Culture and Psychoanalysis Books
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Myth
This book surveys the history of psychoanalytic treatments of myths variously as symptoms of psychopathology, as cultural defense mechanisms, and as metaphoric expressions of ideas that may include... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Monotheism and Morality: The Sigmund Freud Museum Symposia 2009-2011
In this volume renowned experts in psychoanalysis reflect on the relationship between psychoanalysis and religion, in particular presenting various controversial interpretations of the question if... (more)
Shrink: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in America
"Psychology has stepped down from the university chair into the marketplace" was how the New York Times put it in 1926. Another commentator in 1929 was more biting. "Psychoanalysis", he said, "had,... (more)
Psychoanalysis in the Technoculture Era
By now the internet and other forms of virtual communication have been in place for at least twenty years. However, surprisingly little has been written about the use of new technologies in the... (more)
The Analyst's Ear and the Critic's Eye: Rethinking Psychoanalysis and Literature
The Analyst's Ear and the Critic's Eye is the first volume of literary criticism to be co-authored by a practicing psychoanalyst and a literary critic. The result of this unique collaboration is a... (more)
Understanding Non-Monogamies
Most social scientific work on intimate relationships has assumed a monogamous structure, or has considered anything other than monogamy only in the context of 'infidelity'. Yet, in recent years... (more)
The Fractured Self in Freud and German Philosophy
Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory has deeply affected how we think of ourselves, in emphasizing the limits of consciousness and the impact of irrational forces on our behavior. Philosophers have... (more)
Melodies of the Mind: Connections Between Psychoanalysis and Music
What can psychoanalysis learn from music? What can music learn from psychoanalysis? Can the analysis of music itself provide a primary source of psychological data? Drawing on Freud's concept of the... (more)
Art in Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Approach to Creativity and Analytic Practice
A revolution is brewing in psychoanalysis: after a century of struggle to define psychoanalysis as a science, the concept of psychoanalysis as an art is finding expression in an unconventional... (more)
The African American Experience: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Brings together the contributions of distinguished mental health professionals and scholars of humanities to offer a multifaceted perspective on the transgenerational trauma of slavery, the hardship... (more)
The Foundation of the Unconscious: Schelling, Freud and the Birth of the Modern Psyche
The unconscious, cornerstone of psychoanalysis, was a key twentieth-century concept and retains an enormous influence on psychological and cultural theory. Yet there is a surprising lack of... (more)
Football Delirium
In the tradition of Adam Phillips and Darian Leader, Chris Oakley shines his spotlight on the world of football and with wit and erudition looks at the question of why there is this worldwide... (more)
The Surface Effect: The Screen of Fantasy in Psychoanalysis
Even before we think, we use fantasy. Is fantasy the "mother of all media"? Does fantasy save me from myself? Are there fictions that are real? In The Surface Effect Andre Nusselder examines the... (more)
Melodies of the Mind: Connections Between Psychoanalysis and Music
What can psychoanalysis learn from music? What can music learn from psychoanalysis? Can the analysis of music itself provide a primary source of psychological data? Drawing on Freud's concept of the... (more)
Concept and Form: Interviews and Essays on Cahiers Pour L'analyse: Volume 2
Edited by a small group of students - including Alain Badiou, Jacques- Alain Miller and Francois Regnault - at the Ecole normale superieure in Paris, the Cahiers pour l'Analyse appeared in ten... (more)
Concept and Form: Selections from Cahiers Pour L'analyse: Volume 1
Edited by a small group of students - including Alain Badiou, Jacques- Alain Miller and Francois Regnault - at the Ecole normale superieure in Paris, the Cahiers pour l'Analyse appeared in ten... (more)
Television and Psychoanalysis: Psycho-Cultural Perspectives
Despite the prominence of television in our everyday lives, psychoanalytic approaches to its significance and function are notoriously few and far between. This volume takes up perspectives from... (more)
A Spirit that Impels: Play, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis
This volume brings together some of the papers presented by leading scholars, artists and psychoanalysts at an annual Creativity Seminar organised by the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center.... (more)
Uncertainties, Mysteries, Doubts: Romanticism and the Analytic Attitude
What is it to listen? How do we hear? How do we allow meanings to emerge between each other?
This book is about what Freud called freely or evenly suspended attention, a form of listening, a... (more)
Re(con)figuring Psychoanalysis: Critical Juxtapositions of the Philosophical, the Sociohistorical and the Political
Psychoanalysis, having been situated in the borders of natural and social sciences and humanities as well as at the crossroads of Romantic, Modern and Postmodern historical conditions, continues to... (more)
History and Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
The relationship between psychoanalysis and history is long-standing, productive and contentious. Psychoanalysis is a historical psychology, not just in its excavation of individual psychic... (more)
A Psychoanalytic Odyssey: Painted Guinea Pigs, Dreams, and Other Realities
Psychoanalytic process, as Eugene Mahon envisions it, is an odyssey through the mind of each of his analysands, the many children and adults he has treated over the forty years of his analytic... (more)
The Passionate Muse: Exploration of Emotion in Stories
Fiction is based on narratives in which characters act on their intentions and encounter vicissitudes. Readers enjoy entering into the lives of characters, coming to empathize with them as their... (more)
Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children's Literature
Children’s literature has spent decades on the psychiatrist’s couch, submitting to psychoanalysis by scores of scholars and popular writers. Freud in Oz suggests that psychoanalysts owe a significant... (more)
The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema
The Acoustic Mirror attempts to do for the sound-track what feminist film theory of the past decade has done for the image-track - to locate the points at which it is productive of sexual difference.... (more)
The God of the Left Hemisphere: Blake, Bolte Taylor and the Myth of Creation
The God of the Left Hemisphere explores the remarkable connections between the activities and functions of the human brain that writer William Blake termed 'Urizen' and the powerful complex of... (more)
Not the Future We Ordered: Peak Oil, Psychology, and the Myth of Progress
For well over half a century, since the first credible warnings of petroleum depletion were raised in the 1950s, contemporary industrial civilization has been caught in a remarkable paradox: a... (more)
Dancing with the Unconscious: The Art of Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalysis of Art
Combining theory and therapy - the clinic and the studio - Danielle Knafo's Dancing with the Unconscious extends the dialogue between psychoanalysis and art and shows how each discipline informs the... (more)
Canvas of Change: Analysis Through the Prism of Creativity
This book presents a detailed account of two analytic case studies examined through the particular viewpoint of creativity.
The first part of the book contains a review of the classical and... (more)
All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion
Unruly, unpredictable, love is a maddening deity. In this insightful and eloquent meditation on that many-splendored thing, Lisa Appignanesi draws on history, philosophy, psychology, literature,... (more)