Psychoanalysis Books
Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan
Drawing on a wide range of writers from Sophocles to de Sade, the author shows that Kant and Lacan stake everything on a similar ethical enterprise. For both, ethics is a necessary impossibility -... (more)
Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity
In this book, Alison Stone develops a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Stone argues that in the West the self has often been understood in opposition to the maternal body, so that one must... (more)
Interpretation and Difference: The Strangeness of Care
A companion to Difference and Disavowal: The Trauma of Eros, which dealt with the psychoanalytic clinical problem of resistance to interpretation. The surprising generality of this resistance... (more)
Death and Delusion: A Freudian Analysis of Mortal Terror
This book argues that conventional interpretations of Freudian psychology have not accounted for the existence and complexity of death anxiety and its intrinsic relation to the creation of illusions... (more)
The Science of False Memory: An Integrative Approach
Weaves together the common threads of the four major topics that comprise the core of false memory research: theories of false memory, adult experimental psychology of false memory, false memory in... (more)
Recollecting Freud
An eyewitness account by one of Freud's earliest students. Sadger's recollections provide a window into the early days of the psychoanalytic movement and its internecine and ideological conflicts.... (more)
Resolution of Inner Conflict - An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Therapy:
A step-by-step analysis of the key points in the process of psychoanalytic therapy as well as important topics and issues that may arise during therapy. The guide is supported with references to... (more)
Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure?:
Why does tragedy give pleasure? Why do people who are neither wicked nor depraved enjoy watching plays about suffering or death? A. D. Nuttall's work offers answers to this perennial question. (more)
In Over Our Heads
This text proposes a theory of evolving ways of knowing that allows a view of adult development similar to that of child development: an open-ended process, born of the dynamic interaction of... (more)
The New Psychoanalysis
This volume examines the effects of the unconscious on emotional experience asking if our drives are friend or foe in the search for a satisfactory life. (more)
Society Must Be Defended
This volume is a full transcript of the lectures given by Foucault in 1975-76. The main theme of the lectures is the contention that war can be used to analyze power relations. The book is coloured... (more)
Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping her children transend the intense unpredictable and volatile relationship
An examination of the world of borderline mothers and children. Dr Lawson describes four basic profiles of the borderline mother: the Waif Mother, the Hermit Mother, the Queen Mother and the Witch.... (more)
Freud's Theory and Its Use in Literary and Cultural Studies:
This title aims to provide an accessible introduction to Freud's theory and its application to literary and cultural studies. (more)