Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
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)
Faulkner: The return of the repressed
Fowler provides a psychoanalytic treatment of Faulkner's work, employing a poststructuralist feminist methodology to assess the symbolic meanings of race and gender in "The Sound and the Fury", "As I... (more)
Imagined Human Beings: A psychologica approach to Character and Confli
Using Karen Horney's psychology, this book explores the inner conflicts of some the most famous characters in literature. Texts examined include Antigone, The Merchant of Venice, Jane Eyre, Wuthering... (more)
Piaget, philosophy and the human sciences
Piaget's theory of the development and nature of knowledge is discussed in the context of 20th-century European thought. His views are compared with those of Freud, Lacan, Heidegger, Foucault, and... (more)
Philosophy and non-philosophy since Merleau-Ponty
A collection of essays discussing contemporary writings and differing perspectives on the role of philosophy (and its relation to "non- philosophy") since the death of Merleau-Ponty. Covers the ideas... (more)
Imagining otherwise: Metapsychology and the analytic a posteriori
This work performs a psychoanalytic inversion of transcendental philosophy, and reads Kant's synthetic _a priori_ judgments in terms of analytic _a posteriori_ metapsychology. 188 pages.
Image, Word and Self
In recent years much of the most creative work in the interpretation of Freud, as well as the application of psychoanalysis to the arts and social sciences, has taken place in Latin cultures. Here... (more)