Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
Between The World And Me
In the 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, the story of race and America has remained a brutally simple one, written on flesh: it is the story... (more)
The Fashion System
Fashion never ceases to interest psychologists, aestheticians and sociologists. Roland Barthes, however, examined fashion from a new point of view. Using descriptions from magazines, he uncovered a... (more)
Contempt and Pity: Social Policy and the Image of the Damaged Black Psyche 1880-1996
For over a century, the idea that African Americans are psychologically damaged has played an important role in discussions of race. In this provocative work, Daryl Michael Scott argues that damage... (more)
The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill
In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive approach to understanding how human beings perceive their surroundings. He argues that what we are used to calling cultural variation consists, in the... (more)
Why It's OK to Be a Slacker
"Stop slacking off!"
Your parents may have said this to you when you were deep into a video-gaming marathon. Or maybe your roommate said it to you when you were lounging on the couch scrolling... (more)
A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in our era has produced a crisis of faith in... (more)
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
From the Civil War to our combustible present, White Rage reframes the continuing conversation about race in America, chronicling the history of the powerful forces opposed to black progress. Since... (more)
Celebrating The Other: A Dialogic Account Of Human Nature
This book examines contemporary developments broadly associated with postmodernism, and with feminist critiques of psychology and other social science disciplines. It explores gender relations, the... (more)
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
'Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to speak' The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from... (more)
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
Tough times don't last. Tough people do.
In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. Here Taleb stands uncer... (more)
A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities
This companion is a cutting-edge primer to critical forms of the posthumanities and the feminist posthumanities, aimed at students and researchers who want to catch up with the recent theoretical... (more)
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World
Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship between blackness and animality in the history of Western science and philosophy, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World breaks open... (more)
On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It
The Rwandan genocide, the Holocaust, the lynching of African Americans, the colonial slave trade: these are horrific episodes of mass violence spawned from racism and hatred. We like to think that we... (more)
Lives of Houses
A group of notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists,... (more)
Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary EditionI Thought it Was Just Me (but it Isn'T): Telling the Truth About Perfectionism,
Inadequacy and Power
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. Paulo Freire's work has helped to empower countless people throughout the world and... (more)
Freud for Architects
Freud for Architects explains what Freud offers to the understanding of architectural creativity and architectural experience, with case examples from early modern architecture to the... (more)
On What Cannot Be Said: Apophatic Discourses in Philosophy, Religion, Literature, and the Arts. Volume 2. Modern and Contemporary Transformations
This anthology gathers together the important historical works on apophaticism and illustrates the diverse trajectories of apophatic discourse in ancient, modern, and postmodern times. (more)
On What Cannot Be Said: Apophatic Discourses in Philosophy, Religion, Literature, and the Arts. Volume 1. Classic Formulations: Classic Formulations v. 1
This anthology gathers together the important historical works on apophaticism and illustrates the diverse trajectories of apophatic discourse in ancient, modern, and postmodern times. (more)
The Sleuth and the Goddess: Hestia, Artemis, Athena and Aphrodite in Women's Detective Fiction
Rowland presents a detailed exploration of how the archetypes of ancient goddesses Hestia, Artemis, Athena and Aphrodite breathe into and shape female-authored detective fiction. Representing aspects... (more)
The Talking Cure
Set at the beginning of the 20th century, this play from the Oscar-winning writer of the screenplay "Dangerous Liaisons" explores the world of Jung and Freud. (more)
Freud and Nietzsche
Many of the leading Freudian analysts, including Jung, Adler, Reich and Rank, attempted to link the writings of Nietzsche with the clinical work of Freud. But what was Nietzsche to Freud - an... (more)
Dostoevsky: The author as psychoanalyst
Approaches Dostoevsky psychoanalytically, not as a patient to be analysed, but as a fellow psychoanalyst, someone whose life and fiction are intertwined in the process of literary self-exploration. (more)
Sexual Difference Between Psychoanalysis and Vitalism
Throughout the twentieth century, psychoanalysis and feminism were the practico-intellectual fields most systematic and subversive in demonstrating that humanity is sexually fissured. More recently,... (more)
Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of Phenomenology of Spirit
Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book... (more)