Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanlysis and Literature
Drawing on psychoanalytical approaches, this study contains discusions of the ways that the inner life is depicted in the Renaissance. It demonstrates how much of Renaissance literature represents... (more)
Reading Dubliners Again: A Lacanian Perspective
A psychoanalytic examination of James Joyces short stories. (more)
The Imaginary Institution of Society
A far-ranging discussion, dealing with the critique of marxism, the creative and imaginary character of language, the relations between action and social institutions, the nature of the unconscious,... (more)
Female Fetishism: A New Look
Tackles the question of female fetishism and documents women's engagement in this form of sexuality. Covering a wide range of fetishistic practices, it suggest that Freudian phallocentrism has... (more)
Self-Analysis in Literary Study: Exploring Hidden Agendas
Demonstrates how self-analysis can be a useful psychoanalytic approach to literary theory, and explores how the psyche affects intellectual discoveries in the realm of applied psychoanalysis.
Sartre and Psychoanalysis: An Existential Challenge to Clinical Metatheory
Explores the implications of Sartrean philosophy for the Freudian psychoanalytic tradition. The author shows that Sartre appreciated Freud's psychoanalytic achievements, but rebelled against the... (more)