We are fed at the breast of culture, not wholly but to differing degrees. The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis: Cultural Experiences and the Clinic focuses on t

This book provides an extensive introduction and theoretical background to the field, situating psychoanalysis itself in contemporary culture. It shows the rele

An interdisciplinary study of skin bridging cultural and psychoanalytic theory to consider how the body's "exterior" is central to human subjectivity and relati

Frantz Fanon, Erich Fromm, Pierre Bourdieu, and Marie Langer are among those activists, clinicians, and academics who have called for a social psychoanalysis. F

Each chapter examines the correspondence of a particular psycho-analyst with a particular author.