Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
Anger, Madness and the Daimonic
In this provocative book, the author determines where anger and rage originate and explores whether these powerful passions are purely negative, pathological and evil, or whether they can be... (more)
Listening Subjects: Music, Psychoanalysis, Culture
David Schwarz uses psychoanalytic techniques to probe the visceral experiences of music listeners. Using classical, popular, and avant-garde music as texts, Schwarz addresses intriguing questions:... (more)
Psychoanalytic studies of religion: A critical assessment and annotated bibliography
This guide to the literature on psychoanalytic approaches to religion provides a wide range of critical assessments, and steers the reader towards works considered of lasting value. The book includes... (more)
Coming Attractions: The Making of an X-Rated Video
Examines the psychological make-up of the participants in a hard porn video, including performers, writers, directors, producers and technicians. (more)
Psychoanalytic Sociology: Second Edition: Two Volumes
This two-volume work presents a selection of articles on the inter-relations between psychoanalysis and sociology. Recent developments are reviewed in a new introductory chapter. Topics include the... (more)
Fire in the Dragon and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore
The only Freudian to have been originally trained in folklore and the first psychoanalytic anthropologist to carry out fieldwork, Geza Roheim (1891-1953) contributed substantially to the worldwide... (more)
The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond
Derrida's classic text on transmission, narrative and transference. (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Patriarchal Tradition: Augustine to Milton
In cogently argued and brilliant readings of texts ranging from St. Augustine’s Confessions to Milton’s Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes,Psychoanalysis and the Patriarchal... (more)
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our... (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)
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)
Knot of the Soul: Madness, Psychoanalysis, Islam
In this unsettling and innovative book, anthropologist Stefania Pandolfo addresses the problematic of the subject through a dual examination of psychoanalysis and Islamic theological-medical... (more)
The Myths We Live By
Mary Midgley argues in her powerful new book that far from being the opposite of science, myth is a central part of it. In brilliant prose, she claims that myths are neither lies nor mere stories but... (more)
Psychoanalysis, History and Subjectivity: Now of the Past
Clinical psychoanalysis since Freud has put reconstruction of the patient's history at the forefront of its task but in recent years, this approach has not been so prominent. This book aims to... (more)
The Feminine and the Sacred
Two of France's leading thinkers investigate stories of African rites, Catholic saints and psychological case studies in an overarching exploration of how women throughout the world cope with forces... (more)
Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind
Soul Machine takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of human inner life. This... (more)
Wisdom Won from Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
Wisdom Won from Illness brings into conversation two fields of humane inquiry - psychoanalysis and moral philosophy - that seem to have little to say to one another but which, taken together, form a... (more)
Inventing God: Psychology of Belief and the Rise of Secular Spirituality
In this controversial book, philosopher and psychoanalyst Jon Mills argues that God does not exist; and more provocatively, that God cannot exist as anything but an idea. Put concisely, God is a... (more)
The Architecture of Psychoanalysis: Spaces of Transition
How do external material environments and the inner world of emotion, memory and imagination influence each other? In this thought-provoking book, Jane Rendell explores how architectural space... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Literature: The Stories We Live
Psychoanalysis offers many concepts that are extremely useful clinically but not always accessible in the original. In Psychoanalysis and Literature: The Stories We Live, Marilyn Charles pairs case... (more)
Religion and Psychoanalysis in India: Critical Clinical Practice
Religion and Psychoanalysis in India questions the assumptions of an established scientific, evidence-based global mental health paradigm by examining the practices of faith-based healing. It... (more)
The Bonds of Love, Revisited
Jessica Benjamin is one of the most important and influential psychoanalysts of the last four decades. She is one of the founders of relational psychoanalysis, a movement that has by now expanded... (more)
Women and Images of Men in Cinema: Gender Construction in La Belle et la Bête by Jean Cocteau
Women and men in cinema are imaginary constructs created by filmmakers and their audiences. The film-psychoanalytic approach reveals how movies subliminally influence unconscious reception. On the... (more)
Fragile Learning: The Influence of Anxiety
What are the barriers and obstacles to adults learning? What makes the process of adult learning so fragile? And what exactly do we mean by Fragile Learning? This book addresses these questions in... (more)
Television and Psychoanalysis: Psycho-Cultural Perspectives
Despite the prominence of television in our everyday lives, psychoanalytic approaches to its significance and function are notoriously few and far between. This volume takes up perspectives from... (more)
Contingency, Hegemony and Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left
The Hegelian legacy, Left strategy, and post-structuralism versus Lacanian psychoanalysis.
What is the contemporary legacy of Gramsci's notion of Hegemony? How can universality be reformulated... (more)
Foucault, Psychology and the Analytics of Power
This innovative book explores the application of Michel Foucault's work to the field of psychology. Throughout his work Foucault develops a powerful critique of the uses of psychological knowledge... (more)
Unspeakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Culture
See catalogue number 29198 for the paperback edition. Explores the radical political potential of close reading to make the case for a new and invigorated psychoanalytic cultural studies. Esther... (more)
Off the Couch
A humorous look at the world of therapy in a series of amusing cartoon drawings. The perfect present for all those interested in psychotherapy, counselling and psychoanalysis. (more)
Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy
This edited collection looks at education through the lens of psychoanalysis and vice versa. Each contribution asks, in effect, what does it mean to be a pedagogue and an educational theorist after... (more)