Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
The emptiness of the image: psychoanalysis and sexual differences
This study argues that psychoanalytic theory retains an overwhelming explanatory strength in relation to questions of sexual difference and representation. It seeks to show how the issue of desire... (more)
Disorienting Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Reappraisals of Sexual Identities
Brings the methods and critiques of feminism, gay and lesbian scholarship and postmodernism to bear on psychoanalytic theories of sexuality. The text exposes the biases against gay men and lesbians... (more)
Delusions of Everyday Life
In this profound and eloquent book, an eminent psychoanalyst discusses the primitive and irrational delusions that are common to all of us. Drawing on the lives and works of such literary figures as... (more)
Genealogies of the Text Literature, psychoanalysis and politics in mo
Presents and conrasts Freud's and Kraepelin's interpretations of dream speech, and reassesses them in the light of modern linguistics. (more)
Fantasies of Love and Death in Life and Art: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Normal and Pathological
Addresses two fantasies concerning love and death: the passionate wish to die together with a loved one; and the desire to extend one's life and loves beyond death.
Freud, Race and Gender
A Jew in a violently anti-Semitic world, Sigmund Freud was forced to cope with racism even in the "serious" medical literature of the fin de sicle, which described Jews as inherently pathological and... (more)
The Case of Sigmund Freud: Medicine and Identity at the Fin de Siecle
Sander Gilman traces the "medicalization" of Jewishness in the science and medicine of turn-of-the-century Vienna, and the ways in which Jewish physicians responded to the effort to incorporate... (more)
The Repression of Psychoanalysis: Otto Fenichel and the Political Freudians
By examining the private correspondence of a circle of German psychoanalyst emigres that included Otto Fenichel, Annie Reich, and Edith Jacobson, Russell Jacoby recaptures the radical zeal of... (more)
Fear of Freedom
New edition in the 'Routledge Classics Series'. A psychoanalytical and historical work which asks whether the fear of freedom is the root of the 20th-century's predeliction for one or other kind of... (more)
The Rhetorical Voice of Psychoanalysis: Displacement of Evidence by Theory
By challenging psychoanalytic traditions and diminishing the power of rhetoric, this text aims to show how psychoanalysis can remain a creative enterprise with a scientific base (more)
The Meanings of the Menopause: Historical, Medical and Clinical Perspectives
A compilation on a major event in the life of every women, the editor has adopted a multidisciplinary mandate to illuminate menopause as both an event and a stage of life. The volume is divided into:... (more)
Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading Otherwise
This thought-provoking volume contains readings of Shakespeare - including Lacan's study of Hamlet - Coleridge, Dante, as well as Freud, Lacan, Marx, Derrida and Plato. (more)
Young Man Luther: A Study in History and Psychoanalysis
In this psychobiography, Erik H. Erikson brings his insights on human development and the identity crisis to bear on the leading figure of the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther. 288 pages.
Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Non-Violence
A look at the psychology behind Ghandi and his spiritual and political motivation of the Indian people.
Psychoanalysis in Contexts: Paths Between Theory and Modern Culture
Explores the changes in psychoanalytic theory over the last century, and the relationship between psychoanalysis and contemporary culture. Contributors include Jessica Benjamin, Cornelius... (more)
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial.
Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look... (more)
The Origin of the Gods: A Psychoanalytic Study of Greek Theogenic Myth
Looks at the Greek myth of origin and succession, particularly as stated in the 'Theogeny'. (more)
Interpretation of the Flesh: Freud and Femininity
An examination of the Freudian theory of female sexuality. (more)
A Psycho-Political Analysis of Netanyahu’s Israel: The Israeli Anxiety
This book weaves together philosophical, theological, psychoanalytical and political paradigms, providing both a historicization and a theorization of the Israeli experience and encompassing... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Poetic Testimony and the Trauma of the Holocaust
In this fascinating and innovative book, Rina Dudai looks at Holocaust trauma through the lens of poetic testimony: the act of writing poetry and prose to both relay and process traumatic... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the Patriarchal Tradition: Augustine to Milton
In cogently argued and brilliant readings of texts ranging from St. Augustine’s Confessions to Milton’s Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes,Psychoanalysis and the Patriarchal... (more)
How to be Real: A Survival Guide in Challenging Times
In How to Be Real, leading psychosocial thinker Stephen Frosh tackles one of our most urgent questions: how can we thrive in a world so troubling and confusing? Despite constant exhortations to be... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Society and Culture: Building Bridges
This book looks at the intersection of psychoanalytic thinking, society and culture, using examples drawn from literature, clinical practice and everyday life.
The book explores the various ways... (more)