Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
Gothic radicalism: Literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis in the nineteenth century
Applying ideas drawn from contemporary critical theory this book historicises psychoanalysis through a new, and significant, theorisation of the Gothic. The central premise is that the 19th-century... (more)
On black men:
Mutilated, dying or dead, black men have a role to play in the psychic life of culture. There is a demand that black men perform a script. This study explores the legacy of that demand on the image... (more)
Joyce, Derrida, Lacan and the trauma of history: Reading, narrative, and postcolonialism
In this work, the author examines the relationship between Joyce's postmodern textuality and the traumatic history of colonialism in Ireland. Joyce's influence on Lacanian psychoanalysis and... (more)
Samuel Beckett's hidden drives: Structural uses of depth psychology
Examines Beckett's almost obsessive concern with psychological sources, themes, and his use of Freudian and Jungian narrative structures. 432 pages.
Virginia Woolf: Feminism, creativity and the unconscious
A penetrating psychoanalytic reading of Virginia Woolf's novels from first to last. Underlying their elegant, imaginative, mysterious texture there is revealed a network of sibling rivalry,... (more)
Imagining otherwise: Metapsychology and the analytic a posteriori
This work performs a psychoanalytic inversion of transcendental philosophy, and reads Kant's synthetic _a priori_ judgments in terms of analytic _a posteriori_ metapsychology. 188 pages.
Shakespeare’s Hidden World: A Study of His Unconscious
This text focuses on the unconscious dimension of Shakespeare's art, examining the development of the structure of his plays. This development is seen as the reflection of a sustained regression into... (more)
The cultural dialectics of knowledge and desire
Offering a cognitive and psychoanalytic approach, this work demonstrates why culture is a problem that can never be solved. The author proposes a theory of cultural dialectics based on the concept of... (more)
Women, Love and Power
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Intimate Communications
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First Things: The maternal imaginary in literature, art and psychoanalysis
This study combines close readings with theoretical concerns, in an examination of the many forms taken by the mythic of phantasmic mother in literary, psychoanalytical and artistic representations.... (more)
Platonism and Positivism in Psychology
In this classic text, originally published as 'What Man Has Made of Man', Adler shows that psychology is - simultaneously - a particular social science, and a branch of philosophical knowledge. He... (more)
Israel on the Couch: The Psychology of the Peace Process
By applying a clinical psychologist's insight into the Israeli-Arab conflict, Ofer Grosbard lays the foundation for a new theory and practice that espouses the use of clinical tools to promote... (more)
Leo Bersani: Queer Theory and Beyond
For more than fifty years, Leo Bersani’s writing has inspired and challenged scholars in the fields of literary criticism and theory, cultural studies, queer theory, psychoanalysis, and film and... (more)
The Americanization of Narcissism
American social critics in the 1970s, convinced that their nation was in decline, turned to psychoanalysis for answers and seized on narcissism as the sickness of the age. Books indicting Americans... (more)
Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children's Literature
Children’s literature has spent decades on the psychiatrist’s couch, submitting to psychoanalysis by scores of scholars and popular writers. Freud in Oz suggests that psychoanalysts owe a significant... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Approach to Visual Artists
James W. Hamilton’s engaging book offers us his own unique insight into the unconscious factors involved in the creative processes associated with painting, filmmaking, and photography by studying... (more)
The Nature and Functions of Dreaming
The Nature and Function of Dreaming presents a comprehensive theory of dreaming based on many years of psychological and biological research by Ernest Hartmann and others. Critical to this theory is... (more)
Inside Out: Issue 1: Autumn 2008
"Inside Out" is a new breed of literary arts magazine. Part literary publication, part therapeutic expression, its aim is to promote creativity for self-development through the publication of a... (more)