Stijn Vanheule, Derek Hook and Calum Neill, "Reading Lacan’s Écrits" (Routledge, 2018)
Lacan published his Écrits in 1966, a compilation of his written work up to that middle period in his teaching. Notoriously difficult to read, the editors of the book we’re discussing today describe t...
15 Jul 20191h
Adrienne Harris and Victoria Demos, "Heart Melts Forward: The Collected Writings of Emmanuel Ghent" (Routledge, 2018)
Composer, philosopher, scientist, psychoanalyst-Emmanuel ("Manny") Ghent was all of these and more. In this comprehensive interview with the editors, Adrienne Harris and Victoria Demos of the new book...
7 Jun 201948min
Giuseppe Civitarese, "An Apocryphal Dictionary of Psychoanalysis" (Routledge, 2019)
Giuseppe Civitarese's An Apocryphal Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2019) is a book of transpositions, collecting together the author’s clinical vignettes, enigmatic objects, stray thoughts, ...
4 Jun 201952min
Lawrence J. Brown, "Transformational Processes in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Dreaming, Emotions and the Present Moment" (Routledge, 2019)
In Transformational Processes in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Dreaming, Emotions and the Present Moment (Routledge, 2019), Lawrence J. Brown offers a contemporary perspective on how the mind transforms, a...
14 Mai 201955min
Ellen Pinsky, "Death and Fallibility in the Psychoanalytic Encounter: Mortal Gifts" (Routledge, 2017)
If I could vote for my favorite new psychoanalytic book of the 21st century, Ellen Pinsky's Death and Fallibility in the Psychoanalytic Encounter: Mortal Gifts (Routledge, 2017) would be it. But to be...
19 Apr 20191h 11min
Donald L. Carveth, "Psychoanalytic Thinking: A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice" (Routledge, 2018)
Since the classical Freudian and ego psychology paradigms lost their position of dominance in the late 1950’s, psychoanalysis became a multi-paradigm science with those working in the different framew...
9 Apr 201952min
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic. How can publishers and authors contribut...
19 Mar 201932min
Jacob Johanssen, "Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture: Audiences, Social Media, and Big Data" (Routledge, 2018)
How can insights from psychoanalysis help us understand digital culture? in Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture: Audiences, Social Media, and Big Data (Routledge, 2018), Jacob Johanssen, a senior lectu...
28 Feb 201937min
