Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
Enigmas: Essays on Sarah Kofman
The work of philosopher Sarah Kofman has become a focus for many scholars interested in contemporary French philosophy since her death in 1994. The essays in this collection evaluate her most... (more)
The body: An anthology
The concept of the body has emerged as one of the most important areas of recent philosophical inquiry. A collection of foundational twentieth century texts on this subject have been brought together... (more)
The Writing Cure: Psychoanalysis Composition and the Aims of Education
This work examines the intersection between, and proposes pedagogical uses of, psychoanalytic technique for writing instruction. It demonstrates how a psychoanalytic approach offers insights into the... (more)
Endless night:
The "endless night" that film theory and psychoanalysis share is the darkness they face in their quest for the logics of intelligibility. This text argues that film theory must be written with a... (more)
Sciences of the Flesh:
This work argues that the historical emergence of psychoanalysis depended on 19th-century scientific practices: laboratory experimentation, medical transmission of research findings along collegial... (more)
The cult of the Virgin Mary: Psychological origins
Tracing the devotion of the Virgin Mary to psychological and historical processes that began in the 5th century AD, this study presents a psychoanalytic interpretation of the most salient factors... (more)
Primitive passions: Men, women and the quest for ecstasy
Linking literature, art, psychology and cultural studies, this work investigates Westerners' attraction to "primitive" cultures. Torgovnick explores the stories of Jung, Dinesen, O'Keefe and Lawrence... (more)
The Burdens of Intimacy: Psychoanalysis and Victorian Masculinity
This original study answers questions such as 'Why does passion bewilder and torture so many Victorian protagonists ?' and 'Why do many literary characters experience moments of ecstasy before their... (more)
Bram Stoker: History, psychoanalysis and the Gothic
In this collection of 12 essays on the writings of Bram Stoker, the authors aim to show how he blended the Gothic with discourses on politics, sexuality, medicine, and national identity. The text... (more)
Object Lessons: Things to Do Things With Fetishism:
Object Lessons begins with the question, What can fetishism teach us? It investigates fetishism as a subject-object relation that informs us about basic strategies of defining, desiring and knowing... (more)
Hemingway's Fetishism: Psychoanalysis and the Mirror of Manhood:
The author demonstrates how fetishism was crucial to the construction and negotiation of identity and gender in both Hemingway's life and his fiction. 366 pages. (more)
The dialectical imagination: A history of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950
A history of the Frankfurt School and its impact during its early years in Germany and the United States. This edition includes a new preface which reflects on the continuing relevance of the work of... (more)
Inventing our selves: Psychology, power and personhood
This work proposes a radical reappraisal of the regime of the self, and the values of autonomy, identity, individuality, liberty, and choice which animate it. It argues that the "psy-" disciplines... (more)
The ascent of Babel: An exploration of language, mind, and understanding
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Samuel Beckett's hidden drives: Structural uses of depth psychology
Examines Beckett's almost obsessive concern with psychological sources, themes, and his use of Freudian and Jungian narrative structures. 432 pages.
The psychology of religion: Theoretical approaches
This previously published volume has been supplemented with new essays, demonstrating the diversity of approaches to the psychology of religion. These essays span the psychoanalytic tradition and its... (more)
Psychoanalysis, historiography, and feminist theory: The search for critical method
The author poses a feminist challenge to the hidden assumptions within conventional historiography by focusing on the troubled relationship between subjectivity and history. By applying Freud's... (more)
World in fragments: Writings on politics, society, psychoanalysis, and
Begins with a general introduction to the imaginary institution of society and the role of the psyche in racist thinking. The author shows how psychoanalysis, like politics, can contribute to the... (more)
Virginia Woolf: Feminism, creativity and the unconscious
A penetrating psychoanalytic reading of Virginia Woolf's novels from first to last. Underlying their elegant, imaginative, mysterious texture there is revealed a network of sibling rivalry,... (more)
The psychic life of power: Theories in subjection
Drawing upon Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault, and Althusser, this work aims to offer a theory of subject formation that illuminates as ambivalent the psychic effects of social power. The author... (more)
The motives for creative work: An inquiry
This study examines the motives for creative work. It assesses and summarises a variety of ideas from various versions of psychoanalysis and existentialism, in order to determine the explanations... (more)
Masochism: The art of power
Through a study of the representations of masochism in literature, psychopathology, philosophy and cultural theory, this text challenges fundamental assumptions about masculine power in the... (more)
Inventing the psychological: Toward a cultural history of emotional life in America
Asking if the popular tendency to define the self in psychological language is derived from (Freudian) "truths", or whether American culture invents and promotes psychological identities, this text... (more)