Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
Spirit, Mind, and Brain: A Psychoanalytic Examination of Spirituality and Religion
Mortimer Ostow proposes an explanation of spiritual experience and religious motivation that is rooted in the analysis of early childhood emotional attachments. This novel approach, which can be... (more)
Sculpture and Psychoanalysis
The present collection of essays, unique in its field, shows how key metaphors of Freudian and Kleinian psychoanalysis - splitting, projection, sublimation, identification, the schizoid and... (more)
9/11: The Culture of Commemoration
After the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001, a general sense that the world was different - that nothing would ever be the same - settled upon a grieving nation; the events of that day were... (more)
Reading Freud: Psychoanalysis as Cultural History
Cultural theory has found a renewed interest in psychoanalysis, bringing many new readers to Freud and his work. This book is an introductory guide to Freud and brings together for the first time: an... (more)
Judith Butler: Sexual Politics, Social Change and the Power of the Performative
Judith Butler's work on gender, sexuality, identity, and the body has proved massively influential across a range of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Yet it is also... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Image: Transdisciplinary Perspectives
"Psychoanalysis and the Image" brings together an influential team of international scholars who demonstrate innovative ways to apply psychoanalytical resources in the study of international modern... (more)
The Matrixial Borderspace
A groundbreaking intertwining of the philosophy of art and psychoanalytic theory. Artist, psychoanalyst, and feminist theorist Bracha Ettinger presents an original theoretical exploration of shared... (more)
Marx's Concept of Man
Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm saw the philosophy of Marx as rooted in humanist Western philosophical tradition and representing, essentially, "a protest against man's alienation." In this work,... (more)
Poetics of Psychoanalysis: In the Wake of Klein
"The Poetics of Psychoanalysis: In the Wake of Klein" explores the literary aspects of the twentieth-century psychoanalytic tradition that has come to be known as British Object Relations... (more)
Electra After Freud: Myth and Culture
Almost everyone knows about Oedipus and his mother, and many readers would put the Oedipus myth at the forefront of Western collective mythology. In Electra after Freud, Jill Scott leaves that couple... (more)
Subject to Ourselves: Social Theory, Psychoanalysis and Postmodernity
Examines current debates about modernity and postmodernity from the viewpoint of psychoanalytic theory. The story develops an account of postmodernity which supplants current understandings of... (more)
Metaphors We Live By
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson suggest that basic metaphors used in everyday speech not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the... (more)
Ethics, Politics and Difference in Julia Kristeva's Writing:
An intervention in Kristevan scholarship and a significant and exciting contribution in its own right to post-structuralist discussions of ethical and political agency and practice. (more)
Art and Social Theory
Art and Social Theory provides a comprehensive introduction to sociological studies of the arts. It examines the central debates of social theorists and sociologists about the place of the arts in... (more)
Religion and Psychology: Mapping the Terrain
This work is a survey of the current state of the relationship between religion and psychology from the leading scholars in the field. The issues included are: the psychology-theology dialogue; the... (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)
The Couch and the Silver Screen: Psychoanalytic Reflections on European Cinema
A collection of original contributions which explore European cinema from psychoanalytic perspectives. Both classic and contemporary films are presented and analysed by a variety of authors,... (more)
Resistance to Multiculturalism: Issues and Interventions
Multiculturalism has moved to the forefront of research and coursework in psychology and the helping professions. This text examines the subtle forms of racism and resistance to the multicultural... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Art: Kleinian Perspectives
This essential edition brings together a collection of classic papers from key figures in Kleinian and post-Kleinian thought that explore the relationship between psychoanalysis and art.
Sandra... (more)
Key Papers in Literature and Psychoanalysis
Since Freud invoked the Oedipus story to exemplify and verify his findings with patients and in analyzing his own dreams, psychoanalysis and literature have had a fruitful if often distrusting... (more)
Happiness, Death and the Remainder of Life
Separated by millennia, Aristotle and Sigmund Freud both offered disparate pictures of the human condition. This book analyzes these thinkers' theories of human behaviour in terms of a higher... (more)
Nazi Psychoanalysis, Volume 1: Only Psychoanalysis Won the War
A sweeping, magisterial work by one of the most incisive and interesting scholars of modern philosophy, theory, and culture,
Does God Help?: Developmental and Clinical Aspects of Religious Belief
Can psychoanalysis lead us toward understanding the roots and nature of religious belief? In this text, five classical psychoanalysts representing five different religious faiths share their... (more)
Terror and Transformation: The Ambiguity of Religion in Psychoanalytic Perspectives
This is the first book to address the nature of religion and its capacity to sponsor both terrorism and transformation in terms of contemporary relational psychoanalytic theory. (more)
Feminist engagements: Reading, resisting, and revisioning male theorists in education and cultural studies
In this work, some of the top names in feminist education read, resist and revise the works of the major 20th-century theorists in education and cultural studies. These essays provide a feminist... (more)
Inventing our Selves: Psychology, Power and Personhood
Inventing Our Selves proposes a radical new approach to the analysis of our current regime of the self, and the values of autonomy, identity, individuality, liberty, and choice that animate it. It... (more)
Opera's Second Death
This work explores the relationship between opera and psychoanalysis. Ziezek and Dolar consider, for example, death in opera and orgasm (the little death for which opera may be imagined to be a... (more)
Joy and the Objects of Psychoanalysis: Literature, Belief, and Neurosis
A remarkable rendering of psychoanalysis in contemporary thought and literature, offering a compelling theory of human development. (more)