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Reading the Impossible

Sexual Difference, Critique, and the Stamp of History

Elizabeth Weed

In reconsidering the question of sexual difference, Weed offers a fresh perspective on what is at stake for critical reading in the neoliberal university.

ISBN: 9781531506797

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Toy Stories

Analyzing the Child in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Vanessa Smith

Toy Stories: Analyzing the Child in Nineteenth-Century Literature explores the stakes of recurrent depictions of children’s violent, damaging, and tenuously restorative play with objects within a...

ISBN: 9781531503581

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Melancholy Acts

Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World

Nouri Gana

How do the literatures and cultures of oppressed societies survive and flourish in spite of the overdetermining conditions of precarity and injustice of which they are a product and against which they...

ISBN: 9781531503505

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Secret Sharers

The Intimate Rivalries of Modernism and Psychoanalysis

Jennifer Spitzer

Secret Sharers traces a genealogy of secret sharing between literary modernism and psychoanalysis, focusing on the productive entanglements and intense competitive rivalries that helped shape Anglo-American...

ISBN: 9781531502096

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Corpus III

Cruor and Other Writings

Jean-Luc Nancy

Translated by Jeff Fort

A beautiful, profound series of reflections on the body by one of the most prominent and consequential philosophers of continental Europe

ISBN: 9781531501129

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Let Them Rot

Antigone’s Parallax

Alenka Zupančič

A provocative, highly accessible journey to the heart of Sophocles’ Antigone elucidating why it keeps resurfacing as a central text of Western thought and Western culture.

ISBN: 9781531501044

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From Life to Survival

Derrida, Freud, and the Future of Deconstruction

Robert Trumbull

The book argues for deconstruction’s ongoing relevance, showing how Jacques Derrida’s deep engagement with Freud across the full trajectory of his work, in particular his engagement with Freud’s notion of life and death drives, supplies the key way into Derrida’s recasting of life as life death and, in turn, survival.

ISBN: 9780823298730

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Eros

Beyond the Death Drive

Rosaura Martínez Ruiz

Translated by Ramsey McGlazer

This book elaborates the political and intimate possibilities of going beyond the tendency toward destruction that Freud identified in human nature. Martínez argues that Eros is the force that can help us resist this destructive drive, and that resistance must take the form of unceasing ethical vigilance and political action.

ISBN: 9780823298280

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Homo Psyche

On Queer Theory and Erotophobia

Gila Ashtor

Winner, Alan Bray Memorial Book Award2022 Lammy Finalist, LGBTQ StudiesCan queer theory be erotophobic? This book proceeds from the perplexing observation that for all of its political agita, rhetorical...

ISBN: 9780823294152

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In Defense of Secrets

Anne Dufourmantelle

Translated by Lindsay Turner

Finalist, French-American Foundation Translation PrizeIn an age that prizes political and personal transparency, In Defense of Secrets champions the secret as what permits relation and ensures our humanity.Psychoanalyst...

ISBN: 9780823289233

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The Doctor and Mrs. A.

Ethics and Counter-Ethics in an Indian Dream Analysis

Sarah Pinto

In the 1940’s, the young Punjabi “Mrs. A.” reflected on sexuality, gender, and struggle in a dream analysis with psychiatrist Dev Satya Nand, drawing on Hindu myth to conceive a better, socialist future. An unconventional history of gender and sexuality in late colonialism, this book reminds us that the West does not have a monopoly on feminism, psychiatry, or ethical paradigms.

ISBN: 9780823286669

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Jacques the Sophist

Lacan, Logos, and Psychoanalysis

Barbara Cassin

Translated by Michael Syrotinski

Sophistry has long been philosophy’s bad other, yet in many ways, its emphasis on words and performativity remain more important than philosophical Truth. This book celebrates an underground survival of the sophistical tradition in the work of work of psychoanalysis, and its determination to take seriously equivocations, jokes, and unfinishable projects of interpretation.

ISBN: 9780823285747

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In Praise of Risk

Anne Dufourmantelle

Translated by Steven Miller

This book, whose original French edition achieved worldwide attention when its author died trying to save two children caught in a riptide, challenges the psychic work the modern world devotes to avoiding risk. Weaving psychoanalytic case studies together with philosophical reflections, Dufourmantelle shows how risk is an essential property of life, one that requires our embrace.

ISBN: 9780823285440

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Dynamis of Healing

Patristic Theology and the Psyche

Pia Sophia Chaudhari

This book explores how traces of the energies and dynamics of Orthodox Christian theology and anthropology may be observed in the clinical work of depth psychology. Looking to theology to express its...

