New Books Network Podcast

Psychoanalysis January 21, 2023

Resurgence of Global Populism

A Psychoanalytic Study of Projective Identification, Blame-Shifting and the Corruption of Democracy

Karyne E. Messina

Hosted by Ashis Roy

Resurgence of Global Populism: A Psychoanalytic Study of Projective Identification, Blame-Shifting and the Corruption of Democracy (Routledge, 2022) provides a psychoanalytic perspective to the global implications of the populist movement …

Psychoanalysis January 18, 2023

Exigent Psychoanalysis

The Interventions of Jean Laplanche

Gila Ashtor

Hosted by Christopher Russell

In Exigent Psychoanalysis: The Interventions of Jean Laplanche (Routledge, 2021), Dr. Gila Ashtor “strives to draw out the discipline’s conceptual underpinnings by putting them in conversation with Laplanche’s comprehensive innovations.” Ashtor …

Psychoanalysis January 11, 2023

Playing at Work

Clinical Essays in a Contemporary Winnicottian Perspective on Technique

Vincenzo Bonaminio

Hosted by Tracy Morgan

Vincenzo Bonaminio, the Italian psychoanalyst and ambassador to the Winnicottian tradition offers us a clinical feast in his new publication, Playing at Work: Clinical Essays in a Contemporary Winnicottian Perspective on …

Medicine December 28, 2022

On Learning to Heal

or, What Medicine Doesn't Know

Ed Cohen

Hosted by Ari Barbalat

At thirteen, Ed Cohen was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease—a chronic, incurable condition that nearly killed him in his early twenties. At his diagnosis, his doctors told him that the best …

Psychoanalysis December 24, 2022

W. R. Bion’s Theories of Mind

A Contemporary Introduction

Annie Reiner

Hosted by Philip Lance

Annie Reiner’s introduction to Wilfred Bion’s theories of mind presents Bion’s intricate ideas in an accessible, original way without compromising their complexity. Reiner uses comparisons to painting, literature and philosophy …

Psychology December 22, 2022

A Study of Malignant Narcissism

Personal and Professional Insights

Richard Wood

Hosted by Karyne Messina

A Study of Malignant Narcissism: Personal and Professional Insights (Routledge, 2022) offers a unique insight into malignant narcissism, exploring both its personal and professional aspects and constructing a theoretical framework …

Psychology December 13, 2022

Sexuality Beyond Consent

Risk, Race, Traumatophilia

Avgi Saketopoulou

Hosted by Ari Barbalat

Arguing that we have become culturally obsessed with healing trauma, Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia (NYU Press, 2023) calls attention to what traumatized subjects do with their pain. The …

Psychology December 12, 2022

The Psychoanalyst's Aversion to Proof

Austin Ratner

Hosted by Karyne Messina

A clear and engaging call-to-arms to Freudians everywhere and a fresh diagnosis of the major problem confronting psychoanalysis today, Austin Ratner's book The Psychoanalyst's Aversion to Proof (Ipbooks, 2018) presents exciting new …

Writ Large November 18, 2022

On Sigmund Freud's "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality"

A Discussion with George Paul Meiu

George Paul Meiu

Hosted by Zachary Davis

Sigmund Freud is probably best known as the founder of psychoanalysis. In his clinical practice, he established theories on how the human psyche develops and behaves, and his 1905 text …

Psychoanalysis November 17, 2022

Hatred of Sex

Oliver Davis and Tim Dean

Hosted by Matthew Pieknik

Hatred of Sex (U Nebraska Press, 2022) links Jacques Rancière’s political philosophy of the constitutive disorder of democracy with Jean Laplanche’s identification of a fundamental perturbation at the heart of …

Psychology November 7, 2022

The Borderline Culture

Intensity, Jouissance, and Death

Željka Matijasević

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte

Borderline personality disorder is no longer a secret. Many people who are not therapists know what it is and see it as a fitting description for their personal experience. But …

Psychoanalysis October 17, 2022

Psychoanalysis, Catastrophe & Social Action

Robin McCoy Brooks

Hosted by Roy Barsness

Robin McCoy Brooks' book Psychoanalysis, Catastrophe, and Social Action (Routledge, 2021) uses psychoanalytic theory to explore how political subjectivity comes about within the context of global catastrophe, via the emergence of collective …

Psychoanalysis October 7, 2022

Creative Engagement in Psychoanalytic Practice

Henry Markman

Hosted by Roy Barsness

Creative Engagement in Psychoanalytic Practice (Routledge, 2021) fills the gaps in current clinical training and theory by highlighting the importance of the analyst's unique voice, creativity, and embodied awareness in authentically being …

Critical Theory September 27, 2022

The Labour of Enjoyment

Towards a Critique of Libidinal Economy

Samo Tomšič

Hosted by Reuben Niewenhuis

Enjoyment appears as purely private matter, but this is by far not the case. Ever since Aristotle the philosophical social critique is tormented by the question, whether the libidinal tendencies …

The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones September 27, 2022

The Future of Brainwashing

A Discussion with Daniel Pick

Daniel Pick

Hosted by Owen Bennett-Jones

In this podcast Owen Bennett-Jones and psychoanalyst Daniel Pick discuss brainwashing, thought control and group think. In the case of totalitarian political systems, do dissidents prove that brainwashing cannot be …

Psychoanalysis September 19, 2022

Psychoanalysis Under Occupation

Practicing Resistance in Palestine

Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi

Hosted by J. J. Mull

On this episode, J.J. Mull interviews co-authors Lara and Stephen Sheehi about their book, Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2021). As they discuss in the interview, the …

Psychoanalysis September 14, 2022

Psychoanalysis as a Subversive Phenomenon

Social Change, Virtue Ethics, and Analytic Theory

Amber M. Trotter

Hosted by Sebastian Thrul

“Perhaps psychoanalysis survives because it obstinately carries a torch of wild freedom and reverence for the unknowable in a world of rational epistemology and increasingly rigid sociopolitical control. Psychoanalysis does …

Writ Large September 6, 2022

On Sigmund Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents"

A Discussion with Elizabeth Lunbeck

Elizabeth Lunbeck

Hosted by Zachary Davis

In 1930, Sigmund Freud wrote Civilization and its Discontents and laid out his theory of civilization: civilization’s a problem, and it makes us unhappy. Freud felt humans were aggressive creatures …

Psychoanalysis August 29, 2022

Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Eastern Orthodox Christian Anthropology in Dialogue

Carl Waitz and Theresa Clement Tisdale

Hosted by Roy Barsness

Carl Waitz and Theresa Clement Tisdale offer to us a complex and scholarly text in their new book: Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Eastern Orthodox Christian Anthropology in Dialogue (Routledge, 2021). Psychoanalyst Marilyn …

Psychoanalysis August 22, 2022

Disorganisation & Sex

Jamieson Webster

Hosted by Cassandra Seltman

The first collection of essays from the author of the Life and Death of Psychoanalysis, Stay, Illusion! with Simon Critchley and Conversion Disorder, Disorganisation & Sex (Divided Publishing, 2022) is …