Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic andIinitiation in the life of an African Shaman
Maliodoma Patrice Some was born in a Dagara Village, however he was soon to be abducted to a Jesuit school, where he remained for the next fifteen years, being harshly indoctrinated into european... (more)
Image, Word and Self
In recent years much of the most creative work in the interpretation of Freud, as well as the application of psychoanalysis to the arts and social sciences, has taken place in Latin cultures. Here... (more)
The Mastery of Submission: Inventions of Masochism
Documents the evolution of the theory of masochism with scences in literature from Fanny Hill through Venus in Furs. Analysis of Freud's influential rereading of masochism precedes an exploration of... (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)
Melville, Shame, and the Evil Eye: A Psychoanalytic Reading
This study offers a complex analysis of the psychodynamic role of shame in Melvilles work, with detailed readings of Moby Dick, Pierre and Billy Budd. Its concrete application of the work of Kohut... (more)
Love and Hate in the Nursery and Beyond: Voices from the Unconscious
Eisenbud probes issues around the Oedipus complex - expressions of infantile horror for the breast, ambivalence toward the mother from dependence on her and terrors of abandonment. She then describes... (more)
Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in Modern Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: A study of Sartre, Binswanger, Lacan and Habermas
This study of subjectivity and intersubjectivity develops an account of the subject rooted in philosophy and psychoanalytic theory. It examines the relationship between different theories of... (more)
Shakespeare's hidden world: A study of his unconscious
This text focuses on the unconscious dimension of Shakespeare's art, examining the development of the structure of his plays. This development is seen as the reflection of a sustained regression into... (more)
Religion, society, and psychoanalysis: Readings in contemporary theory
A collection of essays which brings together contemporary scholarship on religion and psychoanalysis to offer a social analysis of the meaning of religion. The book presents Freud's views on religion... (more)
Religion and psychology in transition: Psychoanalysis, feminism and theology
A dialogue between contemporary psychoanalytic thinking and contemporary theology is presented in this text. Light is shed on the interaction of religion and psychology by viewing it from the... (more)
Never marry a girl with a dead father: Hysteria in the 19th century novel
The author reveals that the hysterical female character of the 19th-century novel is more than just a literary femme fatale, and contends, using readings from Balzac, Eliot and others, that these... (more)
The cultural dialectics of knowledge and desire
Offering a cognitive and psychoanalytic approach, this work demonstrates why culture is a problem that can never be solved. The author proposes a theory of cultural dialectics based on the concept of... (more)
Women, Love and Power
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Wittgenstein reads Freud: The myth of the unconscious
Did Freud present a scientific hypothesis concerning the unconscious? This question is of utmost importance to Lacanian analysts, and the author of this work contributes to the debate by turning to... (more)
The therapeutic narrative: Fictional relationships and the process of psychological change
This text explores a variety of novels that describe internal, personal change. It illustrates that there are parallels between the processes that lead to change in literary characters and the... (more)
Psychoanalysis, language, and the body of the text
Combining contemporary linguistics and psychoanalysis, this work focuses on how the body emerges in the novel. In particular, it looks at the role that language plays in integrating the body and the... (more)
The artist and the emotional world: Creativity and personality
Attempts to discern the role of personality in helping or hindering creative production. This book assesses the traits necessary to prepare someone for a creative career, as well the crucial... (more)
Valuing emotions
Combining philosophy, psychoanalysis and anthropology, this work explores the complexity and importance of man. It places emotions at the centre of human identity, life and value, and examines the... (more)
The sources of moral agency: Essays in moral psychology and Freudian theory
The essays in this collection are concerned with the psychology of moral agency. They focus on moral feelings and moral motivation, and seek to understand the operations and origins of these... (more)
Oedipus, Philosopher
Argues that if the logic of the Oedipus myth were subjected to analysis with the tools of anthropology, comparative mythology and narratology, it might invalidate the approach to the Oedipus Complex... (more)