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)
Positioning subjects: Psychoanalysis and critical educational studies
Believing that educational progressivism has overestimated the power of rationality, and has repressed any understanding of unconscious mental processes, the author uses psychoanalysis to explore the... (more)
Performance anxieties: Staging psychoanalysis, staging race
Looks at the on-going debate concerning the value of psychoanalysis for feminist theory and politics - specifically concerning the social and psychical meanings of 'race'. The author indicates how... (more)
Other women: Lesbian / bisexual experience and psychoanalytic views of women
In reassessing traditional psychoanalysis, this text fromulates new theories for evaluating women's sexuality. The author argues that the dynamics of lesbian and bisexual relationships are "part" of... (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)
Cultural pluralism and psychoanalysis: The Asian and American experience
This volume explores the creative dialogue in which psychoanalysts since Freud have engaged the modern Northern European / North American culture of individualism. The focus is on the the ways in... (more)
Oscar Wilde: A long and lovely suicide
A psychoanalytic biography of Oscar Wilde which explores the links between little-known childhood events and figures in his life and his psychological development to explain both Wilde's creativity... (more)
The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art
A study of the application of psychoanalysis to art, and vice versa. (more)
Shadow Lines: Austrian Literature from Freud to Kafka
Intellectual culture in early twentieth-century Austria reached levels of originality and excellence that have rarely been equalled before or since. Shadow Lines examines works by major novelists,... (more)
Women Beyond Freud: New Concepts of Feminine Psychology
A compilation of contemporary papers on female psychology. (more)
Art and psychoanalysis
A clearly written, informative, and stimulating contribution to the fields of art history and psychoanalysis. (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)
Feminism and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Dictionary
A comprehensive overview of psychoanalytic theories and their relationship to feminist thought. (more)
Representing the woman: cinema and psychoanalysis
A study of the theory and politics of representation in narrative film. Questioning current accounts of cinema's pleasures for men and women, this text draws on the psychoanalytic theory of Freud and... (more)
Oedipus ubiquitous: The family complex in world folk literature
Whether or not the Oedipus complex is universal has been the subject of controversy ever since Freud made it the centre-piece of psychoanalytic theory. This text re-examines the debate over the... (more)
The Threshold of the visible world
Examining the topic of love, this work argues that it has a political role to play as well as a role within the psychic domain. It brings together Benjamin's notion of the aura with Brecht's notion... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Ethics
Reinterprets Freud's ideas on the various psychological issues relevant to morality and examines their ethical implications.
The religious and romantic origins of psychoanalysis: Individuation and integration in post-Freudian theory
This work traces the origins of contemporary psychoanalysis back to the foundations of Judaeo-Christian culture, and challenges the prevailing view that modern theories of the self mark a radical... (more)
The Psychoanalytic Mind: From Freud to Philosophy
This work discusses the view that there is no thought - and thus, no meaning - without language, and shows how this concurs with psychoanalytic theory and practice. It covers: the explanation of... (more)
Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literature and Cultural Theory
Uses post-structuralist discourse and Lacanian psychoanalysis to revise and re-articulate the politics of sexuality, discussing issues such as sexual identity, homophobia and feminism. Brings a... (more)
Eros and Civilsization
Uses a combination of psychoanalysis and marxism to examine western culture. Includes a new preface by the Douglas Kellner. (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)
Lucid Dreaming: The Paradox of Consciousness During Sleep
Relates the experience of lucid dreaming (dreams in which a person becomes aware that they are dreaming) to other states of mind - such as out-of-body experiences - and examines how they can be... (more)
Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Eastern Thought
This book explores the convergence of psychoanalysis and Asian thought. It explores key theoretical issues. What role does paradox play in psychological transformations? How can the oriental emphasis... (more)
Art and Psyche: A Study in Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics
A study in psychoanalysis and aesthetics. 188 pages. (more)
Tragic Drama and the Family: Psychoanalytic Studies from Aeschylus to Beckett
Argues that the link between ancient and modern drama and psychoanalysis is the focus of each upon the family.
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women
A collection of case studies and essays which present new Freudian and post-Freudian psychoanalytic views on how women develop. Contributors look at women who had cold, dominant mothers, at women who... (more)