Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading Otherwise
This thought-provoking volume contains readings of Shakespeare - including Lacan's study of Hamlet - Coleridge, Dante, as well as Freud, Lacan, Marx, Derrida and Plato. (more)
Young Man Luther: A Study in History and Psychoanalysis
In this psychobiography, Erik H. Erikson brings his insights on human development and the identity crisis to bear on the leading figure of the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther. 288 pages.
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)
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 of Judaism
Judaism is not only a religion. It is also a political project based on one main idea: the disappearance of borders, the unification of the earth and the establishment of a world of "peace". For... (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)
The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic: A story of science, sex and psychoanalysis
A brilliantly witty book about the intertwined lives of psychoanalyst Ernest Jones, surgeon Wilfred Trotter and the guru of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud.
Ernest Jones was Sigmund Freud's... (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)
Opera on the Couch: Music, Emotional Life, and Unconscious Aspects of Mind
In this widely ranging collection of essays, a group of contemporary psychoanalyst/authors turn their finely-honed listening skills and clinical experience to plumb the depths and illuminate themes... (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)
Everybody: A Book about Freedom
The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long... (more)
Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh
Ladakh, or 'Little Tibet', is a wildly beautiful desert land up in the Western Himalayas. It is a place of few resources and an extreme climate. Yet for more than a thousand years, it has been home... (more)
Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody's Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and... (more)
The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators
When it comes to historical violence and contemporary inequality, none of us are completely innocent. We may not be direct agents of harm, but we may still contribute to, inhabit, or benefit from... (more)
The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism
An eloquent and thought-provoking book on racism and prejudice by the Liverpool and England football legend John Barnes.
John Barnes spent the first dozen years of his life in Jamaica before... (more)
The Last Resistance
In The Last Resistance, Jacqueline Rose explores the power of writing to create and transform our political lives. In particular, she examines the role of literature in the Zionist imagination: here,... (more)
Frink and Freud
In 1909, while on a fundraising lecture tour in America, Sigmund Freud met Horace Frink, an early disciple of his theories of psychoanalysis, whose traumatic childhood and complicated personal life... (more)
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race
Walk into any racially mixed secondary school and you will see young people clustered in their own groups according to race. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy?... (more)
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics
George Lipsitz's classic book The Possessive Investment in Whiteness argues that public policy and private prejudice work together to create a possessive investment in whiteness that is responsible... (more)
The White Racial Frame: Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing
In this book sociologist Joe Feagin extends the systemic racism framework in previous Routledge books by developing an innovative concept, the white racial frame. Now more than four centuries old,... (more)