Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
Guattari reader
This volume provides a survey of Felix Guattari's more political side, and documents his interventions in particular political conflicts in contemporary Europe. It will appeal to all those working in... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Humanities
Written by artists and scholars with a psychoanalytic training, this seminal collection of essays on painting, sculpture, literature, history, anthropology and philosophy illustrates how... (more)
Lure of Dreams: Sigmund Freud and the construction of modernity
This book aims to demonstrate how Freud's writings - in particular, 'The Interpretation of Dreams' - contribute to the character of modernity, in terms of both content and their surrealistic form.
The Body and the City: Psychoanalysis, Space and Subjectivity
This book maps the key coordinates of meaning, identity, and power across the sites of the body and city. Exploring a wide range of critical thinking, particularly the work of Lebevre, Freud and... (more)
Subject and Agency in Psychoanalysis: Which is to be Master?
Psychoanalysis works with words - words spoken by a subject who asks that the analyst listens. This is the belief that underlies Moran's exploration of a central problem in psychoanalytic theory -... (more)
Ignatius of Loyola: The Psychology of a Saint
Written by a psychoanalyst who is also a Jesuit, the book looks behind the events of Ignatius' life and religious experiences.
Subjection and Subjectivity: Psychoanalytic feminism and moral philosophy
Offers an account of moral subjectivity and moral reflection to meet the needs of feminism and other emancipatory movements; and argues that impartial reason - which has dominated 20th-century... (more)
Reading Freud's Reading
Perhaps nothing is more revealing about a person than what he or she reads. In 1938, when Freud was forced by the Nazis to flee Vienna, he brought with him to London a large portion of his annotated... (more)
All the Mothers are One: Hindu India and the Cultural Reshaping of Psychoanalysis
An attempt to uncover childhood developmental patterns predicated on norms and practices profoundly different from those on which classical psychoanalytic theory is based.
Psychoanalytic Theory of Art
This book places the contribution of psychoanalysis to the understanding of art within a philosophical framework and seeks to show by argument and example the potential and unrealized power of... (more)
Tales of Love
Julia Kristeva pursues her exploration of the core emotions of the human psyche through a series of philosophical and literary texts. She focuses on the role of narcissism and idealization in the... (more)
Language: The Unknown: An Initiation into Linguistics
In this wide-ranging introduction, Julia Kristeva presents the evolution and emergence of linguistics. For Kristeva, the object of linguistic investigation is not “What is language?” but rather “How... (more)
Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art
Desire in Language presents a selection of Julia Kristeva’s essays that trace the path of an investigation, extending over a period of ten years, into the semiotics of literature and the arts.... (more)
Identification Papers: Readings on psychoanalysis, sexuality and culture
The notion of identification, especially in the discourse of feminist theory, has come sharply into focus alongside interest in topics such as 'queer performativity', cross-dressing and 'racial... (more)
Freudian Slips: Woman, Writing, the Foreign Tongue
Provides an original and provocative critique of language, sexuality, and the female body in Freud's 'Psychopathology of Everyday life'. The author argues that this popular statement of a theory of... (more)
Speculum of the other Woman
Her land-mark work on the status of women in Western philosophical discourse and in psychoanalytic theory. (more)
The emptiness of the image: psychoanalysis and sexual differences
This study argues that psychoanalytic theory retains an overwhelming explanatory strength in relation to questions of sexual difference and representation. It seeks to show how the issue of desire... (more)
Disorienting Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Reappraisals of Sexual Identities
Brings the methods and critiques of feminism, gay and lesbian scholarship and postmodernism to bear on psychoanalytic theories of sexuality. The text exposes the biases against gay men and lesbians... (more)
Delusions of Everyday Life
In this profound and eloquent book, an eminent psychoanalyst discusses the primitive and irrational delusions that are common to all of us. Drawing on the lives and works of such literary figures as... (more)
Genealogies of the Text Literature, psychoanalysis and politics in mo
Presents and conrasts Freud's and Kraepelin's interpretations of dream speech, and reassesses them in the light of modern linguistics. (more)
Fantasies of Love and Death in Life and Art: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Normal and Pathological
Addresses two fantasies concerning love and death: the passionate wish to die together with a loved one; and the desire to extend one's life and loves beyond death.
Freud, Race and Gender
A Jew in a violently anti-Semitic world, Sigmund Freud was forced to cope with racism even in the "serious" medical literature of the fin de sicle, which described Jews as inherently pathological and... (more)
The Case of Sigmund Freud: Medicine and Identity at the Fin de Siecle
Sander Gilman traces the "medicalization" of Jewishness in the science and medicine of turn-of-the-century Vienna, and the ways in which Jewish physicians responded to the effort to incorporate... (more)