Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: An Encounter Through Culture
This book examines the interface between anthropology and psychoanalysis, considering its historical context and investigating the distinctive reactions of British, French and American anthropology... (more)
Speculations after Freud: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy and Culture
This collection of essays considers the interrelationship of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and cultural studies, and questions the future of a discipline which has emerged from the intimate experience... (more)
The Spoils of Freedom: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Ideology after the Fall of Socialism
Presents the difficulties of post-socialist Eastern Europe as a symptom, in which the inherent contradictions of liberal democracy become visible. The author also explores how psychoanalytic theories... (more)
Psychoanalytic Sociology: Second Edition: Two Volumes
This two-volume work presents a selection of articles on the inter-relations between psychoanalysis and sociology. Recent developments are reviewed in a new introductory chapter. Topics include the... (more)
Transitional Objects and Potential Spaces: Literary Uses of D.W.Winnicott
Explores the impact of Winnicott's theories on psychoanalytic literary criticism, focussing on his unique view of object-relations.
Vision in context: Historical and contemporary perspectives on sight
This collection of essays brings together both historical studies and contemporary theoretical perspectives on vision. It seeks to trace the influence of vision on feminism, race, gender, sexual... (more)
Why War?: Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Return to Melanie Klein
Essays on war, the seduction theory, Margaret Thatcher, education, and a call for a radical re-reading of Melanie Klein's work.
Identity, culture and the postmodern world
This text introduces the work of a range of influential contemporary social theorists, including Lacan, Baudrillard, Foucault, Said, Harvey and Haug. It explains their analyses of concepts such as... (more)
Fire in the Dragon and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore
The only Freudian to have been originally trained in folklore and the first psychoanalytic anthropologist to carry out fieldwork, Geza Roheim (1891-1953) contributed substantially to the worldwide... (more)
Fanon: A critical reader
A critical reader, including key engagements with the thought of Fanon, aimed to encourage the extension of Fanon's ideas across the entire sphere of human studies.
Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Religion: Transference and Transcendence
Argues that religious experiences, doctrines and practices reflect the internalized interpersonal patterns that constitute the self. 144 pages. (more)
Inside out and outside in: An introduction to psychodynamic theories and pathologies in a bio-psycho-social context
Every human life is shaped by the interplay of forces from within and without. This book aims to update psychodynamic approaches by including the biological and social perspectives they often lack.... (more)
Time and Narrative: Volume 3
In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction, and theories of literature. This final volume, a comprehensive... (more)
Time and Narrative: Volume 2
In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction, and theories of literature. This final volume, a comprehensive... (more)
Time and Narrative: Volume 1
In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction, and theories of literature. This final volume, a comprehensive... (more)
Female impersonation
This work attempts a feminist and psychoanalytic investigation of the contemporary fascination with impersonation. Questions raised include: When - and for whom - is a performance of an identity a... (more)
The Creative Mystique
Through the life stories of women such as Camille Claudel, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Anne Sexton, Suzanne Farrell and others, the author offers insights into the nature of the creative... (more)
Freud and Philosophy: An Essay in Interpretation
If Paul Ricoeur is correct in seeing the various currents of contemporary philosophy all converging on the problem of a "grand philosophy of language," then the first sixty pages of this absorbing... (more)
The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond
Derrida's classic text on transmission, narrative and transference. (more)
The Anatomy of Prejudices
Surveying the world of prejudices since WWII, Young-Bruehl uncovers a secret history riddled with assumptions, generalisations and clichés. Drawing on theoretical and clinical literature, the author... (more)
Guattari reader
This volume provides a survey of Felix Guattari's more political side, and documents his interventions in particular political conflicts in contemporary Europe. It will appeal to all those working in... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Humanities
Written by artists and scholars with a psychoanalytic training, this seminal collection of essays on painting, sculpture, literature, history, anthropology and philosophy illustrates how... (more)
Lure of Dreams: Sigmund Freud and the construction of modernity
This book aims to demonstrate how Freud's writings - in particular, 'The Interpretation of Dreams' - contribute to the character of modernity, in terms of both content and their surrealistic form.
The Body and the City: Psychoanalysis, Space and Subjectivity
This book maps the key coordinates of meaning, identity, and power across the sites of the body and city. Exploring a wide range of critical thinking, particularly the work of Lebevre, Freud and... (more)
Subject and Agency in Psychoanalysis: Which is to be Master?
Psychoanalysis works with words - words spoken by a subject who asks that the analyst listens. This is the belief that underlies Moran's exploration of a central problem in psychoanalytic theory -... (more)
Ignatius of Loyola: The Psychology of a Saint
Written by a psychoanalyst who is also a Jesuit, the book looks behind the events of Ignatius' life and religious experiences.