Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
'Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to speak' The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from... (more)
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
Tough times don't last. Tough people do.
In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. Here Taleb stands uncer... (more)
A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities
This companion is a cutting-edge primer to critical forms of the posthumanities and the feminist posthumanities, aimed at students and researchers who want to catch up with the recent theoretical... (more)
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World
Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship between blackness and animality in the history of Western science and philosophy, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World breaks open... (more)
On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It
The Rwandan genocide, the Holocaust, the lynching of African Americans, the colonial slave trade: these are horrific episodes of mass violence spawned from racism and hatred. We like to think that we... (more)
Lives of Houses
A group of notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists,... (more)
Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary EditionI Thought it Was Just Me (but it Isn'T): Telling the Truth About Perfectionism,
Inadequacy and Power
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. Paulo Freire's work has helped to empower countless people throughout the world and... (more)
Freud for Architects
Freud for Architects explains what Freud offers to the understanding of architectural creativity and architectural experience, with case examples from early modern architecture to the... (more)
On What Cannot Be Said: Apophatic Discourses in Philosophy, Religion, Literature, and the Arts. Volume 2. Modern and Contemporary Transformations
This anthology gathers together the important historical works on apophaticism and illustrates the diverse trajectories of apophatic discourse in ancient, modern, and postmodern times. (more)
On What Cannot Be Said: Apophatic Discourses in Philosophy, Religion, Literature, and the Arts. Volume 1. Classic Formulations: Classic Formulations v. 1
This anthology gathers together the important historical works on apophaticism and illustrates the diverse trajectories of apophatic discourse in ancient, modern, and postmodern times. (more)
The Sleuth and the Goddess: Hestia, Artemis, Athena and Aphrodite in Women's Detective Fiction
Rowland presents a detailed exploration of how the archetypes of ancient goddesses Hestia, Artemis, Athena and Aphrodite breathe into and shape female-authored detective fiction. Representing aspects... (more)
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)
Antigone's Claim
This work argues that Antigone, the renowned insurgent from Sophocles's "Oedipus" and feminist icon, represents a form of sexual and feminist legacy that is fraught with risk. Judith Butler suggests... (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)
Why Feminism?: Gender, Psychology, Politics
This work explores the place of feminism in contemporary culture. For some, feminism is the favourite scapegoat for multiple social ills; for others, the greatest success story of the closing century. (more)