Psychoanalysis

What makes a person Jewish? Why do some people feel they have physically inherited the memories of their ancestors? Is there any way to think about race without reducing it to racism or to physical d …

For Freud, dreams were the royal road to the unconscious: through the process of interpretation, the manifest and sometimes bewildering content of dreams can be traced back to the unconscious represe …

In The Future of an Illusion, Freud’s psychoanalysis of religion is the culmination of a lifelong thought pattern. Freud examines human nature and the role of religion in society, proclaiming that hu …

Five long essays that trace Jung’s developing interest in alchemy from 1929 onward. An introduction and supplement to his major works on the subject, illustrated with 42 patients’ drawings and painti …

The authoritative edition of Jung’s miscellaneous collected writings The Symbolic Life gathers some 160 of Jung’s writings that span sixty years and reflect his inquiring mind, numerous interests, an …

Addressing the art and science of psychodynamic treatment, Nancy Mc Williams distills the essential principles of clinical practice, including effective listening and talking; transference and counte …

‘As a doctor, I make every effort to strengthen the belief in immortality, especially with older patients when such questions come threateningly close. For, seen in correct psychological perspective, …

Psychoanalytic perspectives on Kristeva’s fiction. With published work spanning more than forty years, Julia Kristeva’s influence in psychoanalysis and literary theory is difficult to overstate. In a …

This is a book about hope. Part 1 is a compact but necessarily limited attempt to describe the actual structure and concrete forms of hope and hopelessness; Part 2 is an exploration of a psychology o …

Over the last few decades, vibrant debates regarding post-secularism have found inspiration and provocation in the works of Sigmund Freud. A new interest in the interconnection of psychoanalysis, rel …