Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
Psychoanalysis, historiography, and feminist theory: The search for critical method
The author poses a feminist challenge to the hidden assumptions within conventional historiography by focusing on the troubled relationship between subjectivity and history. By applying Freud's... (more)
World in fragments: Writings on politics, society, psychoanalysis, and
Begins with a general introduction to the imaginary institution of society and the role of the psyche in racist thinking. The author shows how psychoanalysis, like politics, can contribute to the... (more)
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)
The psychic life of power: Theories in subjection
Drawing upon Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault, and Althusser, this work aims to offer a theory of subject formation that illuminates as ambivalent the psychic effects of social power. The author... (more)
The motives for creative work: An inquiry
This study examines the motives for creative work. It assesses and summarises a variety of ideas from various versions of psychoanalysis and existentialism, in order to determine the explanations... (more)
Masochism: The art of power
Through a study of the representations of masochism in literature, psychopathology, philosophy and cultural theory, this text challenges fundamental assumptions about masculine power in the... (more)
Inventing the psychological: Toward a cultural history of emotional life in America
Asking if the popular tendency to define the self in psychological language is derived from (Freudian) "truths", or whether American culture invents and promotes psychological identities, this text... (more)
Faulkner: The return of the repressed
Fowler provides a psychoanalytic treatment of Faulkner's work, employing a poststructuralist feminist methodology to assess the symbolic meanings of race and gender in "The Sound and the Fury", "As I... (more)
Imagined Human Beings: A psychologica approach to Character and Confli
Using Karen Horney's psychology, this book explores the inner conflicts of some the most famous characters in literature. Texts examined include Antigone, The Merchant of Venice, Jane Eyre, Wuthering... (more)
Piaget, philosophy and the human sciences
Piaget's theory of the development and nature of knowledge is discussed in the context of 20th-century European thought. His views are compared with those of Freud, Lacan, Heidegger, Foucault, and... (more)
Philosophy and non-philosophy since Merleau-Ponty
A collection of essays discussing contemporary writings and differing perspectives on the role of philosophy (and its relation to "non- philosophy") since the death of Merleau-Ponty. Covers the ideas... (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.
Image, Word and Self
In recent years much of the most creative work in the interpretation of Freud, as well as the application of psychoanalysis to the arts and social sciences, has taken place in Latin cultures. Here... (more)
The Mastery of Submission: Inventions of Masochism
Documents the evolution of the theory of masochism with scences in literature from Fanny Hill through Venus in Furs. Analysis of Freud's influential rereading of masochism precedes an exploration of... (more)
Positioning subjects: Psychoanalysis and critical educational studies
Believing that educational progressivism has overestimated the power of rationality, and has repressed any understanding of unconscious mental processes, the author uses psychoanalysis to explore the... (more)
Melville, Shame, and the Evil Eye: A Psychoanalytic Reading
This study offers a complex analysis of the psychodynamic role of shame in Melvilles work, with detailed readings of Moby Dick, Pierre and Billy Budd. Its concrete application of the work of Kohut... (more)
Love and Hate in the Nursery and Beyond: Voices from the Unconscious
Eisenbud probes issues around the Oedipus complex - expressions of infantile horror for the breast, ambivalence toward the mother from dependence on her and terrors of abandonment. She then describes... (more)
Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in Modern Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: A study of Sartre, Binswanger, Lacan and Habermas
This study of subjectivity and intersubjectivity develops an account of the subject rooted in philosophy and psychoanalytic theory. It examines the relationship between different theories of... (more)
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)
Religion, society, and psychoanalysis: Readings in contemporary theory
A collection of essays which brings together contemporary scholarship on religion and psychoanalysis to offer a social analysis of the meaning of religion. The book presents Freud's views on religion... (more)
Religion and psychology in transition: Psychoanalysis, feminism and theology
A dialogue between contemporary psychoanalytic thinking and contemporary theology is presented in this text. Light is shed on the interaction of religion and psychology by viewing it from the... (more)