Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
Taboo: Sex, identity and erotic subjectivity in anthropological fieldwork
This text details the ethnographer and sexuality in anthropological fieldwork and considers the roles that sexuality plays in the production of knowledge and texts. Explored from differing... (more)
Hannah Arendt
Twenty-five years after her death, we are still coming to terms with the controversial figure of Hannah Arendt. Interlacing the life and work of this 20th century philosopher, Julia Kristeva provides... (more)
Madness and civilization
The influence of Michel Foucault, one of the great post-war philosophers, permeates contemporary philosophical thought. In this text, his first major work, he sets forth themes he picks up on in... (more)
Psychoanalysis and performance:
This volume maps out the relationship between psychoanalysis and performance (more)
Freud and Freudians on religion: A reader
This volume presents selections from Freud's writings on religion and from the work of five more recent contributors to the psychoanalytic study of religion: David Bakan, Erik H. Erikson, Heinz... (more)
The Historiography of Psychoanalysis
This work explores the vagaries of Freud's impact over the 20th century, including controversial issues relating Freud to histiography of psychoanalysis. Other topics covered include "Freud Studies",... (more)
Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis
This work provides an introductory cultural history of the relationship between psychoanalytic concepts and Shakespearean texts. This is played out in a variety of expected and unexpected contexts,... (more)
Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of maternal origin in Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet to The Tempest
An original reading of Shakespeare's plays illuminating his negotiations with mothers, present and absent, and tracing the genesis of Shakespearean tragedy and romance to a psychologized version of... (more)
Organisations, Anxiety and Defence: Towards a Psychoanalytic Social Psychology
Psychoanalysis has been applied to the understanding of social groups, organisations and cultures for a very long time, and there have been many different approaches. This book brings together the... (more)
Integration and Self-Healing: Affect, Trauma, Alexithymia
A work on psychic trauma and primitive affective (emotional) disturbance. The author uses the experience of his work with over 1000 Holocaust survivors in this effort to understand massive psychic... (more)
Pets and people: The psychology of pet ownership
In an examination of the relationship between pets and people, Barrie Gunter illustrates the many psychological benefits that animal companionship can bestow upon us: providing security for the... (more)
The social construction of what?:
Often lost in the debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what is being constructed. Ian Hacking looks at issues such as: madness; child abuse; and the ways in which... (more)
Spirituality and the occult: From the Renaissance to the Modern Age
This volume argues against the view that occult spiritualities are marginal to Western culture. It shows that the influence of the esoteric tradition - including Freudian and Jungian psychology - has... (more)
A queer chivalry: The homoerotic asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins was a practitioner of strict asceticism, and his commentators have often approved or disapproved of his rigorous self-discipline. This study uses Lacanian... (more)
Culture in psychology:
Presents work from within the developing framework of cultural psychology. Three sections explore the meanings of social categories, the interaction between written and visual representations and the... (more)
Literature, psychoanalysis and the new sciences of the mind:
An introduction to the theories of Freud and Jung and the strange linguistic rewriting of Freud by Jacques Lacan. It explores the variety of ways in which these writings have been applied to... (more)
Raskolnikov's rebirth:
Explains how Freud's theory of psychoanalysis helps clarify ethics and the nature of good and evil, arguing that its strength lies in its ability to reflect upon human life and the different modes of... (more)
Inside/outside Nietzsche: Psychoanalytic explorations
Friedrich Nietzsche is both subject and interlocutor in this study. The book mirrors the psychoanalytic situation, mediating between the interiority of Nietzsche's biography (and the philosophical... (more)
Therapeutic Dimensions of Autobiography in Creative Writing
Therapeutic Dimensions of Autobiography in Creative Writing brings together theory and practice from psychoanalysis, literary and cultural studies and the growing field of creative writing studics.... (more)
Contemporary psychoanalysis and masterworks of art and film:
This text sets out to demonstrate that a psychoanalytic point of view can enrich one's understanding and appreciation of works of art. It draws on late-1990s psychoanalytic views of the importance of... (more)
The Bounds of Reason: Habermas, Lyotard and Melanie Klein on Rationality
A highly original yet accessible study of the debate between modernity and postmodernity. Emilia Steuerman clearly explains the modernity/postmodernity dispute by examining the problem that has... (more)