanalysis and was author of bestselling titles in psychotherapy The Baby and the Bathwater and How to... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine
In this pioneering volume, Peter L. Rudnytsky and Rita Charon bring together distinguished contributors from medicine, psychoanalysis, and literature to explore the multiple intersections between... (more)
The Discovery of the Self: A Study in Psychological Cure
Elizabeth Severn, known as R.N. in Sandor Ferenczi's Clinical Diary, was Ferenczi's analysand for eight years, the patient with whom he conducted his controversial experiment in mutual analysis, and... (more)
Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck
In a stunning fusion of literary criticism and intellectual history, Peter L. Rudnytsky explores the dialectical interplay between literature and psychoanalysis by reading key psychoanalytic texts in... (more)
Formulated Experiences: Hidden Realities and Emergent Meanings from Shakespeare to Fromm
In Formulated Experiences, Peter L. Rudnytsky continues his quest for a re-vision of psychoanalysis by coupling his revival of the unjustly neglected figure of Erich Fromm with his latest... (more)
Mutual Analysis: Ferenczi, Severn, and the Origins of Trauma Theory
Sandor Ferenczi's mutual analysis with Elizabeth Severn-the patient known as R.N. in the Clinical Diary-is one of the most controversial and consequential episodes in the history of psychoanalysis.... (more)