Psychoanalysis

Winner, 2025 Book Prize of the American Psychoanalytic Association For decades, psychoanalysis has provided essential concepts and methodologies for critical theory and the humanities and social scie …

“Be the best you can be!” Practically from the moment we are born, we are taught to optimize our lives—to devote ourselves to increasing our productivity and efficiency, which, we are told, will make …

Though Francis Israel Regardie (1907-1985) is best known for his writings on the Western magical/mystical system known as the Golden Dawn, that is not how he made his living. He was a Doctor of Chiro …

Lebeau examines the long and uneven history of developments in modern art, science, and technology that brought pychoanalysis and the cinema together towards the end of the nineteenth century. She ex …

Revisits Julia Kristeva’s magnum opus on the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication to open up new paths of interdisciplinary inquiry. In her 1974 Revolution in Poetic Language, Julia Krist …

This book is concerned with the notion of the stranger—the foreigner, outsider, or alien in a country and society not their own—as well as the notion of strangeness within the self, a person’s deep s …

‘These days, who still has a soul?’ asks Julia Kristeva in this psychoanalytic exploration. Drawing on her many years of experience as a practicing psychoanalyst, Kristeva reveals to readers a new ki …

“Psychoanalysis for Normal People” is a vintage book on personal psychology and psychoanalysis by Geraldine Coster. Within it, Coster explains the basic principles of psychoanalysis and offers the re …

Arnold Richards’s psychoanalytic contributions follow the leitmotif of “integrative pluralism”: how to continue the dialogue between the contributors of disparate psychoanalytic schools of thought (i …