Psychoanalysis: Verso Student Reading

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  The Politics of Immunity

  by Mark Neocleous

  Our contemporary political condition is obsessed with immunity. The immunity of bodies and the body politic; personal immunity and herd immunity; how to immunize the social system against breakdown...
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  Sexuality in the Field of Vision

  by Jacqueline Rose

  A pivotal work in the history of feminism and a groundbreaking intervention into film theory, Sexuality in the Field of Vision is a brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminis...
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  Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

  by Sigmund Freud

  Introduction by Philippe Van Haute and Herman Westerink

  Translated by Ulrike Kistner

  Available for the first time in English, the 1905 edition of Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality presents Sigmund Freud’s thought in a form new to all but a few ardent students of his work.This...
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  Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again

  by Katherine Angel

  Women are in a bind. In the name of consent and empowerment, they must proclaim their desires clearly and confidently. Yet sex researchers suggest that women’s desire is often slow to emerge. And m...
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  The Authoritarian Personality

  by Theodor Adorno

  What makes a fascist? Are there character traits that make someone more likely to vote for the far right? The Authoritarian Personality, written in the shadow of Fascism and the Holocaust, looked t...
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  The Capitalist Unconscious

  by Samo Tomšic

  Despite a resurgence of interest in Lacanian psychoanalysis, particularly in terms of the light it casts on capitalist ideology—as witnessed by the work of Slavoj Žižek—there remain remarkably fe...
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  The Dialectics of Liberation

  Contributions by Gregory Bateson, Stokely Carmichael, John Gerassi, Lucien Goldmann, Paul Goodman, Jules Henry, R.D. Laing, Herbert Marcuse and Paul Sweezy

  Edited by David Cooper

  The now legendary Dialectics of Liberation congress, held in London in 1967, was a unique expression of the politics of dissent. Existential psychiatrists, Marxist intellectuals, anarchists, and ...
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  Freud

  by Octave Mannoni

  Translated by Renaud Bruce

  Octave Mannoni worked in France, Madagascar and Africa throughout the twentieth century to extend Lacanian psychoanalytical methods into the field of ethnology. He is best known for his research in...
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  Read My Desire

  by Joan Copjec

  In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern disciplines—psychoanalysis and histor...
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  Lacan

  by Élisabeth Roudinesco

  Translated by Gregory Elliott

  Jacques Lacan continues to be subject to the most extravagant interpretations. Angelic to some, he is demonic to others. To recall Lacan's career, now that the heroic age of psychoanalysis is ove...
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  The Weary Sons of Freud

  by Catherine Clément

  Translated by Nicole Ball

  The Weary Sons of Freud lambasts mainstream psychoanalysis for its failure to grapple with pressing political and social matters pertinent to its patients’ condition. Gifted with insight and comp...
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  Freud and the Non-European

  by Edward W. Said

  Introduction by Christopher Bollas

  Contributions by Jacqueline Rose

  In this influential lecture, Edward Said explores Freud’s foundational work Moses and Monotheism to rethink the relationship between identity, politics and psychoanalysis. The result is a study ill...
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  Freudianism

  by Valentin Voloshinov

  Introduction by Neal Bruss

  Translated by I.R. Titunik

  Freudianism is a major icon in the history of ideas, independently rich and suggestive today both for psychoanalysis and for theories of language. It offers critical insights whose recognition dema...
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  Marx and Freud in Latin America

  by Bruno Bosteels

  This book assesses the untimely relevance of Marx and Freud for Latin America, thinkers alien to the region who became an inspiration to its beleaguered activists, intellectuals, writers and artist...
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  Freudian Slip

  by Sebastiano Timpanaro

  Philology cross-examines Freud in this sustained critique of psychoanalysis and its foundational notion of the slip.Challenging virtually every account of linguistic error in Freud’s work as arbitr...
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  The Freud Scenario

  by Jean-Paul Sartre

  Translated by Quintin Hoare

  In 1958, the US director John Huston asked Jean-Paul Sartre to write a scenario for a film about Sigmund Freud. Huston wanted Sartre to concentrate on the conflict-ridden period of Freud’s life whe...
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  The Man Who Closed the Asylums

  by John Foot

  In 1961, when Franco Basaglia arrived outside the grim walls of the Gorizia asylum, on the Italian border with Yugoslavia, it was a place of horror, a Bedlam for the mentally sick and excluded, r...
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  Déjà Vu and the End of History

  by Paolo Virno

  Translated by David Broder

  This book places two key notions up against each other to imagine a new way of conceptualizing historical time. How do the experience of déjà vu and the idea 'End of History' relate to one another?...
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  Heroes

  by Franco Berardi

  What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? Through an exhilarating mix of philosophical and psychoanalytical theory and reportage - from the suicide epidemic in Korea to the wav...
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  Psychopolitics

  by Byung-Chul Han

  Translated by Erik Butler

  Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault’s biopower...

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  The Weary Sons of Freud

  by Catherine Clément

  Translated by Nicole Ball

  The Weary Sons of Freud lambasts mainstream psychoanalysis for its failure to grapple with pressing political and social matters pertinent to its patients’ condition. Gifted with insight and comp...

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  Contingency, Hegemony, Universality

  by Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek

  What is the contemporary legacy of Gramsci’s notion of Hegemony? How can universality be reformulated now that its spurious versions have been so thoroughly criticized? In this ground-breaking proj...

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  Freud and the Non-European

  by Edward W. Said

  Introduction by Christopher Bollas

  Contributions by Jacqueline Rose

  In this influential lecture, Edward Said explores Freud’s foundational work Moses and Monotheism to rethink the relationship between identity, politics and psychoanalysis. The result is a study ill...

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  Marx and Freud in Latin America

  by Bruno Bosteels

  This book assesses the untimely relevance of Marx and Freud for Latin America, thinkers alien to the region who became an inspiration to its beleaguered activists, intellectuals, writers and artist...

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