Psychoanalytical Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. Jean-Paul Sartre

   By Christine Daigle

   Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers

   A critical figure in twentieth-century literature and philosophy, Jean-Paul Sartre changed the course of critical thought, and claimed a new, important role for the intellectual. Christine Daigle sets Sartre’s thought in context, and considers a number of key ideas in detail, charting their impact...

   Published October 15th 2009 by Routledge
2. Sigmund Freud

   2nd Edition

   By Pamela Thurschwell

   Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers

   The work of Sigmund Freud has penetrated almost every area of literary theory and cultural studies, as well as contemporary culture. Pamela Thurschwell explains and contextualises psychoanalytic theory and its meaning for modern thinking. This updated second edition explores developments and...

   Published April 26th 2009 by Routledge
3. Enjoy Your Symptom!

   Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out

   By Slavoj Zizek

   Series: Routledge Classics

   The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst’s couch. Zizek introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan through the medium of American film, taking his examples from over 100 years of cinema, from Charlie...

   Published October 29th 2007 by Routledge
4. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis

   The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book VII

   By Jacques Lacan

   Series: Routledge Classics

   A charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his work has revolutionized linguistics, philosophy, literature, psychology, cultural and media studies. He gained his reputation as a lecturer, disseminating his ideas to audiences that...

   Published September 2nd 2007 by Routledge
5. L. Thinking about Reading

   Edited by Terrence Hawkes

   These four volumes are part of the forty-one volume set New Accents. First launched in 1977, the New Accents series rapidly changed the face of literary studies. Its clear and concise volumes brought the latest in literary theory to students and academics and paved the way for undergraduate...

   Published February 27th 2007 by Routledge
6. Creating Bodies

   Eating Disorders as Self-Destructive Survival

   By Katie Gentile

   Series: Relational Perspectives Book Series

   Amid the welter of clinical studies, memoirs, and other death-defying tales of eating disorders, we remain unclear about the relationships among trauma, anorexia, and bulimia, and about the psychological pathways to recovery. Creating Bodies offers the gripping story of healing and...

   Published August 15th 2006 by Routledge
7. Jacques Lacan

   By Sean Homer

   Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers

   Jacques Lacan is one of the most challenging and controversial of contemporary thinkers, as well as the most influential psychoanalyst since Freud. Lacanian theory has reached far beyond the consulting room to engage with such diverse disciplines as literature, film, gender and social theory. This...

   Published November 10th 2004 by Routledge
8. The Work of Psychic Figurability

   Mental States Without Representation

   By Sára Botella, César Botella

   Series: The New Library of Psychoanalysis

   The majority of psychoanalysts today agree that the analytic setting faces them daily with certain aspects of their work for which the answers provided by an analytic theory centred exclusively on the notion of representation prove insufficient. On the basis of their experience of analytic practice...

   Published October 27th 2004 by Routledge
9. Stuart Hall

   By James Procter

   Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers

   James Procter's introduction places Hall's work within its historical contexts, providing a clear guide to his key ideas and influences, as well as to his critics and his intellectual legacy. Stuart Hall has been pivotal to the development of cultural studies during the past forty years. Whether as...

   Published March 17th 2004 by Routledge
10. Psychoanalytic Criticism

    Published October 16th 2002 by Routledge