Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
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)
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)
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)
Psychoanalysis and performance:
This volume maps out the relationship between psychoanalysis and performance (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)
The Historiography of Psychoanalysis
This work explores the vagaries of Freud's impact over the 20th century, including controversial issues relating Freud to histiography of psychoanalysis. Other topics covered include "Freud Studies",... (more)
Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis
This work provides an introductory cultural history of the relationship between psychoanalytic concepts and Shakespearean texts. This is played out in a variety of expected and unexpected contexts,... (more)
Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of maternal origin in Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet to The Tempest
An original reading of Shakespeare's plays illuminating his negotiations with mothers, present and absent, and tracing the genesis of Shakespearean tragedy and romance to a psychologized version of... (more)
Organisations, Anxiety and Defence: Towards a Psychoanalytic Social Psychology
Psychoanalysis has been applied to the understanding of social groups, organisations and cultures for a very long time, and there have been many different approaches. This book brings together the... (more)
Integration and Self-Healing: Affect, Trauma, Alexithymia
A work on psychic trauma and primitive affective (emotional) disturbance. The author uses the experience of his work with over 1000 Holocaust survivors in this effort to understand massive psychic... (more)
Pets and people: The psychology of pet ownership
In an examination of the relationship between pets and people, Barrie Gunter illustrates the many psychological benefits that animal companionship can bestow upon us: providing security for the... (more)
The social construction of what?:
Often lost in the debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what is being constructed. Ian Hacking looks at issues such as: madness; child abuse; and the ways in which... (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)