Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
Coming Attractions: The Making of an X-Rated Video
Examines the psychological make-up of the participants in a hard porn video, including performers, writers, directors, producers and technicians. (more)
Lucid Dreaming: The Paradox of Consciousness During Sleep
Relates the experience of lucid dreaming (dreams in which a person becomes aware that they are dreaming) to other states of mind - such as out-of-body experiences - and examines how they can be... (more)
Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Eastern Thought
This book explores the convergence of psychoanalysis and Asian thought. It explores key theoretical issues. What role does paradox play in psychological transformations? How can the oriental emphasis... (more)
Art and Psyche: A Study in Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics
A study in psychoanalysis and aesthetics. 188 pages. (more)
Tragic Drama and the Family: Psychoanalytic Studies from Aeschylus to Beckett
Argues that the link between ancient and modern drama and psychoanalysis is the focus of each upon the family.
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women
A collection of case studies and essays which present new Freudian and post-Freudian psychoanalytic views on how women develop. Contributors look at women who had cold, dominant mothers, at women who... (more)
Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: An Encounter Through Culture
This book examines the interface between anthropology and psychoanalysis, considering its historical context and investigating the distinctive reactions of British, French and American anthropology... (more)
Speculations after Freud: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy and Culture
This collection of essays considers the interrelationship of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and cultural studies, and questions the future of a discipline which has emerged from the intimate experience... (more)
The Spoils of Freedom: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and Ideology after the Fall of Socialism
Presents the difficulties of post-socialist Eastern Europe as a symptom, in which the inherent contradictions of liberal democracy become visible. The author also explores how psychoanalytic theories... (more)
Psychoanalytic Sociology: Second Edition: Two Volumes
This two-volume work presents a selection of articles on the inter-relations between psychoanalysis and sociology. Recent developments are reviewed in a new introductory chapter. Topics include the... (more)
Transitional Objects and Potential Spaces: Literary Uses of D.W.Winnicott
Explores the impact of Winnicott's theories on psychoanalytic literary criticism, focussing on his unique view of object-relations.
Vision in context: Historical and contemporary perspectives on sight
This collection of essays brings together both historical studies and contemporary theoretical perspectives on vision. It seeks to trace the influence of vision on feminism, race, gender, sexual... (more)
Identity, culture and the postmodern world
This text introduces the work of a range of influential contemporary social theorists, including Lacan, Baudrillard, Foucault, Said, Harvey and Haug. It explains their analyses of concepts such as... (more)
Fire in the Dragon and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore
The only Freudian to have been originally trained in folklore and the first psychoanalytic anthropologist to carry out fieldwork, Geza Roheim (1891-1953) contributed substantially to the worldwide... (more)
Fanon: A critical reader
A critical reader, including key engagements with the thought of Fanon, aimed to encourage the extension of Fanon's ideas across the entire sphere of human studies.
Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Religion: Transference and Transcendence
Argues that religious experiences, doctrines and practices reflect the internalized interpersonal patterns that constitute the self. 144 pages. (more)
Inside out and outside in: An introduction to psychodynamic theories and pathologies in a bio-psycho-social context
Every human life is shaped by the interplay of forces from within and without. This book aims to update psychodynamic approaches by including the biological and social perspectives they often lack.... (more)
Time and Narrative: Volume 3
In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction, and theories of literature. This final volume, a comprehensive... (more)
Time and Narrative: Volume 2
In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction, and theories of literature. This final volume, a comprehensive... (more)
Time and Narrative: Volume 1
In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction, and theories of literature. This final volume, a comprehensive... (more)
Female impersonation
This work attempts a feminist and psychoanalytic investigation of the contemporary fascination with impersonation. Questions raised include: When - and for whom - is a performance of an identity a... (more)
The Creative Mystique
Through the life stories of women such as Camille Claudel, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Anne Sexton, Suzanne Farrell and others, the author offers insights into the nature of the creative... (more)
Freud and Philosophy: An Essay in Interpretation
If Paul Ricoeur is correct in seeing the various currents of contemporary philosophy all converging on the problem of a "grand philosophy of language," then the first sixty pages of this absorbing... (more)
The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination
Explores the difference between the sexes with reference to object-relations theory and Hegelian philosophy.
The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond
Derrida's classic text on transmission, narrative and transference. (more)
Guattari reader
This volume provides a survey of Felix Guattari's more political side, and documents his interventions in particular political conflicts in contemporary Europe. It will appeal to all those working in... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Humanities
Written by artists and scholars with a psychoanalytic training, this seminal collection of essays on painting, sculpture, literature, history, anthropology and philosophy illustrates how... (more)