Mari Ruti
A World of Fragile Things: Psychoanalysis and the Art of Living
Psychoanalytic perspective on what Western philosophers from Socrates to Foucault have called the art of living. How are our lives meaningful? What is the relationship of loss to creativity? How can... (more)
The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within
The Singularity of Being presents a Lacanian vision of what makes each of us an inimitable and irreplaceable creature. It argues that, unlike the "subject" (who comes into existence as a result of... (more)
Between Levinas and Lacan: Self, Other, Ethics
Levinas and Lacan, two giants of contemporary theory, represent schools of thought that seem poles apart. In this major new work, Mari Ruti charts the ethical terrain between them.
At first... (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)
Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan: A Dialogue
Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan explores convergences and divergences in the psychoanalytic theories of Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan, with a special focus on the implications of their work... (more)