Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
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 Urban Uncanny: A Collection of Interdisciplinary Studies
The Urban Uncanny explores through ten engaging essays the slippage or mismatch between our expectations of the city - as the organised and familiar environments in which citizens live, work, and go... (more)
Creative Listening and the Psychoanalytic Process: Sensibility, Engagement and Envisioning
Contemporary psychoanalytic thinking about the interdependence of subjectivity and intersubjectivity has reenvisioned the analytic process, and with it the very nature of creative and engaged... (more)
Structure and Spontaneity in Clinical Prose: A Writer's Guide for Psychoanalysts and Psychotherapists: 581
Structure and Spontaneity in Clinical Prose will teach you how to read gifted writers for inspiration and practical lessons in the craft of writing. It will help you apply the principles and... (more)
Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Cinema
This is a hugely important collection of essays on Deleuze and Cinema from an international panel of experts. In 1971, Deleuze and Guattari's collaborative work, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and... (more)
Relating to God: Clinical Psychoanalysis, Spirituality, and Theism
In Relating to God: Clinical Psychoanalysis, Spirituality, and Theism, Dan Merkur conceptualizes religious discourse within psychoanalysis. He proposes that God be treated as a transferential figure... (more)
Cixous, Derrida, Psychoanalysis
This book considers the different ways psychoanalysis is of immense importance to the work of Helene Cixous and Jacques Derrida. Bringing together original essays by leading contemporary thinkers in... (more)
Lost in Space: Amexane - Paths of Impossibility
'“The mares which bear me as far as my desires might reach ...”: a piece of writing from two and a half thousand years ago catches the intent of this work. The author has etched a body of poetry that... (more)
Shrink: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in America
"Psychology has stepped down from the university chair into the marketplace" was how the New York Times put it in 1926. Another commentator in 1929 was more biting. "Psychoanalysis", he said, "had,... (more)
The African American Experience: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Brings together the contributions of distinguished mental health professionals and scholars of humanities to offer a multifaceted perspective on the transgenerational trauma of slavery, the hardship... (more)
Melodies of the Mind: Connections Between Psychoanalysis and Music
What can psychoanalysis learn from music? What can music learn from psychoanalysis? Can the analysis of music itself provide a primary source of psychological data? Drawing on Freud's concept of the... (more)
The Zen Impulse and the Psychoanalytic Encounter
Although psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism derive from theoretical and philosophical assumptions worlds apart, both experientially-based traditions share at their heart a desire for the understanding,... (more)
Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging: Third Revised Edition
Margaret Cruikshank's Learning to Be Old examines what it means to grow old in America today. The book questions social myths and fears about aging, sickness, and the other social roles of the... (more)
Identity in Question
Whilst undoubtedly one of the most controversial but also most established issues in research and debate within the contemporary social and human sciences, as well as in cultural studies, work on... (more)
Dreaming in the World's Religions: A Comparative History
An authoritative and engaging one-volume resource for the study of dreaming and religion. It tells the story of how dreaming has shaped the religious history of humankind, from the Upanishads of... (more)
Healing with Death Imagery
Sages of various traditions and ages have reiterated that we must incorporate the inevitability of death into the fabric of life to experience life's breadth and beauty. Imagery is an important tool... (more)
Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema
Provides new insights into the relationship between masculinity and jealousy through the study of representations of male jealousy in contemporary Hollywood cinema. It argues that male jealousy has... (more)
Religion and Psychology: Mapping the Terrain
This work is a survey of the current state of the relationship between religion and psychology from the leading scholars in the field. The issues included are: the psychology-theology dialogue; the... (more)
Hannah Arendt
Twenty-five years after her death, we are still coming to terms with the controversial figure of Hannah Arendt. Interlacing the life and work of this 20th century philosopher, Julia Kristeva provides... (more)
Freud and Freudians on religion: A reader
This volume presents selections from Freud's writings on religion and from the work of five more recent contributors to the psychoanalytic study of religion: David Bakan, Erik H. Erikson, Heinz... (more)
Spirituality and the occult: From the Renaissance to the Modern Age
This volume argues against the view that occult spiritualities are marginal to Western culture. It shows that the influence of the esoteric tradition - including Freudian and Jungian psychology - has... (more)
Therapeutic Dimensions of Autobiography in Creative Writing
Therapeutic Dimensions of Autobiography in Creative Writing brings together theory and practice from psychoanalysis, literary and cultural studies and the growing field of creative writing studics.... (more)
Psychotherapy and Spirituality: Crossing the line between therapy and religion
This thoughtful and intelligent book encourages psychotherapists and counsellors to consider seriously the relationship between spiritual experiences and therapeutic practice. 152 pages. (more)
Freudian Analysts / Feminist Issues
In this book Judith M. Hughes makes a highly original case for conceptualizing gender identity as potentially multiple. She does so by situating her argument within the history of psychoanalysis.... (more)
Psycho-politics and Cultural Desires
A cultural studies textbook that deals with issues of methodology, as well as mapping out the history and theories of the subject. The book focuses on the past, present and future of cultural... (more)
Affective Genealogies: Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism and the Jewish Question After Auschwitz
Affective Genealogies is an incisive contribution to the current reassessment of postmodern culture and theory. Elizabeth J. Bellamy examines how the Holocaust and Jews have been represented in a... (more)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Patient: Psychodynamic Studies of the Creative Personality
An attempt to explore the dynamics of an unfulfilled, unrecognized and perplexed young artist. The artist lives in two worlds: one is factual, linear and reality-driven; the other is creatively... (more)
Art and Psyche: A Study in Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics
A study in psychoanalysis and aesthetics. 188 pages. (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.