When we are hurt, we hurt others—yet when they hurt us back, we wonder why...

Engaging with one’s patients is one of the most complicated aspects of being a psychoanalyst...

The authors move beyond simple critiques of abjection as a punitive form of social death, illustrating how it has become a contested mode of political and cultural capital—empowering for some but oppressive for others...

Whitehead ask Eisler "Is a frequent occurrence that men see The Christ; and are there occasions known when the visions are free from religiosity and at the same time full of life and power?”

Drawing on anthropology and psychoanalytic theory, Kaniel enhances our understanding of the connection between female transgression and redemption...

What do psychoanalysts do with bodies, and what do they do with them now?

Joel Weinberger and Valentina Stoycheva undertake to bring together the various lines of study concerning the unconscious in order to arrive at an integrated model of unconscious processes....

Luiz invites the reader into session switch her as she demonstrates “how two human beings interact with each other to effect profound change.”

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

"Conversations with Ferenczi" is about deep enduring friendships...

The areas of the Law and psychoanalysis overlap in interesting and compelling fashion...

In his classic essay on the fear of breakdown, Donald Winnicott famously conveys to a patient that the disaster powerfully feared has, in fact, already happened...

Chodorow advocates for a return to an interest in the social and social sciences in psychoanalytic thinking...

Psychoanalytic theory has developed very rapidly in recent years across many schools of thought. One of the most popular builds on the work of Wilfred Bion...

Johnston looks at three recent French theorists, Jacques Lacan, Alain Badiou and Quentin Meillasoux, arguing that all three ultimately fail to maintain a consistent atheism...

How are we to conceive of acts that suddenly expose the injustice of the current order?

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

Baraitser explores what it means to ‘take care’ of time in our current temporal predicament, where time appears radically suspended -- without the hope of a progressive future -- yet intensely felt...

Honoring his “intellectual commitments” Reis enlists theorists including Winnicott, de M’Uzan, Bollas, and Ogden, to help him render elegant clinical moments as opposed to grand narrative case studies...

Whooley’s book is no anti-psychiatric screed; instead, he reveals a field that has muddled through periodic reinventions and conflicting agendas of curiosity, compassion, and professional striving.

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

McGowan combines sophisticated discussion of matters like the limits of formal logic and the history of German Idealism with playful allusions to Star Trek characters and classic films like Casablanca and Bridge on the River Kwai...

Zalloua uses Žižekian philosophy to arrive at more complicated, but also more productive and emancipatory visions of racial oppression and emancipation might look like...

Fontelieu seeks to examine a collection of social and political traumas, both personal and collective...

You can't always get what you want, Freud noted in his 1930 short book, Civilization and its Discontents...