Psychoanalysis
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.
Being, Time, Bios
A psychoanalytic theory of biopolitics.
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.
A Psychoanalyst on the Couch
An interview with Juan-David Nasio.
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
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
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.
Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva
Considers the social and political significance of Kristeva’s oeuvre.
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.”