Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
The Old Man and the Wolves: A Novel
Part detective story, part fable, this novel, narrated by a French journalist, takes the reader to a mythical postindustrial city where the boundaries between East and West, civilization and... (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)
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)
States of fantasy
This text argues for an expansion of the boundaries of "English" and the importance of psychoanalysis in understanding literary and historical lives. It also explores the place of Israel/Palestine... (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)
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)
Reproductions of reproduction
Covering a wide range of topics from popular culture, from 'Frankenstein' to 'Nintendo', and from baseball to bodybuilding. This study examines the relation between representation and technological... (more)
Culture, Psyche, and Teenage Pregnancy: A Case Study
Why does the pattern of unwed teenage pregnancy repeat in some families. 280 pages
Psychoanalytic Culture: Psychoanalytic discourse in Western society
Systematically reviews the key psychoanalytic theories and explores their relevance to modern life. Classical Freudian and object-relations theory is directed at the problem of group processes; ideas... (more)
Judaism and Psychoanalysis
Is psychoanalysis a "Jewish science"? Ten essays contributed by the editor and distinguished scholars explore the Jewishness of psychoanalysis, its origins in the Jewish situation of late nineteenth... (more)
Presence in the flesh: The body in medicine
The tendency of medicine to separate self and body, and the body's means of resistance, is the focus of this book. Disembodiment is the founding gesture of medicine - the author argues - so how can... (more)
Ultimate Intimacy: The Psychodynamics of Jewish Mysticism
With contributions and comments from a range of distinguished Biblical scholars, this work fulfills Mortimer Ostow's promise to unite psychoanalysis and the study of the Kabbalah. Ranging over both... (more)
Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic andIinitiation in the life of an African Shaman
Maliodoma Patrice Some was born in a Dagara Village, however he was soon to be abducted to a Jesuit school, where he remained for the next fifteen years, being harshly indoctrinated into european... (more)
Law and the Unconscious: A Legendre Reader
Law and the Unconscious is the first work of the French legal philosopher Pierre Legendre to appear in English. Trained as a lawyer, a historian and a psychoanalyst, the work of Pierre Legendre has... (more)
Ethics and the Discovery of the Unconscious
Shows why the discovery of the unconscious by Nietzsche and Freud demands a reconceptualisation of 'moral agency' and 'responsibility' - and even of morality itself. Riker develops a new moral... (more)