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The Aesthetic Clinic
(October 2020)
Feminine Sublimation in Contemporary Writing, Psychoanalysis, and Art
Fernanda Negrete - Author
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Examines experimental art and literature by women alongside psychoanalysis and philosophy to develop a new understanding of sublimation and aesthetic experience.
In The Aesthetic Clinic, Fernanda Negretebrings together contemporary women writers and artists well known for their formal experimentation—Louise Bourgeois, Sophie Calle, Lygia Clark, Marguerite Duras, Roni Horn, and Clarice Lispector—to argue that ...(Read More) |
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Jouissance
(July 2020)
A Lacanian Concept
Néstor A. Braunstein - Author
Silvia Rosman - Translation and introduction by
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A comprehensive discussion of an important but elusive Lacanian concept within the field of psychoanalysis, as well as its relevance for philosophy, literature, gender, and queer studies.
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 biopolitics, the point of inflection ...(Read More) |
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Thinking Life with Luce Irigaray
(April 2020)
Language, Origin, Art, Love
Gail M. Schwab - Editor
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A broad exploration of Irigaray’s philosophy of life and living.
Featuring a highly accessible essay from Irigaray herself, this volume explores her philosophy of life and living. Life-thinking, an important contemporary trend in philosophy and in women’s and gender studies, stands in contrast to philosophy’s traditional grounding in death, exemplified in the work of philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, and Sc...(Read More) |
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Postcolonial Lack
(March 2020)
Identity, Culture, Surplus
Gautam Basu Thakur - Author
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Examines representations of surplus enjoyment in postcolonial literature and film to focus on self-other relations rather than difference.
Postcolonial Lack reconvenes dialogue between Lacanian psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory in order to expand the range of cultural analyses of the former and make the latter theoretically relevant to the demands of contemporary narratives of othering, exclusion, and cultural appro...(Read More) |
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Psychoanalysis and Repetition
(July 2019)
Why Do We Keep Making the Same Mistakes?
Juan-David Nasio - Author
David Pettigrew - Translator
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Addresses unconscious repetition, a concept that is crucial to an understanding of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis.
In Psychoanalysis and Repetition, Juan-David Nasio, one of the leading contemporary Lacanian psychoanalysts in France, argues that unconscious repetition represents the core of psychoanalysis as well as no less than the fundamental constitution of the human being. Through repetition, the unconscious mem...(Read More) |
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Lacan and Romanticism
(April 2019)
Daniela Garofalo - Editor
David Sigler - Editor
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Draws from the work of Jacques Lacan to provide innovative readings of Romantic literature in the long nineteenth century.
Lacan and Romanticism uses the work of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan to deliver progressive readings of Romanticism by examining canonical Romantic authors such as William Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, John Keats, and Jane Austen, as well as lesser-known writers such as the graveyard poets and Sarah Scott. ...(Read More) |
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Love and Violence
(January 2019)
The Vexatious Factors of Civilization
Lea Melandri - Author
Antonio Calcagno - Translator
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A critical, philosophical engagement of the psychological structures that propagate the continued oppression of women.
In this book, the Italian feminist thinker Lea Melandri argues that systemic violence against women has deep psychoanalytic roots. Drawing inspiration from the work of Freud and the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Elvio Fachinelli, along with feminist practices of consciousness-raising, Melandri demonstrates how...(Read More) |
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Childhood beyond Pathology
(September 2018)
A Psychoanalytic Study of Development and Diagnosis
Lisa Farley - Author
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2019 Critics' Choice Book Award, presented by the American Educational Studies Association
Brings psychoanalytic concepts to the notion of childhood development with a keen eye to discussions of social justice and human dignity.
Childhood beyond Pathology offers an account of the ways that psychoanalytic concepts can inform ongoing challenges of representing development, belonging, and relationality...(Read More) |
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Inheritance in Psychoanalysis
(February 2018)
Joel Goldbach - Editor
James A. Godley - Editor
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Anthology of recent, cutting-edge work in psychoanalysis and philosophy on the concept of inheritance.
In contrast to the way inheritance is understood in scientific discourse and culture more broadly, inheritance in psychoanalysis is a paradox. Although it’s impossible, strictly speaking, for the unconscious to be inherited, this volume demonstrates how the concept of inheritance can occasion a rich reassessment and rein...(Read More) |
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Rx Hollywood
(January 2018)
Cinema and Therapy in the 1960s
Michael DeAngelis - Author
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How films of the 1960s and early 1970s framed therapeutic issues as problems of human communication, and individual psychological problems as social ones.
Rx Hollywood investigates how therapy surfaced in the themes, representations, and narrative strategies of a changing film industry. In the 1960s and early 1970s, American cinema was struggling to address adult audiences who were increasingly demanding films that confr...(Read More) |
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