Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory
How is psychoanalytic theory relevant in the modern age? How does it inform and interact with culture? From Freud to Lacan, this insightful text clearly explores key psychoanalytic writers, core... (more)
The God of the Left Hemisphere: Blake, Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation
The God of the Left Hemisphere explores the remarkable connections between the activities and functions of the human brain that writer William Blake termed 'Urizen' and the powerful complex of... (more)
Landscapes of the Chinese Soul: The Enduring Presence of the Cultural Revolution
In 1981 the Communist Party of China declared: “The ‘Cultural Revolution’, which lasted from May 1966 to October 1976, was responsible for the heaviest losses suffered by the Party, the state and the... (more)
Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis
Wilfred Bion once said, “I use the Kabbalah as a framework for psychoanalysis.” Both are preoccupied with catastrophe and faith, infinity and intensity of experience, shatter and growth of being that... (more)
Politics Identity and Emotion
In this wide-ranging book, Paul Hoggett argues that human feelings and identities are constitutive of both personal and political life. Engaging with major debates in political theory, sociology, and... (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)
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)
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)
Open Minded: Working Out the Logic of the Soul
"Freud is discredited, so we do not have to think about the darker strains of unconcious motivation anymore. We know what moves our political leaders, so we don't have to look closely at their... (more)
Anger, Madness and the Daimonic
In this provocative book, the author determines where anger and rage originate and explores whether these powerful passions are purely negative, pathological and evil, or whether they can be... (more)
The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art
A study of the application of psychoanalysis to art, and vice versa. (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)
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)
Psychoanalysis and Storytelling
Examines the relationship between literary narrative and psychoanalysis, using Freud's notion of transference as a model for how narratives work. (more)
From Dependency to Autonomy: Studies in Organisation and Change
The author draws on the experiences of three decades of working as an organizational consultant to various sorts of institutions, employing approaches drawn from psychoanalysis, systems theory, and... (more)
What Is Philosophy for?
Why should anybody take an interest in philosophy? Is it just another detailed study like metallurgy? Or is it similar to history, literature and even religion: a study meant to do some personal good... (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)
On Dangerous Ground: Freud’s Visual Cultures of the Unconscious
In the final years of the 19th century, Sigmund Freud began to construct evidence for the workings of an “unconscious.” On Dangerous Ground offers an innovative assessment of the complex role that... (more)
Critical Realism for Psychologists
This is the first dedicated text to explain and explore the utility of critical realism for psychologists, offering it as a helpful middle ground between positivism and postmodernism.
By... (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)
Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life
Jonathan Lear is one of the most distinctive intellectual voices in America, a philosopher and psychoanalyst who draws from ancient
and modern thought, personal history, and everyday experience to... (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)