Johnston traces the development of Žižek's recent thought in detail, salvaging the key philosophical themes while also offering several criticisms and developments of his own...

"Psychic Bisexuality" clarifies and develops the Freudian conception according to which sexual identity is not reduced to the anatomical difference between the sexes, but is constructed as a psychic bisexuality that is inherent to all human beings...

Imagination is one of the most important elements of being human, but is most often assumed we know what it is,..

Becker recounts her experience as a patient in four different mental hospitals from 1957 to 1960...

For Lacan, the birth of the human subject is brought about by an encounter with language, the other, and the social link...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

Kahr takes us on a tour de force through the rough fringes of clinical practice...

Ian shares with us his encounter with British psychoanalysis’s “entangled world of personal-political relationships and rivalries"...

Spielrein's life resembles a nodal point; she stood at the crossroads of extraordinary changes in world politics and psychoanalysis...

Bonomi tackles what has often remained hidden both in the historical writing about psychoanalysis and in Freud's explicit account of castration...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

Fong revitalizes two oft’ maligned psychoanalytic concepts, the death drive and the drive to mastery...

The subject of ethics in psychoanalysis has long been relegated to the sidelines of clinical theory...

Buddhism and psychotherapy have been in conversation since the days of Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and Erich Fromm...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Part 2 of a two part interview with Allen and Ruti about Klein, Lacan, and Critical Theory...

"Psychotherapy, in my experience, feels nothing like a paper about psychotherapy."

What happens when a Kleinian and Lacanian have a committed, generous, and accessible conversation about the commonalities and differences between their psychoanalytic perspectives?

When we imagine Anna Freud, how does she appear to us?

Lacan published his Écrits in 1966, a compilation of his written work up to that middle period in his teaching...

Manny Ghent has a firm place in the relational/psychoanalytic lineage...

This is a book of transpositions, collecting together the author’s clinical vignettes, enigmatic objects, stray thoughts, projects, images, notes from readings, and musings...

Lawrence J. Brown offers a contemporary perspective on how the mind transforms, and gives meaning to, emotional experience that arises unconsciously in the here-and-now of the clinical hour...

Pinsky sets out to explore the field’s overall silence regarding the mortality of the analyst and his sexual transgressions in the consulting room...

Beginning with Freud’s theory of human nature and civilization, Carveth proceeds to review and critically evaluate a series of post-Freudian contributions to psychoanalytic thought.