Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
Sexual Difference Between Psychoanalysis and Vitalism
Throughout the twentieth century, psychoanalysis and feminism were the practico-intellectual fields most systematic and subversive in demonstrating that humanity is sexually fissured. More recently,... (more)
Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of Phenomenology of Spirit
Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book... (more)
On Female Body Experience: Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays
Questions of embodiment have become central to feminist theory, challenging the prevailing notion of disembodied reason in epistemology and criticizing modern political theory for separating human... (more)
Antigone's Claim
This work argues that Antigone, the renowned insurgent from Sophocles's "Oedipus" and feminist icon, represents a form of sexual and feminist legacy that is fraught with risk. Judith Butler suggests... (more)
Contemporary French Feminism:
Have we entered a historical moment of 'post-feminism'? This volume presents a timely and convincing 'no'. These essays demonstrate that there is a new generation of French women who take up... (more)
Why Feminism?: Gender, Psychology, Politics
This work explores the place of feminism in contemporary culture. For some, feminism is the favourite scapegoat for multiple social ills; for others, the greatest success story of the closing century. (more)
Psychoanalysis, Identity, and Ideology: Critical Essays on the Israel/Palestine Case
This collection embodies the tradition of critical thinking applied to ideologies and identities, Zionism in particular, through a non-exclusive prism of psychoanalytic traditions. (more)
Nonsense Against Sorrow: A Phenomenological Study of Lewis Carroll's Alice Books
What kind of a man was Lewis Carroll, and what motivated him to write the "Alice" books? David Holbrook draws on Carroll's correspondence, as well as the work of 20th-century psychoanalysts to step... (more)
Stranger on the earth: A psychological biography of Vincent van Gogh
This work provides an in-depth study of the relationship between van Gogh's psychological development and his art. It draws on the tremendous wealth of information available about van Gogh to explore... (more)
The Emperor's embrace: Reflections on animal families and fatherhood
A showcase of the extraordinary behaviour of outstanding fathers in the animal kingdom. From the King Penguin, who incubates the eggs of his young to the sea horse, the only male animal that gives... (more)
Infant figures:
This text juxtaposes philosophical and psychoanalytic speculation with literary and artistic commentary in order to approach a set of questions concerning the human relation to language. The text... (more)
Subjectivity: Theories of the self from Freud to Haraway
The concern with the self, with our subjectivity, is the main point of reference in modern Western societies. This work explores how notions of subjectivity have developed over the 20th century,... (more)
Passions and convictions in matters political: Explorations in moral psychology
This text attempts to preserve the Frankfurt School account of fascism, of the 1950s, whilst integrating them into a psychoanalytical model of politics which draws on Kleinian thought. It also... (more)
Emotional life and the politics of welfare:
Social policy and political theory are based upon rationalist models of the human subject. Drawing particularly upon contemporary Kleinian and feminist political theory the author explores the... (more)
Freud and the legacy of Moses
In this text, the author argues that a close reading of Moses and Monotheism reveals an underlying coherence in which Freud seeks to specify the distinctive character and contribution of the Jewish... (more)