Psychoanalysis

“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 …

Karen Horney presents her new take on the work of Sigmund Freud. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensiv …

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 …

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 …

‘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 …

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 …

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 …

While contemporary studies have paid renewed attention to the psychoanalytic theory of sexuality and routinely reference Sigmund Freud, they seldom engage directly with his work. Freud and the Proble …

Whether inscribed within the context of capitalist or neoliberal logic and its imperative to ‘enjoy, ‘ as a critique of all forms of heteronormativity, a liberating force in a positive reading of bio …