Psychanalyse

“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 …

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 …

‘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 …

In fall 1909, Dr. Sigmund Freud gave a series of five lectures at the 20th anniversary celebration of the opening of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Joined by other speakers, including …

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 …

We’re all stupid. To a greater or lesser extent, with a greater or lesser harmful impact on ourselves and society. ‘Never attribute to wickedness what can be adequately explained by stupidity.’ This …

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 …

It was while tracing back the abnormal to the normal state that Professor Freud found how faint the line of demarcation was between the normal and neurotic person, and that the psychopathologic mecha …