ISBN: 9780823284641

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The Reproduction of Life Death

Derrida's La vie la mort

Dawne McCance

Based on archival translations of Derrida’s as-yet untapped (1975-76) La vie la mort seminar, McCance’s The Reproduction of Life Death offers an unprecedented study of Derrida’s engagement both with the logic of reproduction held by 1970s molecular biology and genetics and with reproductivity as theorized and performed by Freud in Beyond the Pleasure Principle.

ISBN: 9780823283903

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For the Love of Psychoanalysis

The Play of Chance in Freud and Derrida

Elizabeth Rottenberg

This book is about what exceeds or resists calculation—in life and in death. Its two parts and nine chapters highlight, in their coupling of Freud and Derrida (“Freuderrida”), the accidents both in and of psychoanalytic writing, and the philosophical question of what limits the openness of our horizon.

ISBN: 9780823284108

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Trauma and Transcendence

Suffering and the Limits of Theory

Edited by Eric Boynton and Peter Capretto

Afterword by Mary-Jane Rubenstein

This volume gathers scholars in philosophy, psychology, religion, and sociology variety of disciplines to meet the challenge of how to think trauma and transcendence inlight of the interdisciplinary character of the field of Trauma Studies and its splintering across the multiple theoretical approaches.

ISBN: 9780823280278

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Freud and Monotheism

Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion

Edited by Gilad Sharvit and Karen S. Feldman

Contributor(s): Jan Assmann, Richard Bernstein, Willi Goetschel, Ronald Hendel, Catherine Malabou, Gabriele Schwab, Yael Segalovitz, Gilad Sharvit and Joel Whitebook

Moses and Monotheism brings together fundamental new contributions to discourses on Freud and Moses, as well as new research on the intersections of theology, political theory, and history in Freud’s psychoanalytic work.

ISBN: 9780823280032

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Realizing Capital

Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form

Anna Kornbluh

Traces modern rhetorical and ideological connections between finance and psychology first generated in the Victorian period in the journalism of Walter Bagehot and David Morier Evans; the novels of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Anthony Trollope; and the critical works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud.

ISBN: 9780823280384

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Poetry and Mind

Tractatus Poetico-Philosophicus

Laurent Dubreuil

“What one cannot compute, one must poetize.” So concludes this remarkable sequence of propositions on the centrality of poetry for what we call cognition. Developed through brief, lucid, and eloquent...

ISBN: 9780823279647

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Power of Gentleness

Meditations on the Risk of Living

Anne Dufourmantelle

Translated by Katherine Payne and Vincent Sallé

Key moments of our lives, especially at the beginning and end, are marked by gentleness—but the simplicity of that concept is misleading. Gentleness is an active passivity that may become an extraordinary...

ISBN: 9780823279609

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Freud's Jaw and Other Lost Objects

Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer

Lana Lin

Draws on psychoanalyst Melanie Klein’s theories, among others, to examine the psychic effects of illness, in particular cancer, on the life and work of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, poet Audre Lorde, and literary theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Also discusses psychic and material culture at the Freud Museums in London and Vienna.

ISBN: 9780823277728

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The Future Life of Trauma

Partitions, Borders, Repetition

Jennifer Yusin

The Future Life of Trauma discusses the intersections between psychoanalysis and postcolonial studies in the concept of trauma. It examines the character of the traumatic event as it occurs in the Freudian metapsychology, the 1947 Partition of British India, and the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

ISBN: 9780823275465

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Public Things

Democracy in Disrepair

Bonnie Honig

Drawing on Winnicott and Hannah Arendt, Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair develops a lexicon for a political theory of public things. Indigenous activism, racial inequality, and democratic citizenship; care, concern, hope, and play all figure in readings of contemporary events and literary, film, and political theory (Tocqueville, Melville, von Trier).

ISBN: 9780823276417

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Shadows of Trauma

Memory and the Politics of Postwar Identity

Aleida Assmann

Translated by Sarah Clift

The book traces the process of creating of a new German memory of the Holocaust after the fall of the Wall. Combining theoretical analysis with historical case studies, the book revisits crucial debates and controversial issues out of which Germany’s new ‘memory culture’ emerged as a collective project and work in progress.

ISBN: 9780823267286

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Reading the Impossible

Toy Stories

Melancholy Acts

Secret Sharers

Corpus III

Let Them Rot

From Life to Survival

Eros

Homo Psyche

In Defense of Secrets

The Doctor and Mrs. A.

Jacques the Sophist

In Praise of Risk

Dynamis of Healing

The Reproduction of Life Death

For the Love of Psychoanalysis

Trauma and Transcendence

Freud and Monotheism

Realizing Capital

Poetry and Mind

Power of Gentleness

Freud's Jaw and Other Lost Objects

The Future Life of Trauma

Public Things

Shadows of Trauma

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