Psychological Theory & Schools of Thought

This book examines the influence of Gnostic philosophy on Jungian psychology as indicated by Jung's essay, 'The Transcendent Function' (1916), and ...

Jacques Lacan continues to be subject to the most extravagant interpretations. Angelic to some, he is demonic to others. To recall Lacan's career...

Art and Mourning explores the relationship between creativity and the work of self-mourning in the lives of 20th century artists and thinkers. The ...

This innovative study of eight major works of fiction by D. H. Lawrence examines the dominant presence of what is here termed a marriage matrix. It...

In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the École de la Cause Freudiennes annual conference in ...

Sigmund Freud was no stranger to controversy. He shocked many with his revolutionary theories on human development, desires and sexuality, and tran...

Despite a resurgence of interest in Lacanian psychoanalysis, particularly in terms of the light it casts on capitalist ideology-as witnessed by t...

What is care? The Care Factory consists of six essays, each of which is an invitation to the reader to form an opinion on what care happens to be. ...

The Archaic takes as its major reference points C.G. Jung's classic essay, 'Archaic Man' (1930), and Ernesto Grassi's paper on 'Archaic Theories of...

The experience of loss is ubiquitous in human life, but its nature and impact have great variations. When loss is phase-specific, expected, and acc...