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Christina Griffin, “The Regulars’ Table: Conversations with Ferenczi” (IP Books, 2018)
Christina Griffin
The Regulars' Table
Conversations with Ferenczi
International Psychoanalytic Books, 2018

New Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network May 29, 2020 Christopher Russell

From the Central Coast of California to Baden-Baden, Toronto, Siracusa, and Budapest, Christina Griffin‘s The Regulars’ Table: Conversations with Ferenczi (International Psychoanalytic Books, 2018) is about deep enduring friendships; then and now. Inspired by Ignotus’ eulogy for Ferenczi, Christina Griffin decided to emulate his experiments in thought transference. This experience... Read More
Adrienne Harris and Plinio Montagna, “Psychoanalysis, Law, and Society” (Routledge, 2019)
Adrienne Harris and Plinio Montagna
Psychoanalysis, Law, and Society

Routledge, 2019

New Books in LawNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network May 26, 2020 Christopher Bandini

The areas of the Law and psychoanalysis overlap in interesting and compelling fashion in the new book, Psychoanalysis, Law, and Society (Routledge, 2019) edited by Adrienne Harris and Plinio Montagna. The book is far reaching and covers where the law and psychoanalysis intersect in diverse areas such as family dynamics,... Read More
Noëlle McAfee, “Fear of Breakdown: Psychoanalysis and Politics” (Columbia UP, 2019)
Noëlle McAfee
Fear of Breakdown
Psychoanalysis and Politics
Columbia University Press, 2019

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in Science & Technology May 22, 2020 Tracy Morgan

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.  Taking her cue from Winnicott, Noëlle McAfee’s Fear of Breakdown: Psychoanalysis and Politics (Columbia University Press, 2019), explores the implications of breakdown fears for... Read More
Nancy J. Chodorow, “The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye” (Routledge 2020)
Nancy J. Chodorow
The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye
Toward an American Independent Tradition
Routledge, 2020

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network May 20, 2020 Sebastian Thrul

In The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye: Toward an American Independent Tradition (Routledge 2020) Professor Nancy J. Chodorow gives name and shape to an American middle group between the ego psychological and interpersonal approaches: The American Independent Tradition or intersubjective ego psychology. Through her careful exegesis of theoreticians like... Read More
Fulvio Mazzacane, “Contemporary Bionian Theory and Technique in Psychoanalysis” (Routledge, 2018)
Fulvio Mazzacane
Contemporary Bionian Theory and Technique in Psychoanalysis

Routledge, 2018

New Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network May 13, 2020 Philip Lance

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. Fulvio Mazzacane’s new book Contemporary Bionian Theory and Technique in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2018) provides a concise and comprehensive introductory overview of the latest thinking in... Read More
Adrian Johnston, “Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism: The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy ” (Northwestern UP, 2013)
Adrian Johnston
Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism
The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy
Northwestern University Press, 2013

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Secularism May 11, 2020 Stephen Dozeman

In the contemporary philosophical landscape, a variety of materialist ontologies have appeared, all wrestling with various political and philosophical questions in light of a post-God ontology. Entering into this discussion is Adrian Johnston, with his 3-volume ​Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism​, an attempt to develop a systematic and thoroughly atheistic... Read More
Dominik Finkelde, “Excessive Subjectivity: Kant, Hegel, Lacan and the Foundations of Ethics” (Columbia UP, 2017)
Dominik Finkelde
Excessive Subjectivity
Kant, Hegel, Lacan and the Foundations of Ethics
Columbia University Press, 2017

New Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in Science & Technology May 6, 2020 Stephen Dozeman

How are we to conceive of acts that suddenly expose the injustice of the current order? This is a question that has puzzled philosophers for centuries, and it’s the question that animates Dominik Finkelde’s book ​Excessive Subjectivity: Kant, Hegel, Lacan, and the Foundation of Ethics (Columbia University Press, 2017). The... Read More
Lisa Baraitser, “Enduring Time” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017)
Lisa Baraitser
Enduring Time

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

New Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in Science & Technology April 9, 2020 Jordan Osserman

In Enduring Time (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), practicing psychoanalyst and Professor of Psychosocial Theory Lisa Baraitser (Birkbeck, University of London) 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.... Read More

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