Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
Shame and Sexuality: Psychoanalysis and Visual Culture
Why do human beings feel shame? What is the cultural dimension of shame and sexuality? Can theory understand the power of affect? How is psychoanalysis integral to cultural theory? The experience 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)
Feminism and its discontents: A century of struggle with psychoanalysis
With Sigmund Freud flummoxed on the question of what women want, any encounter between psychoanalysis and feminism would seem to promise a standoff. However, Mari Jo Buhle argues that the... (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)
The Colors of Violence: Cultural Identities, Religion, and Conflict
For decades India has been the scene of outbursts of religious violence, thrusting many ordinary Hindus and Muslims into bloody conflict. This work analyzes the psychological roots of Hindu-Muslim... (more)
The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination
Explores the difference between the sexes with reference to object-relations theory and Hegelian philosophy.
A Psycho-Political Analysis of Netanyahu’s Israel: The Israeli Anxiety
This book weaves together philosophical, theological, psychoanalytical and political paradigms, providing both a historicization and a theorization of the Israeli experience and encompassing... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Society and Culture: Building Bridges
This book looks at the intersection of psychoanalytic thinking, society and culture, using examples drawn from literature, clinical practice and everyday life.
The book explores the various ways... (more)
Proust and the Sense of Time
Julia Kristeva presents a thoroughly original and compelling reading of Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, first delivered at the 1992 T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures at Canterbury. Kristeva's first... (more)
The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic: A story of science, sex and psychoanalysis
A brilliantly witty book about the intertwined lives of psychoanalyst Ernest Jones, surgeon Wilfred Trotter and the guru of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud.
Ernest Jones was Sigmund Freud's... (more)
Opera on the Couch: Music, Emotional Life, and Unconscious Aspects of Mind
In this widely ranging collection of essays, a group of contemporary psychoanalyst/authors turn their finely-honed listening skills and clinical experience to plumb the depths and illuminate themes... (more)
Media and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Introduction
Our lives are saturated by media that we use in conscious as well as unconscious ways. Spanning a wide range of examples, from film and TV to social media, from gaming to robots, this critical... (more)
Frink and Freud
In 1909, while on a fundraising lecture tour in America, Sigmund Freud met Horace Frink, an early disciple of his theories of psychoanalysis, whose traumatic childhood and complicated personal life... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature: Reading the Reader
What are the unconscious processes involved in reading literature? How does literature influence our psychological development existential challenges? A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading... (more)
Women, Sex, and Madness: Notes from the Edge
Covering a wide variety of subjects and points of inquiry on women's sexuality, from genital anxieties about pubic hair to constructions of the body in the therapy room, this book offers a... (more)
Key Thinkers in Individual Differences: Ideas on Personality and Intelligence
Key Thinkers in Individual Differences introduces the life, work and thought of 25 of the most influential figures who have shaped and developed the measurement of intelligence and personality.... (more)
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
The Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth about race and identity in Britain today You're British. Your parents are British. Your partner, your children and most of your... (more)
Words in Pain: Letters on Life and Death
Words in Pain is a rediscovered treasure. First published anonymously in 1919, these letters from a dying woman to her doctor encapsulate an attitude to death which is fiercely independent of... (more)
Consciousness and Loneliness: Theoria and Praxis
Current research claims loneliness is passively caused by external conditions: environmental, cultural, situational, and even chemical imbalances in the brain and hence avoidable. In this book, the... (more)
Why Does Patriarchy Persist?
The election of an unabashedly patriarchal man as US President was a shock for many--despite decades of activism on gender inequalities and equal rights, how could it come to this? What is it about... (more)
Schelling, Freud and the Philosophical Foundations of Psychoanalysis: Uncanny Belonging
Schelling, Freud, and the Philosophical Foundations of Psychoanalysis provides a long-overdue dialogue between two seminal thinkers, Schelling and Freud. Through a sustained reading of the sublime,... (more)
Temporality and Shame: Perspectives from Psychoanalysis and Philosophy
Temporality has been a central preoccupation of modern philosophy, and shame has been a major theme in contemporary psychoanalysis. To date, however, there has been little examination of the critical... (more)
History Flows through Us: Germany, the Holocaust, and the Importance of Empathy
History Flows Through Us introduces a new dialogue between leading historians and psychoanalysts and provides essential insights into the nature of historical trauma. The contributors - German... (more)
The Myths We Live By
Mary Midgley argues in her powerful new book that far from being the opposite of science, myth is a central part of it. In brilliant prose, she claims that myths are neither lies nor mere stories but... (more)
Women Without a Shadow: Maternal Desire and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
The recent and rapid development of reproductive technologies has brought into question many concepts at the heart of our culture, such as human reproduction, motherhood and fatherhood. Such concepts... (more)
Divine Therapy: Love, Mysticism and Psychoanalysis
Many debate whether religion is good for our health. Starting with this question, Janet Sayers provides a fascinating account of today's psychotherapy. Divine Therapy is told through love stories.... (more)
Philosophy in the Flesh
What are human beings like? How is knowledge possible? What is truth? Where do moral values come from? Questions like these have stood at the centre of Western philosophy for centuries. In addressing... (more)
Psychoanalysis, History and Subjectivity: Now of the Past
Clinical psychoanalysis since Freud has put reconstruction of the patient's history at the forefront of its task but in recent years, this approach has not been so prominent. This book aims to... (more)