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1	Civilization and Its Discontents more books like this by Sigmund Freud add to wishlist During the summer of 1929, Freud worked on what became this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.31! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Civilization in Transition more books like this by Carl Gustav Jung, Sir Herbert Read (Editor), Michael Fordham (Editor) add to wishlist Essays bearing on the contemporary scene and on the relation of the individual to society, including papers written during the 1920s and 1930s focusing on the upheaval in Germany, and two major works of Jung's last years, The Undiscovered Self and Flying Saucers. see all copies from $59.09! new only from $84.31! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan Through Popular Culture more books like this by Slavoj Zizek, Slavoj A1/2ia3/4ek add to wishlist Provides a reading of the psychoanalytical theory of Jacques Lacan through the works of contemporary popular culture, from horror fiction and detective thrillers to popular romances and Hitchcock films. see all copies from $10.25! new only from $17.67!
4	The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud more books like this by Philip Rieff add to wishlist A look at the role of faith in the post-Freudian world, by the author of FREUD: The Mind of a Moralist. see all copies from $2.70! new only from $17.92! \| first editions
5	Cultural Criticism: A Primer of Key Concepts more books like this by Dr. Arthur Asa Berger add to wishlist In this guide to cultural criticism, Arthur Asa Berger presents complex concepts in jargon-free language, making the book an ideal introductory text. It covers the key theorists, concepts and subject areas, from literary, sociological and psychoanalytical theories of semiotics and Marxism. Berger brings cultural criticism to life by making these ... see all copies from $9.97! new only from $45.56! \| SVS
6	Male Fantasies: Women, Floods, Bodies, History more books like this by Klaus Theweleit add to wishlist "Male Fantasies". see all copies from $4.97! new only from $26.50! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 Edition more books like this by Norman O Brown add to wishlist 'Love's Body is a modern Thus Spake Zarathustra. Norman O. Brown is variously considered the architect of a new view of man, a modern-day shaman, and a Pied Piper leading the youth to America astray. His more ardent admirers, of whom I am one, judge him one of the seminal thinkers who profoundly challenge the dominant assumptions of the age. see all copies from $5.34! new only from $17.95! \| SVS
8	The Feeling Intellect: Selected Writings more books like this by Philip Rieff, Jonathan B Imber (Editor) add to wishlist Collected here for the first time, the writings in 'The Feeling Intellect' demonstrate the range and precision of Philip Rieff's sociology of culture. His reflections on religion, politics, and education offer a constructive sociological vision of sacred order form which all social order drives. see all copies from $9.33! new only from $35.00! \| SVS
9	Sigmund Freud more books like this by Pamela Thurschwell add to wishlist Egos and ids, Oedipus complexes and Freudian slips: we cannot escape the influence of Sigmund Freud not only in literary studies but in the way we think about our lives. Pamela Thurschwell takes a fresh look at the work of this groundbreaking theorist, offering students a clear introduction to Freud's importance for psychoanalytic literary ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $19.72! \| SVS
10	The Dogma of Christ: And Other Essays on Religion, Psychology, & Culture more books like this by Erich Fromm add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
11	Male fantasies more books like this by Klaus Theweleit, Chris Turner (Translator), Anson Rabinbach (Designer) add to wishlist see all copies from $8.00! new only from $27.50! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Is Oedipus Online?: Siting Freud After Freud more books like this by Professor Jerry Aline Flieger add to wishlist Flieger stages an encounter between psychoanalysis and the new century, testing the viability of Freud's theories in light of the emergent realities of our time. Responding to prominent critics of psychoanalysis and approaching our current preoccupations from a Freudian angle she presents a reading of Freudian theory. see all copies from $3.15! new only from $3.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13	The Cultural Dialectics of Knowledge and Desire more books like this by Charles William Nuckolls add to wishlist Offering a cognitive and psychoanalytic approach, this work asks why culture is a problem that can never be solved. It develops a theory of cultural dialectics based on the concept of paradox, in which it shows how ambivalence and conflicts are at the heart of all cultural knowledge systems. see all copies from $3.75! new only from $5.98! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Religious and Romantic Origins of Psychoanalysis: Individuation and Integration in Post-Freudian Theory more books like this by Suzanne R Kirschner, Professor Steven Seidman (Editor), Professor Jeffrey C Alexander (Editor) add to wishlist Demonstrating that they are Western constructions, this study considers the cultural and religious sources of contemporary psychoanalytical theories of the development of the self. Thus, it raises provocative questions about the status of psychoanalytic theories as knowledge and as science. see all copies from $12.70! new only from $33.24! \| first editions
15 view cover	Whose Freud?: The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture more books like this by Peter Brooks (Editor), Alex Woloch (Editor) add to wishlist An assessment of the status of psychoanalysis as a discipline and a discourse in contemporary culture. It brings together a group of theorists and practitioners, such partisans and critics of Freud as Frederic Crews, Judith Butler, Leo Bersani, Juliet Mitchell and Robert Jay Lifton. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $7.16!
