Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
Freud and Nietzsche
Many of the leading Freudian analysts, including Jung, Adler, Reich and Rank, attempted to link the writings of Nietzsche with the clinical work of Freud. But what was Nietzsche to Freud - an... (more)
Dostoevsky: The author as psychoanalyst
Approaches Dostoevsky psychoanalytically, not as a patient to be analysed, but as a fellow psychoanalyst, someone whose life and fiction are intertwined in the process of literary self-exploration. (more)
Wretched of the Earth
Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961, Frantz Fanon'sWretched of the Earth has provided inspiration for anti-colonial... (more)
On Female Body Experience: Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays
Questions of embodiment have become central to feminist theory, challenging the prevailing notion of disembodied reason in epistemology and criticizing modern political theory for separating human... (more)
Contemporary French Feminism:
Have we entered a historical moment of 'post-feminism'? This volume presents a timely and convincing 'no'. These essays demonstrate that there is a new generation of French women who take up... (more)
Nonsense Against Sorrow: A Phenomenological Study of Lewis Carroll's Alice Books
What kind of a man was Lewis Carroll, and what motivated him to write the "Alice" books? David Holbrook draws on Carroll's correspondence, as well as the work of 20th-century psychoanalysts to step... (more)
Stranger on the earth: A psychological biography of Vincent van Gogh
This work provides an in-depth study of the relationship between van Gogh's psychological development and his art. It draws on the tremendous wealth of information available about van Gogh to explore... (more)
The Emperor's embrace: Reflections on animal families and fatherhood
A showcase of the extraordinary behaviour of outstanding fathers in the animal kingdom. From the King Penguin, who incubates the eggs of his young to the sea horse, the only male animal that gives... (more)
Infant figures:
This text juxtaposes philosophical and psychoanalytic speculation with literary and artistic commentary in order to approach a set of questions concerning the human relation to language. The text... (more)
Passions and convictions in matters political: Explorations in moral psychology
This text attempts to preserve the Frankfurt School account of fascism, of the 1950s, whilst integrating them into a psychoanalytical model of politics which draws on Kleinian thought. It also... (more)
Emotional life and the politics of welfare:
Social policy and political theory are based upon rationalist models of the human subject. Drawing particularly upon contemporary Kleinian and feminist political theory the author explores the... (more)