Psychoanalysis

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When History Returns

Turns to theories and cultural representations of psychosocial life to reflect on, and better understand, the challenges of learning in times of social strife.

Freud and the Problem of Sexuality

A fresh, provocative reading of Freud's theory of sexuality.

Psychoanalysis

By Jeffrey Berman
Subjects: Psychology

Assesses the contributions of six major psychoanalytic thinkers in the light of current academic and clinical trends in psychoanalysis.

Works like a Charm

Breaks the spell of economic thought by interrogating the widespread language and logic of “incentives” in public life from a Lacanian perspective.

Global Libidinal Economy

Claims unconscious desire plays a constitutive role in global political economy.

Unworkable

Explores the slow but inevitable implosion of our civilization by considering the correlation between capital, work, and ideology.

A Black Forest Walden

Compares life today in the German Black Forest with Thoreau's experiences at Walden Pond.

Fracture Feminism

Shows how feminist writing in British Romanticism developed alternatives to linear time.

The Aesthetic Clinic

Examines experimental art and literature by women alongside psychoanalysis and philosophy to develop a new understanding of sublimation and aesthetic experience.

Postcolonial Lack

Examines representations of surplus enjoyment in postcolonial literature and film to focus on self-other relations rather than difference.

Thinking Life with Luce Irigaray

A broad exploration of Irigaray’s philosophy of life and living.

Jouissance

A comprehensive discussion of an important but elusive Lacanian concept within the field of psychoanalysis, as well as its relevance for philosophy, literature, gender, and queer studies.

Psychoanalysis and Repetition

Addresses unconscious repetition, a concept that is crucial to an understanding of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Lacan and Romanticism

Draws from the work of Jacques Lacan to provide innovative readings of Romantic literature in the long nineteenth century.

Love and Violence

A critical, philosophical engagement of the psychological structures that propagate the continued oppression of women.

Inheritance in Psychoanalysis

Anthology of recent, cutting-edge work in psychoanalysis and philosophy on the concept of inheritance.

Childhood beyond Pathology

Brings psychoanalytic concepts to the notion of childhood development with a keen eye to discussions of social justice and human dignity.

Coming Too Late

Rethinks the significance of the son’s relationship to his father for Freud’s psychoanalytic theory.

Sabina Spielrein

Explores the life and work of psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein through a feminist and mytho-poetic lens.

Malady and Genius

Analyzes the theme of self-sacrifice in Puerto Rican literature through psychoanalytic theory.

Oscillations of Literary Theory

Revises key psychoanalytic concepts that influence interpretive practices in the humanities and formulates a new approach to reading fiction.

Cinematic Cuts

Explores the philosophical, literary, and psychoanalytic significance of film endings.

A Psychoanalyst in the Classroom

Offers a new view of pedagogical practices to psychoanalysts interested in pedagogy.

The Other Side of Pedagogy

Delineates Lacan’s theory of the four discourses as a practical framework through which faculty can reflect on where their students are, developmentally, and where they might go.

Apropos of Nothing

Everything you wanted to know about the Lacanian critique of deconstruction, but were afraid to ask the Coen Brothers.

Lacan's Ethics and Nietzsche's Critique of Platonism

Brings Lacan and Nietzsche together as part of a common effort to rethink the tradition of Western ethics.

Kristeva's Fiction

Psychoanalytic perspectives on Kristeva's fiction.

Antigone, in Her Unbearable Splendor

A study of Lacan’s engagement with the Western philosophical traditions of ethical and political thought in his seventh seminar and later work.

The Structures of Love

Reframes the terms of cultural analysis with a fresh take on transference theory in Freud and Lacan and a critical engagement with the philosophy of Alain Badiou.

Psychoanalysis at the Limit

Edited by Jon Mills
Subjects: Psychology

Examines the question of science, epistemology, and unconscious experience in psychoanalytic theory and practice.

The Unconcept

Explores the conceptualization of the Freudian uncanny in various late-twentieth-century theoretical and critical discourses (literary studies, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, art history, trauma studies, architecture, etc.).

Rereading Freud

Edited by Jon Mills
Subjects: Psychology

Continental philosophers examine Freud’s metapsychology.

Oedipus

First English translation of Nasio's groundbreaking work on the Oedipus complex.

Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Beyond of Language

Explores why American Romantic writers and contemporary continental thinkers turn to art when writing about ethics.

The Medusa Effect

Examines images of horror in Victorian fiction, criticism, and philosophy.

The American Optic

Brings together critical race theory and psychoanalysis to examine African American and other diasporic African cultural texts.

Final Acts

Analyzes contemporary memoirs of terminal illness from a psychoanalytic perspective.

Anachronism and Its Others

Traces the origins of contemporary analogies between queerness and blackness.

The Very Thought of Education

A startling reading of the educational enterprise through a psychoanalytic lens.

Eros and Ethics

A comprehensive examination of Lacan’s seminar on ethics.

Aesthetics of Anxiety

Places anxiety at the heart of the aesthetic experience.

Perpetual Adolescence

Explores the arrested development of American culture.

A World of Fragile Things

Psychoanalytic perspective on what Western philosophers from Socrates to Foucault have called “the art of living.”

Unspeakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Culture

Explores the radical political potential of close reading to make the case for a new and invigorated psychoanalytic cultural studies.

