New Books in Psychoanalysis

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Great Books: Peter Brooks on Freud's "Civilizat...
You can't always get what you want, Freud noted in his 1930 short book, Civilization and its Discontents...
49 min
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D. Gilhooley and F. Toich, "Psychoanalysis, Int...
This book bears witness to what’s possible when the raw pain and heartbreak of life and death are worked with in Psychoanalysis...
54 min
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
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Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider, "Why Does Patr...
Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider use psychoanalysis and psychology as frameworks for understanding the vexingly enduring power of this social structure...
40 min
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
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Adrian Johnston, "A New German Idealism: Hegel,...
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...
115 min
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Rosine Jozef Perelberg, "Psychic Bisexuality: A...
"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...
51 min
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Jonathan Erickson, "Imagination in the Western ...
Imagination is one of the most important elements of being human, but is most often assumed we know what it is,..
86 min
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Babette Becker, "I Should Have Been Music" (Pag...
Becker recounts her experience as a patient in four different mental hospitals from 1957 to 1960...
64 min
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Vanessa Sinclair and Manya Steinkoler, "On Psyc...
For Lacan, the birth of the human subject is brought about by an encounter with language, the other, and the social link...
50 min
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
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Brett Kahr, "Bombs in the Consulting Room: Surv...
Kahr takes us on a tour de force through the rough fringes of clinical practice...
68 min
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Ian Parker, "Psychoanalysis, Clinic, and Contex...
Ian shares with us his encounter with British psychoanalysis’s “entangled world of personal-political relationships and rivalries"...
58 min
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John Launer, "Sex Versus Survival: The Life and...
Spielrein's life resembles a nodal point; she stood at the crossroads of extraordinary changes in world politics and psychoanalysis...
56 min
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Carlo Bonomi, "The Cut and the Building of Psyc...
Bonomi tackles what has often remained hidden both in the historical writing about psychoanalysis and in Freud's explicit account of castration...
54 min
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
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Benjamin Fong, "Death and Mastery: Psychoanalyt...
Fong revitalizes two oft’ maligned psychoanalytic concepts, the death drive and the drive to mastery...
65 min
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Robert P. Drozek, "Psychoanalysis as an Ethical...
The subject of ethics in psychoanalysis has long been relegated to the sidelines of clinical theory...
52 min
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Ira Helderman, "Prescribing the Dharma: Psychot...
Buddhism and psychotherapy have been in conversation since the days of Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and Erich Fromm...
60 min
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
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Amy Allen and Mari Ruti, "Critical Theory Betwe...
Part 2 of a two part interview with Allen and Ruti about Klein, Lacan, and Critical Theory...
59 min
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Valery Hazanov, "The Fear of Doing Nothing: Not...
"Psychotherapy, in my experience, feels nothing like a paper about psychotherapy."
56 min
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Amy Allen and Mari Ruti, "Critical Theory Betwe...
What happens when a Kleinian and Lacanian have a committed, generous, and accessible conversation about the commonalities and differences between their psychoanalytic perspectives?
69 min
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E. Danto and A. Steiner-Strauss, "Freud/Tiffany...
When we imagine Anna Freud, how does she appear to us?
58 min
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Stijn Vanheule, Derek Hook and Calum Neill, "Re...
Lacan published his Écrits in 1966, a compilation of his written work up to that middle period in his teaching...
57 min