New Books in Psychoanalysis
Jacob Johanssen, “Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture: Audiences, Social Media, and Big Data” (Routledge, 2019)
Jacob Johanssen
Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture
Audiences, Social Media, and Big Data
Routledge, 2019

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network February 28, 2019 Dave O'Brien

How can insights from psychoanalysis help us understand digital culture? In Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture: Audiences, Social Media, and Big Data (Routledge, 2019), Jacob Johanssen, a senior lecturer in the University of Westminster’s School of Media and Communication, draws on the work of Freud and Anzieu to explore both traditional and new forms... Read More
Shanna de la Torre, “Sex for Structuralists: The Non-Oedipal Logics of Femininity and Psychosis” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
Shanna de la Torre
Sex for Structuralists
The Non-Oedipal Logics of Femininity and Psychosis
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in FilmNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network January 17, 2019 Jordan Osserman

What might Levi-Strauss and structuralism have to offer to psychoanalysis beyond the incest prohibition and the Oedipus complex? What happens if we understand Lacan’s notion of the symbolic as creative, rather than prohibitory? And what’s the difference between the psychoanalyst and the shaman? Shanna de la Torre’s Sex for Structuralists:... Read More
Benoît Majerus, “From the Middle Ages to Today: Experiences and Representations of Madness in Paris” (Parigramme, 2018)
Benoît Majerus
From the Middle Ages to Today
Experiences and Representations of Madness in Paris
Parigramme, 2018

New Books in French StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network January 16, 2019 Maia Woolner

With Paris as the organizing locus of his new book, Du moyen âge à nos jours, expériences et représentations de la folie à Paris [From the Middle Ages to Today, Experiences and Representations of Madness in Paris], Benoît Majerus uses an impressively wide range of visual sources, from religious images and... Read More
Robert Grossmark, “The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Companioning” (Routledge, 2018)
Robert Grossmark
The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst
Explorations in Psychoanalytic Companioning
Routledge, 2018

New Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network November 14, 2018 Philip Lance

Can you be a relational analyst who is unobtrusive at the same time? In this book, Robert Grossmark makes a claim that you can and you should! He identifies a vulnerability of the relational style—being that it can place too much emphasis on reflective interactions between patient and therapist, where... Read More
Nathan Kravis, “On the Couch: A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch from Plato to Freud” (MIT Press, 2017)
Nathan Kravis
On the Couch
A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch from Plato to Freud
MIT Press, 2017

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network November 7, 2018 Christopher Bandini

Sometimes, a couch is a only a couch, but not in Dr. Nathan Kravis’s new book, On the Couch: A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch from Plato to Freud (MIT Press, 2017). In a live interview conducted in connection with the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, we discuss how the couch has... Read More

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