16	Feeling, Imagination, and the Self: Transformations of the Mother-Infant Relationship more books like this by William Willeford add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Soul of Popular Culture (Tr) more books like this by Mary L Kittelson (Editor) add to wishlist It is commonly accepted that we see our current moral and political views reflected in the media, our entertainment, and our obsessions. However, it is only in looking beyond the literal interpretations of the movies, television programmes and newspaper headlines which permeate our lives that we see who we are now, who we once were and who we may ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $85.25! \| first editions
18 view cover	The Dogma of Christ more books like this by Erich Fromm add to wishlist In the title essay, Erich Fromm uses the tools of psychoanalysis to examine the development of the dogma of Christ in the context of social history. The remaining essays examine psychological and cultural problems with keen insight and humanistic sympathies. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.74! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Religious Thought and the Modern Psychologies more books like this by Professor Don S Browning add to wishlist "Religious Thought and the Modern Psychologies has pioneered the broader and deeper critique of psychological theories and practice. Informed by hermeneutical theory, Browning's widely acclaimed work drew much-needed attention to the ethical and metaphysical, even religious, assumptions that underlie present-day psychology. It has been deeply ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.46! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out more books like this by Slavoj Zizek add to wishlist In "Enjoy Your Symptom!" Slavoj Zizek argues for the accessibility and ultimate simplicity of Lacanian theory by linking it with popular Hollywood film. "Enjoy Your Symptom!" is divided into five chapters, each elucidating some fundamental Lacanian notion or theoretical complex - "letter, fantasy, woman, repetition, phallus, father" - through a ... see all copies from $5.94! new only from $29.95!
21 view cover	The Shadow in America: Reclaiming the Soul of a Nation more books like this by Jeremiah Abrams (Editor), Thomas Moore (Foreword by) add to wishlist Internationally acclaimed psychologist Robert Johnson, author of He, She and We, has described this book as "extraordinary...I took five minutes intending to browse the manuscript...but it caught me and I had to read every word." With the intention of meeting America's shadow head-on, Abrams has assembled nine leading thinkers and psychologists, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.17! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Saving the Modern Soul: Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help more books like this by Professor Eva Illouz add to wishlist The language of psychology is all-pervasive in American culture - from "The Sopranos" to "Oprah", from the abundance of self-help books to the private consulting room, and from the support group to the magazine advice column. "Saving the Modern Soul" examines the profound impact of therapeutic discourse on our lives and on our contemporary notions ... see all copies from $13.95! new only from $22.95! \| SVS
23 view cover	Presenting the Past: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Misremembering more books like this by Jeffrey Prager add to wishlist Psychology is the dogma of our age: psychotherapy is our means of self-understanding; and "repressed memory" is now a universally familiar form of trauma. In this book, Jeffrey Prager, both a sociologist and a psychoanalyst, explores the degree to which we manifest the cliches of our culture in our most private recollections. At the core of this ... see all copies from $6.70! new only from $10.06! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists more books like this by Joan Copjec add to wishlist Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern discourses--psychoanalysis and historicism. In Copjec's casting of this conflict, psychoanalysis refuses to cede historicity to the historicists, and she makes the case for the superiority of Lacan's explanation of ... see all copies from $93.50! new only from $106.95!
25 view cover	Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories more books like this by Peggy Phelan, Phelan Peggy add to wishlist This new work by the acclaimed author of "Unmasked" makes a stunning advance in performance theory with her study of different instances of injured bodies. In this analysis Peggy Phelan considers what sustained attention to the affective force of trauma might yield for critical theory. see all copies from $30.00! new only from $34.48!

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