Psychoanalytical Theory (Freudian Psychology)

The insights here are of such depth, and contain such beauty in them, that time and again the reader must pause for breath. At last Rilke has met a...

A long-awaited reevaluation of Chaucer through the lens of sacrifice by a major figure in medieval studiesHistoricism and its discontents have long...

Friedrich Nietzsche is both subject and interlocutor in this innovative study. The book mirrors the psychoanalytic situation, mediating between the...

"Psychoanalysis is dead!" Again and again this obituary is pronounced, with ever-increasing conviction in newspapers and scholarly journals alike. ...

George Eliot has been widely praised both for the richness of her prose and the universality of her themes. In this compelling study, Peggy Fitzhug...

A revolutionary new approach to the place of Nazi ideology in twentieth-century thoughtPsychoanalysis was a symptom of everything the Nazis reviled...

Perhaps nothing is more revealing about a person than what he or she reads. In 1938, when Freud was forced by the Nazis to flee Vienna, he brought ...

Among the numerous introductions to Lacan published to date in English, Philippe Julien's work is certainly outstanding. Beyond its conceptual clar...

Writing and Madness is Shoshana Felman's most influential work of literary theory and criticism. Exploring the relations between literature, philos...

C. Fred Alford interviewed working people, prisoners, and college students in order to discover how people experience evil—in themselves, in others...

George Eliot has been widely praised both for the richness of her prose and the universality of her themes. In this compelling study, Peggy Fitzhug...

What makes one reader look for issues of social conformity in Kafka's Metamorphosis while another concentrates on the relationship between Gregor S...

In the early 1970s, Cioffi demonstrated that Freud falsified the account of his discovery of the Oedipus complex - an account that had gone unquest...

At once a memoir and a personal version of the author’s highly influential Language of Psychoanalysis, this work by one of the world’s leading prop...

This unique volume brings together contributions from experts who are able to introduce both the neophyte and the scholar to important faucets of F...

Appreciation of the beauty and complexity of the human mind when perceiving an ambiguous stimulus led Dr. Hermann Rorschach to develop his scientif...

The pantheon of renowned melancholics—from Shakespeare's Hamlet to Walter Benjamin—includes no women, an absence that in Juliana Schiesari's view p...

The influence of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan has extended into nearly every field of the humanities and social sciences—from literature ...

'What does a woman want?'-the question Freud famously formulated in a letter to Marie Bonaparte-is a quintessentially male question that arises fro...

Freud and the Politics of Psychoanalysis is a sympathetic critique of Freud's work, tracing its political content and context from his early writin...

Sigmund Freud had broad ambitions about what psychoanalysis could add to human thought. But Freutfs own writings have rarely been assessed within t...

Jung: A Feminist Revision explores the relationship between feminist theory and Jungian studies. It combines an original student-friendly introduct...

This new book is a lively and original study of psychoanalysis and its relations to the arts.

This book presents the radically new theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan. Against the tide of post-structuralist thinkers who...