Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science: A multiple code theory
The book firstly reviews the historical role of theory in psychoanalysis, and explores the factors separating cognitive science from psychoanalysis today. Building on this, the author presents a... (more)
Presence in the flesh: The body in medicine
The tendency of medicine to separate self and body, and the body's means of resistance, is the focus of this book. Disembodiment is the founding gesture of medicine - the author argues - so how can... (more)
Ultimate Intimacy: The Psychodynamics of Jewish Mysticism
With contributions and comments from a range of distinguished Biblical scholars, this work fulfills Mortimer Ostow's promise to unite psychoanalysis and the study of the Kabbalah. Ranging over both... (more)
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)
Law and the Unconscious: A Legendre Reader
Law and the Unconscious is the first work of the French legal philosopher Pierre Legendre to appear in English. Trained as a lawyer, a historian and a psychoanalyst, the work of Pierre Legendre has... (more)
Ethics and the Discovery of the Unconscious
Shows why the discovery of the unconscious by Nietzsche and Freud demands a reconceptualisation of 'moral agency' and 'responsibility' - and even of morality itself. Riker develops a new moral... (more)
Anger, Madness and the Daimonic
In this provocative book, the author determines where anger and rage originate and explores whether these powerful passions are purely negative, pathological and evil, or whether they can be... (more)
Performance anxieties: Staging psychoanalysis, staging race
Looks at the on-going debate concerning the value of psychoanalysis for feminist theory and politics - specifically concerning the social and psychical meanings of 'race'. The author indicates how... (more)
Other women: Lesbian / bisexual experience and psychoanalytic views of women
In reassessing traditional psychoanalysis, this text fromulates new theories for evaluating women's sexuality. The author argues that the dynamics of lesbian and bisexual relationships are "part" of... (more)
Listening Subjects: Music, Psychoanalysis, Culture
David Schwarz uses psychoanalytic techniques to probe the visceral experiences of music listeners. Using classical, popular, and avant-garde music as texts, Schwarz addresses intriguing questions:... (more)
Cultural pluralism and psychoanalysis: The Asian and American experience
This volume explores the creative dialogue in which psychoanalysts since Freud have engaged the modern Northern European / North American culture of individualism. The focus is on the the ways in... (more)
Oscar Wilde: A long and lovely suicide
A psychoanalytic biography of Oscar Wilde which explores the links between little-known childhood events and figures in his life and his psychological development to explain both Wilde's creativity... (more)
The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art
A study of the application of psychoanalysis to art, and vice versa. (more)
Shadow Lines: Austrian Literature from Freud to Kafka
Intellectual culture in early twentieth-century Austria reached levels of originality and excellence that have rarely been equalled before or since. Shadow Lines examines works by major novelists,... (more)
Women Beyond Freud: New Concepts of Feminine Psychology
A compilation of contemporary papers on female psychology. (more)
Art and psychoanalysis
A clearly written, informative, and stimulating contribution to the fields of art history and psychoanalysis. (more)
Psychoanalytic studies of religion: A critical assessment and annotated bibliography
This guide to the literature on psychoanalytic approaches to religion provides a wide range of critical assessments, and steers the reader towards works considered of lasting value. The book includes... (more)
Feminism and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Dictionary
A comprehensive overview of psychoanalytic theories and their relationship to feminist thought. (more)
Representing the woman: cinema and psychoanalysis
A study of the theory and politics of representation in narrative film. Questioning current accounts of cinema's pleasures for men and women, this text draws on the psychoanalytic theory of Freud and... (more)
Oedipus ubiquitous: The family complex in world folk literature
Whether or not the Oedipus complex is universal has been the subject of controversy ever since Freud made it the centre-piece of psychoanalytic theory. This text re-examines the debate over the... (more)
The Colors of Violence: Cultural Identities, Religion, and Conflict
For decades India has been the scene of outbursts of religious violence, thrusting many ordinary Hindus and Muslims into bloody conflict. This work analyzes the psychological roots of Hindu-Muslim... (more)
The Threshold of the visible world
Examining the topic of love, this work argues that it has a political role to play as well as a role within the psychic domain. It brings together Benjamin's notion of the aura with Brecht's notion... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Ethics
Reinterprets Freud's ideas on the various psychological issues relevant to morality and examines their ethical implications.
The religious and romantic origins of psychoanalysis: Individuation and integration in post-Freudian theory
This work traces the origins of contemporary psychoanalysis back to the foundations of Judaeo-Christian culture, and challenges the prevailing view that modern theories of the self mark a radical... (more)
The Psychoanalytic Mind: From Freud to Philosophy
This work discusses the view that there is no thought - and thus, no meaning - without language, and shows how this concurs with psychoanalytic theory and practice. It covers: the explanation of... (more)
Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literature and Cultural Theory
Uses post-structuralist discourse and Lacanian psychoanalysis to revise and re-articulate the politics of sexuality, discussing issues such as sexual identity, homophobia and feminism. Brings a... (more)
Eros and Civilsization
Uses a combination of psychoanalysis and marxism to examine western culture. Includes a new preface by the Douglas Kellner. (more)