Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
Antigone's Claim
This work argues that Antigone, the renowned insurgent from Sophocles's "Oedipus" and feminist icon, represents a form of sexual and feminist legacy that is fraught with risk. Judith Butler suggests... (more)
Metaphors We Live By
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson suggest that basic metaphors used in everyday speech not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the... (more)
Ethics, Politics and Difference in Julia Kristeva's Writing:
An intervention in Kristevan scholarship and a significant and exciting contribution in its own right to post-structuralist discussions of ethical and political agency and practice. (more)
Art and Social Theory
Art and Social Theory provides a comprehensive introduction to sociological studies of the arts. It examines the central debates of social theorists and sociologists about the place of the arts in... (more)
Why Feminism?: Gender, Psychology, Politics
This work explores the place of feminism in contemporary culture. For some, feminism is the favourite scapegoat for multiple social ills; for others, the greatest success story of the closing century. (more)
Psychoanalysis, Identity, and Ideology: Critical Essays on the Israel/Palestine Case
This collection embodies the tradition of critical thinking applied to ideologies and identities, Zionism in particular, through a non-exclusive prism of psychoanalytic traditions. (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)
Off the Couch
A humorous look at the world of therapy in a series of amusing cartoon drawings. The perfect present for all those interested in psychotherapy, counselling and psychoanalysis. (more)
The Couch and the Silver Screen: Psychoanalytic Reflections on European Cinema
A collection of original contributions which explore European cinema from psychoanalytic perspectives. Both classic and contemporary films are presented and analysed by a variety of authors,... (more)
Resistance to Multiculturalism: Issues and Interventions
Multiculturalism has moved to the forefront of research and coursework in psychology and the helping professions. This text examines the subtle forms of racism and resistance to the multicultural... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Art: Kleinian Perspectives
This essential edition brings together a collection of classic papers from key figures in Kleinian and post-Kleinian thought that explore the relationship between psychoanalysis and art.
Sandra... (more)
Key Papers in Literature and Psychoanalysis
Since Freud invoked the Oedipus story to exemplify and verify his findings with patients and in analyzing his own dreams, psychoanalysis and literature have had a fruitful if often distrusting... (more)
Happiness, Death and the Remainder of Life
Separated by millennia, Aristotle and Sigmund Freud both offered disparate pictures of the human condition. This book analyzes these thinkers' theories of human behaviour in terms of a higher... (more)
Nazi Psychoanalysis, Volume 1: Only Psychoanalysis Won the War
A sweeping, magisterial work by one of the most incisive and interesting scholars of modern philosophy, theory, and culture,
Does God Help?: Developmental and Clinical Aspects of Religious Belief
Can psychoanalysis lead us toward understanding the roots and nature of religious belief? In this text, five classical psychoanalysts representing five different religious faiths share their... (more)
Terror and Transformation: The Ambiguity of Religion in Psychoanalytic Perspectives
This is the first book to address the nature of religion and its capacity to sponsor both terrorism and transformation in terms of contemporary relational psychoanalytic theory. (more)
Feminist engagements: Reading, resisting, and revisioning male theorists in education and cultural studies
In this work, some of the top names in feminist education read, resist and revise the works of the major 20th-century theorists in education and cultural studies. These essays provide a feminist... (more)
Inventing our Selves: Psychology, Power and Personhood
Inventing Our Selves proposes a radical new approach to the analysis of our current regime of the self, and the values of autonomy, identity, individuality, liberty, and choice that animate it. It... (more)
Opera's Second Death
This work explores the relationship between opera and psychoanalysis. Ziezek and Dolar consider, for example, death in opera and orgasm (the little death for which opera may be imagined to be a... (more)
Joy and the Objects of Psychoanalysis: Literature, Belief, and Neurosis
A remarkable rendering of psychoanalysis in contemporary thought and literature, offering a compelling theory of human development. (more)
Conversations in Self Psychology: Progress in Self Psychology: Vol. 13
Provides valuable examples of the very type of clinically grounded theorizing that represents progress in self psychology. The opening section of clinical papers encompasses compensatory structures,... (more)
The lived body: Sociological themes, embodied issues
This text critically examines the notion of human embodiment in both classical and contemporary thought. An "embodied" sociology is proposed, one which makes embodiment central rather than... (more)
Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis
This collection of essays reconsiders the troubled relationship between same- sex desire and psychoanalysis, assessing homosexuality's status in psychoanalytic theory and practice, as well as the... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Film
In full acknowledgment of the important cultural significance of film, this outstanding collection of psychoanalytic essays brings a methodological and theoretical sophistication to an absorbing... (more)
Immigration and Identity: Turmoil, Treatment and Transformation
Why do people migrate from one country to another? What is the difference between an immigrant and an exile? What determines the psychological outcome of immigration? Can one ever mourn the loss of... (more)
Taboo: Sex, identity and erotic subjectivity in anthropological fieldwork
This text details the ethnographer and sexuality in anthropological fieldwork and considers the roles that sexuality plays in the production of knowledge and texts. Explored from differing... (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)
Madness and civilization
The influence of Michel Foucault, one of the great post-war philosophers, permeates contemporary philosophical thought. In this text, his first major work, he sets forth themes he picks up on in... (more)