French Interpretations of Heidegger

A sustained philosophical engagement with significant and creative French interpreters of Heidegger.

Romantic Psychoanalysis

By Joel Faflak
Subjects: Literature

How the Romantics invented psychoanalysis in advance of Freud.

Lacan, Language, and Philosophy

Clinical and philosophical perspectives on key issues and debates in Lacanian psychoanalysis.

The Order of Joy

Provocative exploration of a new concept of “joy” within psychoanalytic and cultural studies.

The Comedy of Philosophy

Melds philosophical analysis with early cinematic history to develop a fresh theory of the notion of comedy.

Signifiers and Acts

Situates Lacan’s theory of the subject within contemporary philosophical debates over freedom and agency.

Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine

Contributors explore the significance of literature and psychoanalysis for medical education and practice.

Desire of the Analysts

Explores psychoanalytic approaches to cultural studies.

Sarah Kofman's Corpus

Draws connections between the life and writings of philosopher Sarah Kofman.

Sex, Paranoia, and Modern Masculinity

How modern conceptions of paranoia became associated with excessive or unregulated masculinity.

Living Attention

Interdisciplinary exploration of the scope and impact of Teresa Brennan’s lifework.

Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative

A comprehensive account of denial viewed not only psychoanalytically but also philosophically.

Jamaica Kincaid

Offers a new perspective on the psychological and affective dynamics of Jamaica Kincaid’s fiction and nonfiction.

Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning

A cross-cultural analysis of the work of Coetzee, Harris and Morrison, demonstrating that the fundamental task of postcolonial narrative is the work of mourning.

The Good Life

Explores how psychoanalysis can nurture and vitalize, rather than only focusing on affliction and neuroses.

Julia Kristeva

A comprehensive examination of Kristeva's work from the seventies to the nineties.

Lacan in the German-Speaking World

Addresses Lacan's reception in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, offering new perspectives for American readers.

Celluloid Couches, Cinematic Clients

Looks at how therapy and the "talking cure" have been portrayed in the movies.

The Logic of Sexuation

Challenges essentialist notions of gender through a detailed account of Lacan's theories of gender, sexuality, and sexual difference.

After-Education

Uses psychoanalytic theories of learning to explore contemporary issues in education.

French Fairy Tales

Offers an analysis of fourteen French fairy tales, from the medieval Romance of Mélusine to Jean Cocteau's film version of Beauty and the Beast, exploring their universal and eternal nature as well as their relevance to modern readers.

The Last Resistance

A fundamentally new examination of the controversies raging around psychoanalysis.

Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work with Them

Discusses extraordinary dreams and offers suggestions for interpreting and appreciating your own extraordinary dreams.

Paradise Farm

By Brenda Webster
Subjects: Psychology

Set in 1929, before the Crash, Paradise Farm probes the disintegration and rebirth of a wealthy Jewish family at a time when the New York art world was in ferment, women's roles were changing, the psychoanalytic movement was burgeoning--and Hitler's menace was recognized only by a prescient few.

Psychoanalyses / Feminisms

Probes the complementary yet contested relations between psychoanalysis and feminism, emphasizing the plural nature of each.

Nietzsche and Depth Psychology

Explores the psychological aspects of Nietzsche's thought and his influence on psychological thinkers such as Freud, Jung, and Adler.

The Ecstatic Imagination

By Dan Merkur
Subjects: Psychology

Presents the first comprehensive survey of the varieties of psychedelic experience since 1975.

Transforming Human Culture

Explains how human social evolution has led both to worthwhile achievements and moral horrors and provides perspective on today's planetary crisis by viewing it as a transition within the larger picture ...

The Rules of Insanity

By Carl Elliott
Subjects: Psychology

Addresses the question: Can we apply ordinary standards of responsibility to the mentally disordered offender?

Disseminating Lacan

Brings together parts of the Lacanian discourse that have remained isolated in their respective research areas and outlines the shape of Lacanian discourse, showing the relation of Lacan's thought to philosophy, science, literature and aesthetics, gender and sexuality, and psychoanalytic theory.

Lacan, Politics, Aesthetics

This is an anthology of psychoanalytic criticism applied to the wider field of cultural studies including class, gender, representation, ideology, and law.

The Ego and the Dynamic Ground

This book maps the course of human development from the earliest stages of ego development to the highest stages of ego transcendence.

Transpersonal Psychology in Psychoanalytic Perspective

In this book, Michael Washburn provides a psychoanalytic foundation for transpersonal psychology. Using psychoanalytic theory, Washburn explains how ego development both prepares for and creates obstacles ...

Philosophical Issues in the Psychology of C. G. Jung

By Marilyn Nagy
Subjects: Psychology

For the philosopher and psychologist this book offers the first thoroughly cross-disciplinary interpretation of Jung's psychology. Using the conceptual framework of traditional Western philosophy, Nagy ...

Jung's Quest for Wholeness

Here is a unique analysis of Carl Jung's thought from the perspective of the history of religions. Using a religious and historical approach, the author identifies the religious goal or ultimate concern ...

Psychosis and Sexual Identity

This book examines Freud's most famous case study with newly discovered material written by Schreber and photos of significant persons in Schreber's life.