Freud's religious unbeliefs are too easily dismissed as the standard scientific rationalism of the twentieth-century intellectual, yet he scorned the high-minded humanism of his contemporaries. This title explores the notion of 'mass-psychology'.

Retells the story of Albertine from Proust's A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu , from the author's point of view. This story of a woman carries us into a lush, dream-like world, in which a drama of passion suggestive and erotic, intriguing and provocative is played out on bodies and minds alike.

The author argues that without a concept of fantasy we can understand neither Plath's work nor what she has come to represent. She proposes that no writer demonstrates more forcefully than Plath the importance of inner psychic life for the wider sexual and political world.

What is the meaning of Peter Pan -- not for J. M. Barrie, but for the thousands who have continued to purchase for children version after version of the story and who have faithfully attended the productions of the play? What does Peter Pan have to say about our conception of childhood, about how we understand the child's and our own relationship to language, sexuality, and death? What can Peter .

With essays on war, Margaret Thatcher and the dispute over seduction in relation to Freud, this book offers new forms of potential psychopolitical understanding. In two extended essays, Rose suggests that it is time for a radical re-reading of Melanie Klein's work.

A brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory.

Moustapha Safouan, one of France's foremost psychoanalytic thinkers, argues that only a radical reappraisal of the training process, unquestioned since the 1920s until the vigorous but finally unsuccessful challenge of Jacques Lacan, will give back to psychoanalysis its true inspirational status.

An examination of politics and writing in dark times. This work explores the power of writing to create and transform our political lives. It examines the role of literature in the Zionist imagination. While Israel-Palestine is the repeated focus, it also turns to post-apartheid South Africa, and to American national fantasy post-9/11.

This text argues for an expansion of the boundaries of English and the importance of psychoanalysis in understanding literary and historical lives. It also explores the place of Israel/Palestine and South Africa in the English literary and cultural imagination.