Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Non-Violence
A look at the psychology behind Ghandi and his spiritual and political motivation of the Indian people.
Psychoanalysis in Contexts: Paths Between Theory and Modern Culture
Explores the changes in psychoanalytic theory over the last century, and the relationship between psychoanalysis and contemporary culture. Contributors include Jessica Benjamin, Cornelius... (more)
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial.
Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look... (more)
From Dependency to Autonomy: Studies in Organisation and Change
The author draws on the experiences of three decades of working as an organizational consultant to various sorts of institutions, employing approaches drawn from psychoanalysis, systems theory, and... (more)
The Origin of the Gods: A Psychoanalytic Study of Greek Theogenic Myth
Looks at the Greek myth of origin and succession, particularly as stated in the 'Theogeny'. (more)
Interpretation of the Flesh: Freud and Femininity
An examination of the Freudian theory of female sexuality. (more)
Psychoanalysis, Poetic Testimony and the Trauma of the Holocaust
In this fascinating and innovative book, Rina Dudai looks at Holocaust trauma through the lens of poetic testimony: the act of writing poetry and prose to both relay and process traumatic... (more)
What Is Philosophy for?
Why should anybody take an interest in philosophy? Is it just another detailed study like metallurgy? Or is it similar to history, literature and even religion: a study meant to do some personal good... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Patriarchal Tradition: Augustine to Milton
In cogently argued and brilliant readings of texts ranging from St. Augustine’s Confessions to Milton’s Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes,Psychoanalysis and the Patriarchal... (more)
God Is Undead: Psychoanalysis for Unbelievers
The undead are neither alive nor dead. They are animate yet non-living. In God Is Undead, Lorenzo Chiesa and Adrian Johnston contend that true unbelief today sees the divine precisely as exemplifying... (more)
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our... (more)
Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature
Julia Kristeva’s Time and Sense is a major reassessment of Marcel Proust and In Search of Lost Time. Not only a meditation on Proust, it is also a commentary on how the experience of literature is... (more)
The Samurai: A Novel
Julia Kristeva’s dazzling fictional debut is an intellectual adventure, full of vitality, sensuousness, and sustained lyricism. Reminiscent of The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir’s 1954 masterpiece,... (more)
Revolution in Poetic Language
In Revolution in Poetic Language, Julia Kristeva explicates her foundational distinction between the semiotic and the symbolic and explores their interrelationships. Linking the psychosomatic to the... (more)
Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death: or Language Haunted by Sex
Julia Kristeva has been both attracted and repelled by Dostoyevsky since her youth. In this extraordinary book, by turns poetic and intensely personal, she brings her unique critical sensibility to... (more)
Transferences: The Aesthetics and Poetics of the Therapeutic Relationship
Why are psychoanalysts fascinated with literature and other arts? And why do so many novels, plays, films, and television series feature therapy sessions? Transferences investigates the... (more)
The Writing Cure
In The Writing Cure, Emma Lieber tells the story of her decade-long analysis, and her becoming a psychoanalyst, by tracing dreams, scenes, and signifiers that emerged from her analysis while also... (more)
Our Two-Track Minds: Rehabilitating Freud on Culture
While many of Freud's original formulations have required either revision or rejection and replacement with newer models, his cultural books, such as Civilization and Its Discontents and Totem and... (more)
On Dangerous Ground: Freud’s Visual Cultures of the Unconscious
In the final years of the 19th century, Sigmund Freud began to construct evidence for the workings of an “unconscious.” On Dangerous Ground offers an innovative assessment of the complex role that... (more)
Norman N. Holland: The Dean of American Psychoanalytic Literary Critics
Norman Holland was unquestionably the leading 20th-century American psychoanalytic literary critic. Long known as the Dean of American psychoanalytic literary critics, Holland produced an enormous... (more)
Critical Realism for Psychologists
This is the first dedicated text to explain and explore the utility of critical realism for psychologists, offering it as a helpful middle ground between positivism and postmodernism.
By... (more)
The Story of Sidonie C.: Freud's famous case of 'female homosexuality'
Now finally available in English, this biography of Margarethe Csonka-Trautenegg (1900-1999) offers a fully-rounded picture of a willful and psychologically complex aesthete. As Freud's... (more)
Queer Tolstoy: A Psychobiography
Queer Tolstoy is a multidimensional work combining psychoanalysis, political history, LGBTQ+ studies, sexology, ethics, and theology to explore the life and art of Count Lev Nikolaevich... (more)
Linguistics and Psychoanalysis: A New Perspective on Language Processing and Evolution
This groundbreaking, provocative book presents an overview of research at the disciplinary intersection of psychoanalysis and linguistics.
Understanding that linguistic activity, to a great... (more)
Enduring Time
The ways in which we imagine and experience time are changing dramatically. Climate change, unending violent conflict, fraying material infrastructures, permanent debt and widening social... (more)
Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor
In Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor, Ankhi Mukherjee offers a magisterial work of literary and cultural criticism which examines the relationship between global cities, poverty,... (more)
Fifty Key Thinkers in Psychology
The new edition of Fifty Key Thinkers in Psychology introduces the life, thought, work and impact of some of the most influential figures who have shaped and developed modern psychology, considering... (more)
Integration and Difference: Constructing a Mythical Dialectic
This groundbreaking work synthesizes concepts from thirteen crucial philosophers and psychologists, relating how the ancient problem of opposites has been opening to an integration which not only... (more)