Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
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)
Beyond Sexuality:
Combining psychoanalytic emphasis on the unconscious with a respect for the variability of sexual identities, this work of queer theory makes the case for viewing erotic desire as fundamentally... (more)
Sexuation: SIC 3
A collection of essays examining sexual identity and sexual difference. They analyze various aspects and implications of the a-biological, a- constructivist process of "sexuation" by which the... (more)
Subjectivity: Theories of the self from Freud to Haraway
The concern with "I", with the self and subjectivity is now a main point of reference in Western societies. How did the concept come to be so important? The author explores how subjectivity developed... (more)
Learning to cope: Developing as a person in complex societies
Providing a theoretical framework for the development of young people in a stressful society, this book evaluates practical applications and signposts what works and what does not. 304 Theoretical... (more)
Discourse theory and political analysis: Identities, hegemonies and social change
Drawing inspiration from the works of those such as Jacques Derrida, Michael Foucault and Jacques Lacan, the contributors address particular questions using a common theoretical language. The book... (more)
The colonial unconscious: Race and culture in interwar France
France between the two World Wars was pervaded by representations of its own colonial powers, expressed forcefully in the human displays at the "expositions coloniales", in film and in literature.... (more)
Cognitive science and the unconscious:
Written by a group of researchers and clinicians, this text surveys a major strand in the fresh research to identify the essential characteristics and effects of the unconscious: the formulation and... (more)
Gothic radicalism: Literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis in the nineteenth century
Applying ideas drawn from contemporary critical theory this book historicises psychoanalysis through a new, and significant, theorisation of the Gothic. The central premise is that the 19th-century... (more)
On black men:
Mutilated, dying or dead, black men have a role to play in the psychic life of culture. There is a demand that black men perform a script. This study explores the legacy of that demand on the image... (more)
Pathologies of rational choice theory: A critique of applications in political science
A critical evaluation of the use of rational choice theory in political science. In this text, the authors assess this theory where it is believed to be most useful: the study of collective action,... (more)
Psychoanalysis and the scene of reading
Reading involves ideas about inner and outer, absence and boundaries, and the transmission of thoughts between one person or historical period and another. These ideas are the basis for our thought... (more)
Joyce, Derrida, Lacan and the trauma of history: Reading, narrative, and postcolonialism
In this work, the author examines the relationship between Joyce's postmodern textuality and the traumatic history of colonialism in Ireland. Joyce's influence on Lacanian psychoanalysis and... (more)
Language and the distortion of meaning:
Drawing on evidence from infant observation and linguistics as well as from information theory, de Gramont shows how prevailing theories of meaning (psychoanalysis and Piaget's cognitive psychology)... (more)
Camera obscura: Of ideology
In very different ways, Marx, Freud and Nietzsche all employed the metaphor of the camera obscura in their work. In this volume, the author offers an extended reflection on this metaphor asking... (more)
The technology of orgasm: Hysteria, the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction
From Hippocrates until the 1920s, massaging "hysterical" female patients to orgasm was a staple of medical practice among Western physicians. This text traces the vibrator from its beginning as a... (more)
Creativity and Madness: New Findings and Old Stereotypes
Investigates how two opposite conditions - outstanding creativity and psychosis - could co-exist in the same individual. Rothenberg concludes that such creativity is beyond the usual modes of logical... (more)
Reading dreams: The interpretation of dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare
This volume contains seven essays on the representation and interpretation of medieval and Renaissance dreams. Chaucer and Shakespeare are important reference points and theoretical approaches are... (more)
Paranoia within reason: A casebook on conspiracy as explanation
This text examines conspiracy theories and tackles paranoia as a style of debate within science, psychotherapy, and popular entertainment. A conspiracy theory emerges as a way to address the... (more)
Fantasm and fiction: On textual envisioning
This text analyzes the complex relationship between the fantasmal experience and the material text, reading a wide range of works, by people such as Coleridge, Rimbaud and Calvino, that treat this... (more)