Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
The Enigma of the Oceanic Feeling: Revisioning the Psychoanalytic Theory of Mysticism
This study examines the history of the psychoanalytic theory of mysticism, beginning with the correspondence between Freud and Romain Rolland on the concept of the "oceanic feeling". The author... (more)
Death and the mother: from Dickens to Freud
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Lost Subjects, Contested Objects: Toward a Psychoanalytic Inquiry of Learning
This book argues for the reconsideration by education of the implications of psychoanalytic ideas on love and hate for the design of programmes for learning and pedagogy. Britzman sets in tension... (more)
States of fantasy
This text argues for an expansion of the boundaries of "English" and the importance of psychoanalysis in understanding literary and historical lives. It also explores the place of Israel/Palestine... (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)
Quiet as it's kept: Shame, trauma and race in the novels of Toni Morrison
Drawing on and extending recent psychoanalytic and psychiatric work of shame and trauma theorists, this book offers an in-depth analysis of Toni Morrison's representation of painful and shameful race... (more)
The World of Adolescence: Literature, Society and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
This text addresses three literary works with adolescence in mind: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing and Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. These set the stage for the clinical material... (more)
Undressing cinema: Clothes, identities, films
Focussing on the narrative significance of clothes in film, this text proposes new links between cinema, fashion and costume history, gender, queer theory, and psychoanalysis. It examines the... (more)
Reproductions of reproduction
Covering a wide range of topics from popular culture, from 'Frankenstein' to 'Nintendo', and from baseball to bodybuilding. This study examines the relation between representation and technological... (more)
Culture, Psyche, and Teenage Pregnancy: A Case Study
Why does the pattern of unwed teenage pregnancy repeat in some families. 280 pages
Psychoanalytic Culture: Psychoanalytic discourse in Western society
Systematically reviews the key psychoanalytic theories and explores their relevance to modern life. Classical Freudian and object-relations theory is directed at the problem of group processes; ideas... (more)
Judaism and Psychoanalysis
Is psychoanalysis a "Jewish science"? Ten essays contributed by the editor and distinguished scholars explore the Jewishness of psychoanalysis, its origins in the Jewish situation of late nineteenth... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science: A multiple code theory
The book firstly reviews the historical role of theory in psychoanalysis, and explores the factors separating cognitive science from psychoanalysis today. Building on this, the author presents a... (more)
Presence in the flesh: The body in medicine
The tendency of medicine to separate self and body, and the body's means of resistance, is the focus of this book. Disembodiment is the founding gesture of medicine - the author argues - so how can... (more)
Ultimate Intimacy: The Psychodynamics of Jewish Mysticism
With contributions and comments from a range of distinguished Biblical scholars, this work fulfills Mortimer Ostow's promise to unite psychoanalysis and the study of the Kabbalah. Ranging over both... (more)
Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic andIinitiation in the life of an African Shaman
Maliodoma Patrice Some was born in a Dagara Village, however he was soon to be abducted to a Jesuit school, where he remained for the next fifteen years, being harshly indoctrinated into european... (more)
Law and the Unconscious: A Legendre Reader
Law and the Unconscious is the first work of the French legal philosopher Pierre Legendre to appear in English. Trained as a lawyer, a historian and a psychoanalyst, the work of Pierre Legendre has... (more)
Ethics and the Discovery of the Unconscious
Shows why the discovery of the unconscious by Nietzsche and Freud demands a reconceptualisation of 'moral agency' and 'responsibility' - and even of morality itself. Riker develops a new moral... (more)
Positioning subjects: Psychoanalysis and critical educational studies
Believing that educational progressivism has overestimated the power of rationality, and has repressed any understanding of unconscious mental processes, the author uses psychoanalysis to explore the... (more)
Performance anxieties: Staging psychoanalysis, staging race
Looks at the on-going debate concerning the value of psychoanalysis for feminist theory and politics - specifically concerning the social and psychical meanings of 'race'. The author indicates how... (more)
Other women: Lesbian / bisexual experience and psychoanalytic views of women
In reassessing traditional psychoanalysis, this text fromulates new theories for evaluating women's sexuality. The author argues that the dynamics of lesbian and bisexual relationships are "part" of... (more)
Listening Subjects: Music, Psychoanalysis, Culture
David Schwarz uses psychoanalytic techniques to probe the visceral experiences of music listeners. Using classical, popular, and avant-garde music as texts, Schwarz addresses intriguing questions:... (more)
Cultural pluralism and psychoanalysis: The Asian and American experience
This volume explores the creative dialogue in which psychoanalysts since Freud have engaged the modern Northern European / North American culture of individualism. The focus is on the the ways in... (more)
Oscar Wilde: A long and lovely suicide
A psychoanalytic biography of Oscar Wilde which explores the links between little-known childhood events and figures in his life and his psychological development to explain both Wilde's creativity... (more)
Shadow Lines: Austrian Literature from Freud to Kafka
Intellectual culture in early twentieth-century Austria reached levels of originality and excellence that have rarely been equalled before or since. Shadow Lines examines works by major novelists,... (more)
Women Beyond Freud: New Concepts of Feminine Psychology
A compilation of contemporary papers on female psychology. (more)
Art and psychoanalysis
A clearly written, informative, and stimulating contribution to the fields of art history and psychoanalysis. (more)