Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
Raskolnikov's rebirth:
Explains how Freud's theory of psychoanalysis helps clarify ethics and the nature of good and evil, arguing that its strength lies in its ability to reflect upon human life and the different modes of... (more)
Inside/outside Nietzsche: Psychoanalytic explorations
Friedrich Nietzsche is both subject and interlocutor in this study. The book mirrors the psychoanalytic situation, mediating between the interiority of Nietzsche's biography (and the philosophical... (more)
Therapeutic dimensions of autobiography in creative writing
Therapeutic Dimensions of Autobiography in Creative Writing brings together theory and practice from psychoanalysis, literary and cultural studies and the growing field of creative writing studics.... (more)
Contemporary psychoanalysis and masterworks of art and film:
This text sets out to demonstrate that a psychoanalytic point of view can enrich one's understanding and appreciation of works of art. It draws on late-1990s psychoanalytic views of the importance of... (more)
The Bounds of Reason: Habermas, Lyotard and Melanie Klein on Rationality
A highly original yet accessible study of the debate between modernity and postmodernity. Emilia Steuerman clearly explains the modernity/postmodernity dispute by examining the problem that has... (more)
Psychiatry and the Cinema
This text examines psychiatry and the cinema. It looks at the typology, mythology, and ideology of the psychiatrist in movies. It also examines psychoanalytic film criticism and such issues as... (more)
On the emotions
An account of the emotions, using insights from literature, psychoanalysis and philosophy. Starting from the premise that emotions form a distinct psychological category, Wollheim argues that they... (more)
Psychology and religion: An introduction
Should psychology try to explain religion or try to understand it? The author of this book ranges over the whole of psychology to look at the results of psychology's study of religion. His belief in... (more)
Foucault and religion:
This study of Michel Foucault in relation and response to religion argues that Foucault offeres a twofold critique of Christianity by bringing the body and sexuality into religious practice and... (more)
Psychotherapy and Spirituality: Crossing the line between therapy and religion
This thoughtful and intelligent book encourages psychotherapists and counsellors to consider seriously the relationship between spiritual experiences and therapeutic practice. 152 pages. (more)
Vital Signs: Nature, culture, psychoanalysis.
Offers a radical new understanding of the role of psychoanalytic theory in contemporary French thought. Drawing on Lacan, Kristeva and Foucault among others, the author bridges the gap between theory... (more)
Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and the Making of Early Modern Culture
Did people in early modern Europe have a concept of an inner self? The contributors of this book explore the complicated, nuanced, and often surprising union of history and subjectivity in Europe... (more)
The sense and non-sense of revolt: The powers and limits of psychoanalysis
Linguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist Julia Kristeva explores one aspect of 20th-century culture - rebellion - in this text. She illustrates the advances and impasses of rebel culture through... (more)
Culture and Human Development:
A major new textbook which focuses on the interface between cultural psychology and developmental psychology. This wide-ranging overview of the cultural perspectives of human development will be a... (more)
The Thread of Life
An approach to the philosophical understanding of a person. Countering prevailing theories on the nature of persons, it submits an account of the mind dynamically conceived and proposes that we take... (more)
Analytic Freud: Philosophy and psychoanalysis
This collection of essays on the importance of Freudian thought for analytic philosophy, investigates its impact on mind, ethics, sexuality, religion and epistemology. The book addresses the... (more)
Freudian Analysts / Feminist Issues
In this book Judith M. Hughes makes a highly original case for conceptualizing gender identity as potentially multiple. She does so by situating her argument within the history of psychoanalysis.... (more)
Freud - Political and social thought
Sigmund Freud had broad ambitions about what psychoanalysis could add to human thought, but Freud's own writings have rarely been assessed within the perspective of political philosophy. This work... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Culture at the Millennium
A stimulating and important collection of essays which explore the influence of psychoanalysis on culture and thought. (more)
Heterosexuality in Question
An overview of recent feminist and sociological debates on heterosexuality and the construction of desire - without recourse to psychoanalysis. The author draws on feminism, along with... (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)
Subject to Biography: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Writing Women's Lives
This text examines the psychological and intellectual demands writing a biography makes on the biographer and explores the complex and conflicted relationship between feminism and psychoanalysis. 224... (more)
The social edges of psychoanalysis:
This text collects together the author's essays on psychoanalytic concepts. Psychoanalytic theory has had an ambivalent relationship with sociology, and these essays explore that ambivalence,... (more)
Imagination in theory: Essays on culture and writing
Taking culture, theory and writing as its themes, this text explores these through work on aesthetics, cultural politics, subjectivity, developments 224 pages. (more)
Bisexuality: A critical reader
Presenting the essential primary texts on bisexuality since 1900, this text explores this often controversial concept from a range of perspectives. It places bisexuality in its historical and... (more)
Experiencing Identity
This study of classical social theory, modern social theory and psychoanalysis is organized around the themes of experience and identity. The author critiques sociological accounts of identity,... (more)
The guided mind: A sociogenetic approach to personality
How is something as complex as the personality organized? What makes up a satisfactory theory of the personality? This study addresses these questions, as the author attempts to integrate two... (more)
Philosophy and the maternal body
Drawing examples from Plato, Marx, Freud and Klein, the author shows how the maternal body has played a crucial but often overlooked role in shaping ideas at the heart of Western philosophy. She also... (more)