Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
Color of angels: Cosmology, gender and the aesthetic imagination
This text looks at the symbolism of the senses which animated the cosmos before the modern scientific view of the world came to dominate, revealing the gender politics behind such sensory constructs... (more)
Ghosts: Deconstruction, psychoanalysis, history
These essays consider the importance of the metaphor of haunting as it has appeared in literature, culture and philosophy. Haunting is considered as both a literal and figurative term that... (more)
Blacks and Jews on the Couch: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Black-Jewish Conflict
The Black-Jewish conflict in the US, without effective strategies for intervention, can only be expected to worsen. This volume suggests a psychoanalytic approach to addressing and resolving the... (more)
The Other Freud: Religion, Culture and Psychoanalysis
This is an analysis of Freud's major writings on religion and culture. The author analyses the texts and uses theories derived from contemporary French theorists Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva, in... (more)
Body Talk: The Material and Discursive Regulation of Sexuality, Madness and Reproduction.
This collection of analyses attempts to reconcile two diverse approaches to the body - the realist perspective of psychology and the socio-cultural approach of sociologists, anthropologists and... (more)
Psycho-politics and Cultural Desires
A cultural studies textbook that deals with issues of methodology, as well as mapping out the history and theories of the subject. The book focuses on the past, present and future of cultural... (more)
Mourning sex: Performing public memories
This study employs a range of cultural representations in order to examine how cultures perform 'mourning'. Experimentally and theoretically informed, this text places performance theory in a... (more)
Reconstructing the psychological subject: bodies, practices and techno
Drawing on perspectives which include feminism, dialogics, poststructuralism, hermeneutics, Lacanian psychoanalysis and social studies of science, this text guides the reader through key debates on... (more)
Feminist Groupwork
Explores the purposes, practice and effectiveness of groupwork with women. It draws upon the author's own experience of setting up and running community-based women's groups. 200 pages. (more)
Open Minded: Working Out the Logic of the Soul
"Freud is discredited, so we do not have to think about the darker strains of unconcious motivation anymore. We know what moves our political leaders, so we don't have to look closely at their... (more)
Presenting the past: Psychoanalysis and the sociology of misremembering
Psychology is the dogma of our age, psychotherapy is our means of self-understanding, and "repressed memory" is now a universally familiar form of trauma. The author explores the degree to which we... (more)
Freud 2000
Offers an application of Freudian concepts to current theoretical issues in the social sciences and the humanities. Issues addressed include the impact of Freud on our understandings of identity and... (more)
The feminist difference: Literature, psychoanalysis, race, and gender
Embattled and belittled, demonized and deemed passé, this text argues that feminism in the late 1990s seems becalmed, but without being calm. It is as true in literary criticism as elsewhere in the... (more)
Feminism and its discontents: A century of struggle with psychoanalysis
With Sigmund Freud flummoxed on the question of what women want, any encounter between psychoanalysis and feminism would seem to promise a standoff. However, Mari Jo Buhle argues that the... (more)
Affective Genealogies: Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism and the Jewish Question After Auschwitz
Affective Genealogies is an incisive contribution to the current reassessment of postmodern culture and theory. Elizabeth J. Bellamy examines how the Holocaust and Jews have been represented in a... (more)
The thin woman: A feminist post-structuralist psychology of anorexia nervosa
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Wittgenstein on Freud and Frazer
What is it that troubles and preoccupies us about the anxieties and anguishes of social and private life? Have advances in the disciplines of psychoanalysis, psychology or the social sciences in... (more)
Serial killers: Death and life in America's wound culture
In this study, the serial killer emerges as a central figure in what the author calls "America's wound culture". The language of psychoanalysis is used to explore the genesis of this modern... (more)
Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Reappraisal
What is psychoanalytic criticism, and how can it be justified as a type of criticism in its own right? In this second, revised edition of her seminal textbook, Elizabeth Wright provides a cogent... (more)
Psychoanalysis and culture: Contemporary states of mind
Provides an introduction to key issues concerning the application of psychoanalytic theories to culture. The argument of this volume is that we cannot grasp the complexity of contemporary global... (more)
The Enigma of the Oceanic Feeling: Revisioning the Psychoanalytic Theory of Mysticism
This study examines the history of the psychoanalytic theory of mysticism, beginning with the correspondence between Freud and Romain Rolland on the concept of the "oceanic feeling". The author... (more)
Death and the mother: from Dickens to Freud
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Lost Subjects, Contested Objects: Toward a Psychoanalytic Inquiry of Learning
This book argues for the reconsideration by education of the implications of psychoanalytic ideas on love and hate for the design of programmes for learning and pedagogy. Britzman sets in tension... (more)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Patient: Psychodynamic Studies of the Creative Personality
An attempt to explore the dynamics of an unfulfilled, unrecognized and perplexed young artist. The artist lives in two worlds: one is factual, linear and reality-driven; the other is creatively... (more)
Quiet as it's kept: Shame, trauma and race in the novels of Toni Morrison
Drawing on and extending recent psychoanalytic and psychiatric work of shame and trauma theorists, this book offers an in-depth analysis of Toni Morrison's representation of painful and shameful race... (more)
Shamans Mystics & Doctors
'Sudhir Kakar, a psychoanalyst and scholar, brilliantly illuminates the ancient healing traditions of India embodied in the rituals of shamans, the teachings of gurus, and the precepts of the school... (more)
The World of Adolescence: Literature, Society and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
This text addresses three literary works with adolescence in mind: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing and Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. These set the stage for the clinical material... (more)
Undressing cinema: Clothes, identities, films
Focussing on the narrative significance of clothes in film, this text proposes new links between cinema, fashion and costume history, gender, queer theory, and psychoanalysis. It examines the... (more)