Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
Society and psyche: Social theory and the unconsciousness dimension of the social
Providing interpretations and drawing critically upon classical and modern social theory - including post-structuralism and psychoanalysis - this study offers an alternative way of thinking about the... (more)
Self, person, world: The interplay of conscious and unconscious in human life
This is a survey of human life in its personal, social, and mythic dimensions, drawing on a variety of sources, most notably Freud, Weber, Husserl, and recent work in cognitive and developmental... (more)
Hide and Seek: The Child Between Psychoanalysis and Fiction
Examines representations of the child in fiction, psychoanalysis and popular culture. Drawing on popular images of the child from the 19th century to the present, it raises provocative questions... (more)
The Problem of the Passions: Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Social Theory
This book addresses what is often missing from discussions of women's psychology in feminist social theory: an account of women as ambivalent, both empathic and engaged, both loving and hating.
Myth and Madness: The Psychodynamics of Anti-Semitism
By examining prejudiced patients and their myths, Dr Ostow exposes the common threads of anti-semitism across a variety of national and cultural settings. The book is divided into five major... (more)
Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanlysis and Literature
Drawing on psychoanalytical approaches, this study contains discusions of the ways that the inner life is depicted in the Renaissance. It demonstrates how much of Renaissance literature represents... (more)
Reading Dubliners Again: A Lacanian Perspective
A psychoanalytic examination of James Joyces short stories. (more)
The Imaginary Institution of Society
A far-ranging discussion, dealing with the critique of marxism, the creative and imaginary character of language, the relations between action and social institutions, the nature of the unconscious,... (more)
Female Fetishism: A New Look
Tackles the question of female fetishism and documents women's engagement in this form of sexuality. Covering a wide range of fetishistic practices, it suggest that Freudian phallocentrism has... (more)
Self-Analysis in Literary Study: Exploring Hidden Agendas
Demonstrates how self-analysis can be a useful psychoanalytic approach to literary theory, and explores how the psyche affects intellectual discoveries in the realm of applied psychoanalysis.
Sartre and Psychoanalysis: An Existential Challenge to Clinical Metatheory
Explores the implications of Sartrean philosophy for the Freudian psychoanalytic tradition. The author shows that Sartre appreciated Freud's psychoanalytic achievements, but rebelled against the... (more)