Psychoanalysis Books
Currere and Psychoanalytic Guided Regression: Revisiting the Kent State Shootings
This book revisits the 1970 Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre, using a new approach of currere and psychoanalytic guided regression. Drawing on a... (more)
The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology
The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology uniquely provides a comprehensive overview of human subjectivity in the technological age and how psychoanalysis... (more)
What Is Sexual Difference?: Thinking with Irigaray
Luce Irigaray has written that sexual difference is one of the major philosophical issues, if not the issue, of our age. Spanning metaphysics, phenomenology, and psychoanalysis, her work examines how... (more)
The End of Analysis: The Dialectics of Symbolic and Real
This book interrogates the end of analysis in psychoanalytic thought from Freud to Lacan. It demonstrates that the notions of mourning, renunciation, liquidation of transference, and traversal of... (more)
Maternal Subjectivity: A Dissociated Self-State
In this book, Ellen Toronto reveals the dissociation of maternal subjectivity from human experience and provides a psychoanalytic exploration of the (non-)history of motherhood to make possible an... (more)
Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud
Hailed as the 'Guru of the New Left' and a leading figure of 1960s counterculture and liberation movements, the philosopher Herbert Marcuse is amongst the most renowned and controversial thinkers of... (more)
Rapprochement Between Fathers and Sons: Breakdowns, Reunions, Potentialities
Following Freud’s rather cold conception of fathers and a relative neglect of their role in psychoanalytic theory is a challenge to continue more recent efforts to develop a psychoanalytically... (more)
Sigmund Freud: A Contemporary Introduction
In this clear and concise volume, Susan Sugarman introduces the work of Sigmund Freud and keenly illustrates the impact his pioneering contributions have had on the way we think about ourselves and... (more)
Ferenczi's Confusion of Tongues Theory of Trauma: A Relational Neurobiological Perspective
Arnold W. Rachman and Clara Mucci provide a detailed examination of the significance of Sándor Ferenczi’s paradigm shifting theory of trauma, the Confusion of Tongues, and confirm its relevance for... (more)
A Political Psychoanalysis for the Anthropocene Age: The Fierce Urgency of Now
A Political Psychoanalysis for the Anthropocene Age presents an evaluation of the politics of climate change and considers how psychoanalysis can contribute to this discourse.
Presented in two... (more)
Theories and Practices of Psychoanalysis in Central Europe: Narrative Assemblages of Self Analysis, Life Writing, and Fiction
Theories and Practices of Psychoanalysis in Central Europe explores the close relationship between psychoanalysis, psycho-medical discourses, literature, and the visual arts of the late 1800s and... (more)
Wittgenstein's Folly: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Language Games
Wittgenstein’s Folly: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Language Games presents a dialogue between the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, the author Françoise Davoine, and Davoine’s patients with extreme... (more)
Witnessing and Psychoanalysis: As If It Never Happened
Witnessing and Psychoanalysis intertwines aspects of the history of psychoanalysis with the development of Philippe Réfabert’s own thinking and clinical practice.
Réfabert’s work invites... (more)
Freud, the Contemporary Super-ego, and Western Morality: An Essay on Psychopolitics
Freud, the Contemporary Super-ego, and Western Morality traces the origins of the relationship between the morality of the super-ego and the destructive impulse of the death drive in the liberal... (more)
Freud's Thinking: An Introduction
In this brief but comprehensive introduction to Freud's theories, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen provides a step-by-step overview of his ideas regarding the unconscious, the cure, sexuality, drives, and... (more)
Testimony and Witnessing in Psychoanalysis: A Literary and Philosophical Perspective
In this fascinating volume, Zipi Rosenberg Schipper approaches the fundamental topic of testimony, seeking to recognize its value as a distinct and vital function in psychoanalytic work, separate... (more)
How to Be Intimate with 15,000,000 Strangers: Musings on Media Psychoanalysis
An investigation into how the fields of mental health and media can work together more collaboratively. Brett Kahr is well-known and was previously Resident Psychotherapist at the B.B.C. Explores... (more)
Psychoanalysis for Intersectional Humanity: Sade Reloaded
Psychoanalysis for Intersectional Humanity considers both the vast realm of sexual diversities emerging under capitalism and outlines what a psychoanalytic clinic that considers these diversities... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Small Screen: The Year the Cinemas Closed
Psychoanalysis and the Small Screen examines the impact of cinema closures and the shift to small-screen consumption on our aesthetic and subjective desires during the Covid-19 pandemic from a... (more)
Schizostructuralism: Divisions in Structure, Surface, Temporality, Class
Each chapter represents the workings of a theory or concept. Relates system to class and key psychanalytic concepts. Contains diagrams to illustrate systems described. (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 5 Number 2
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 5 Number 1
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 4 Number 2
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 4 Number 1
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 3 Number 2
This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles... (more)
Sigmund Freud and Oskar Pfister on Religion: The Beginning of an Endless Dialogue
Sigmund Freud and Oskar Pfister on Religion examines the dialogue between psychoanalysis and religion through the encounters of two men: the "unfaithful Jew" who founded psychoanalysis, and a pastor... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Contemporary Search for Pleasure: The Turning of the Screw
This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the malaise of the contemporary individual by returning the economic point of view of Freudian thinking, the concept of satisfaction, libido, and... (more)
The Clinical Comprehension of Meaning: The Bion/Meltzer Vertex
In The Clinical Comprehension of Meaning, Carlos Tabbia addresses fundamental questions of psychoanalytic theory and technique, unfolding them for the reader in an elegant, passionate, and poetic... (more)
Textbook of Applied Psychoanalysis
The Textbook of Applied Psychoanalysis is a unique and original contribution to the field of psychoanalysis. Emphasizing and underscoring the need for interdisciplinary discourse in understanding the... (more)
Who's to Blame? Collective Guilt on Trial
Who’s to Blame? Collective Guilt on Trial presents a psychoanalytic exploration of blame and collective guilt in the aftermath of large-scale atrocities that cause widespread trauma and... (more)