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Symbol Formation in Psychoanalysis
Marisa Pelella Mélega draws on a broad spectrum of clinical and observational work, gathered over many years as a practising and teaching psychoanalyst based in São Paulo, Brazil.
The role of... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the New Rhetoric: Freud, Burke, Lacan, and Philosophy's Other Scenes
Psychoanalysis and the New Rhetoric: Freud, Burke, Lacan, and Philosophy's Other Scenes is an innovative work that places the fields of psychoanalysis and rhetoric in dynamic resonance with one... (more)
Shandean Psychoanalysis: Tristram Shandy, Madness and Trauma
This unique book examines the psychoanalysis of madness and trauma through an extended discussion of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the provocative eighteenth-century novel by... (more)
Psychoanalysis at the Crossroads: An International Perspective
In this clear and thoughtful book, an international group of distinguished authors explore the central issues and future directions facing psychoanalytic theory and practice.
The book explores... (more)
The Poetry of the Word in Psychoanalysis: Selected Papers of Pere Folch Mateu
The Poetry of the Word in Psychoanalysis presents selected key papers by leading Spanish psychoanalyst Pere Folch Mateu.
The pieces chosen for this book address clinical, psychopathological,... (more)
Here I'm Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis
Here I'm Alive explores the musical foundation of being human from a psychoanalytic perspective.
Writing in collaboration, three psychoanalytic clinicians develop a fresh vision of the... (more)
Speculating on the Edge of Psychoanalysis: Rings and Voids
In Speculating on the Edge of Psychoanalysis, Pablo Lerner questions, and takes a step beyond, the prevailing paradigm of Lacanian psychoanalysis and its emphasis on the sovereignty of language and... (more)
Textbook of Applied Psychoanalysis
The Textbook of Applied Psychoanalysis is a unique and original contribution to the field of psychoanalysis. Emphasizing and underscoring the need for interdisciplinary discourse in understanding the... (more)
Theories and Practices of Psychoanalysis in Central Europe: Narrative Assemblages of Self Analysis, Life Writing, and Fiction
Theories and Practices of Psychoanalysis in Central Europe explores the close relationship between psychoanalysis, psycho-medical discourses, literature, and the visual arts of the late 1800s and... (more)
Studying Lacan's Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis
Studying Lacan’s Seminar VII offers a contemporary, critically informed set of analyses of Lacan’s ethics seminar and astute reflections about what Lacan’s ethics offers to the field of... (more)
The Marion Milner Method: Psychoanalysis, Autobiography, Creativity
This book traces the development of British psychoanalyst Marion Milner’s (1900–98) autobiographical acts throughout her lifetime, proposing that Milner is a thinker to whom we can turn to explore... (more)
On the History and Transmission of Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Speaking of Lacan
On the History and Transmission of Lacanian Psychoanalysis addresses key questions about the history and transmission of Lacan’s work in North America through discussions with experienced... (more)
Antisemitism and Racism: Ethical Challenges for Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis has not had a comfortable history in relation to "race" and racism, despite its origins in the Jewish lives of Freud and its other first-generation progenitors and the insistent... (more)
Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis: Surviving the Environmental Apocalypse in Cinema
This book applies ecolinguistics and psychoanalysis to explore how films fictionalising environmental disasters provide spectacular warnings against the dangers of environmental apocalypse, while... (more)
Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish Thought: Answering a Question with More Questions
Demonstrating the connections between contemporary psychoanalysis, Jewish thought and Jewish history, this volume is a significant contribution to the traditions of dialogue, debate and... (more)
A Beam of Intense Darkness: Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis
Written by pioneering analyst and creative thinker, James Grotstein, A Beam of Intense Darkness offers a thorough overview and illuminating insight into the often complex work of W. R.... (more)
The Astonishing Adolescent Upheaval in Psychoanalysis
This book brings together international contributors to share insight from their theoretical and clinical work with adolescents, considering the different psychopathological responses they see in... (more)
Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Masculinity: From Toxic to Seminal
Drawing on a broad range of psychoanalytic, cultural and social influences, the author examines the concept of toxic masculinity for how it brings into focus a widespread anxiety about toxicity... (more)
Psychoanalysis with Wilfred R. Bion: Contemporary Approaches, Actuality and The Future of Psychoanalytic Practice
Psychoanalysis with Wilfred R. Bion is the product of Francois Levy's efforts over a period of twenty years to represent clearly the classical elements and the innovatory propositions of the thought... (more)
The Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalysis in the Social Sciences and Humanities
The Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalysis in the Social Sciences and Humanities provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the historical, theoretical and applied forms of psychoanalytical... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences
What can psychoanalysis, a psychological approach developed more than a century ago, offer us in an age of rapidly evolving, hard-to-categorize ideas of sexuality and the self? Should we abandon... (more)
Joyce and Lacan: Reading, Writing and Psychoanalysis
What happens when the intellectual giant of twentieth-century literature, James Joyce, is made an object of consideration and cause of desire by the intellectual giant of modern psychoanalysis,... (more)
Wisdom Won from Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
Wisdom Won from Illness brings into conversation two fields of humane inquiry - psychoanalysis and moral philosophy - that seem to have little to say to one another but which, taken together, form a... (more)
Climate Crisis, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics
Psychoanalysis engages with the difficult subjects in life, but it has been slow to address climate change. Climate Crisis, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics draws on the latest scientific evidence... (more)
Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives from Analyst-Artists
In recent years, there has been considerable interest in the relationship between artistic and psychoanalytic practices. Both professions are viewed as highly creative, with spontaneity,... (more)
Emotional Presence in Psychoanalysis: Theory and Clinical Applications
Emotional Presence in Psychoanalysis provides a detailed look at the intricacies of attaining emotional presence in psychoanalytic work. John Madonna and a distinguished group of contributors draw on... (more)
From Illiteracy to Literature: Psychoanalysis and Reading
From Illiteracy to Literature presents innovative material based on research with 'non-reading' children and re-examines the complex relationship between psychoanalysis and literature, through the... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Unrepresentable: From Culture to the Clinic
Psychoanalysis and the Unrepresentable opens a space for meaningful debate about translating psychoanalytic concepts from the work of clinicians to that of academics and back again. Focusing on the... (more)
The Mother in Psychoanalysis and Beyond
The question of what it means to be a mother is a very contentious topic in psychoanalysis and in wider society. The Mother in Psychoanalysis and Beyond explores our relationship to the maternal... (more)