Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
Never marry a girl with a dead father: Hysteria in the 19th century novel
The author reveals that the hysterical female character of the 19th-century novel is more than just a literary femme fatale, and contends, using readings from Balzac, Eliot and others, that these... (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
288 pages. (more)
Wittgenstein reads Freud: The myth of the unconscious
Did Freud present a scientific hypothesis concerning the unconscious? This question is of utmost importance to Lacanian analysts, and the author of this work contributes to the debate by turning to... (more)
The therapeutic narrative: Fictional relationships and the process of psychological change
This text explores a variety of novels that describe internal, personal change. It illustrates that there are parallels between the processes that lead to change in literary characters and the... (more)
Psychoanalysis, language, and the body of the text
Combining contemporary linguistics and psychoanalysis, this work focuses on how the body emerges in the novel. In particular, it looks at the role that language plays in integrating the body and the... (more)
The artist and the emotional world: Creativity and personality
Attempts to discern the role of personality in helping or hindering creative production. This book assesses the traits necessary to prepare someone for a creative career, as well the crucial... (more)
Valuing emotions
Combining philosophy, psychoanalysis and anthropology, this work explores the complexity and importance of man. It places emotions at the centre of human identity, life and value, and examines the... (more)
The sources of moral agency: Essays in moral psychology and Freudian theory
The essays in this collection are concerned with the psychology of moral agency. They focus on moral feelings and moral motivation, and seek to understand the operations and origins of these... (more)
Oedipus, Philosopher
Argues that if the logic of the Oedipus myth were subjected to analysis with the tools of anthropology, comparative mythology and narratology, it might invalidate the approach to the Oedipus Complex... (more)
Male Fantasies: Volume 2: Psychoanalyzing the White Terror
This is the second volume of Theweleit's extraordinary study of the fantasies of some of the men centrally involved in the rise of Nazism. The author develops his account by focusing on the... (more)
Intimate Communications
467 pages. (more)
Clinical Stories and their Translations
Clinical Stories and Their Translations proposes and illustrates via numerous case examples, the utility of a psychology-informed ethnographic method of clinical thinking, teaching, supervision and... (more)
Female Homosexuality: Choice Without Volition, A Psychoanalytic Study
This text describes the analytic treatment of eight female homosexuals with common symptoms of incomplete body image and unconscious denial of differences between the sexes. It details the recurring... (more)
Between Author and Reader: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Writing and Reading
Addresses the questions of what author and reader want from each other, and uses psychoanalysis to study the acts of writing and reading using the empathic and introspective methods of the working... (more)
Psychological anthropology reconsidered
This text reviews developments in psychological anthropology, and argues for an eclectic approach that allows room for psychoanalytic, dialogical, and social perspectives on personality and culture.... (more)
Fantasy and reality in history
Integrating history, political psychology, and psychoanalysis, this study examines the psycho-sexual conflicts of charismatic political leaders, including Gladstone and Zhirinovsky. It explores... (more)
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)
Psychoanalytic literary criticism
Provides examples of the literary criticism which has emerged from the conjunction between psychoanalysis and post-structuralism. The book defines concepts and methods by tracing the role the story... (more)