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This vibrant family saga chronicles the rise and fall of the Nassar clan, as they navigate the great events of the 20th century in Lebanon, from the Ottoman Empire to the French Mandate. At the end...

"Van Haute's exegesis of Lacan's essay is as lucid as it is cogent--an admirable (and very illuminating) achievement."-William RichardsonAuthor: Philippe Van HautePublisher: Other Press...

Five cutting-edge scientists compete for $100 million and control of a new institute dedicated to eradicating Alzheimer's in this edifying, Da Vinci Code-esque thriller. Spurred by his wife's...

A timely, deeply personal biography of a Jewish leader whose questions for Israel have come back to haunt us with a vengeance. Born in what is now Lviv, Ukraine, in 1869, Marcus Ehrenpreis was the...

A Bestseller Attachment Theory shows scientifically how our earliest relationships with our mothers influence our later relationships in life. This book offers an excellent introduction to the...

A Best Book of 2023 by The New Yorker From the acclaimed biographer and author of Balzac's Omelette, an engaging new work on the life of "the father of Impressionism" and the role his Jewish...

This companion text to Introduction the Reading of Lacan focuses on the concept of the psychic structures of desire. Using case examples, Dor explains the crucial difference between symptoms?which...

In this timely and explosive novel, an academic's seemingly mundane midlife crisis takes an alarming turn after his visit to a Greek monastery. It's February 2019. Philip Notman, an acclaimed...

In this lucid and compelling analysis of Lacan's twenty-third seminar, "Le Sinthome," Roberto Harari points to new psychoanalytic pathways that lead beyond Freudian oedipal dynamics. Lacan's seminar...

In the English-speaking psychoanalytic world, few diagnostic categories are as controversial as hysteria. This concept, widely held to reflect outmoded cultural prejudices aganist women, has...

"A major and long overdue addition to the America/English psychoanalytic literature. . . . All major concepts--among them the mirror stage, the Name-of-the-Father, metaphor and metonymy, the phallus,...

"By detailing the constitutive incompletion of the Lacanian project, the contributors have guaranteed the success of their book, which will remain a major reference for a long time to come."-Joan...

What makes it so difficult for Lacanian and American psychoanalysts to understand each other? This question runs through Lacan and the New Wave in American Psychoanalysis, a book that explores the...

Designed for novices as well as students of psychology and literary criticism, these systematic lectures do much to clarify Lacan's groundbreaking work on the birth of the subject and its links with...

In a groundbreaking integration of the work of Lacan, Winnicott, and Tustin, Catherine Mathelin reveals how a child's symptoms can be a striking reflection of its parents' unresolved conflicts. She...

An aging writer's love letter to his elderly mother, this achingly beautiful work of autofiction traces their family's history in Greece and in exile. Theodor Kallifatides, an acclaimed Greek author...

Filled with clinical vignettes that bring her writings to life, the book cognently addresses such disparate topics as diagnosis, the superego, and silence, as well as the important of spirituality...

Following two outcasts' tumultuous friendship, this brilliant, Strega Prize-winning novel captures the probing, passionate nature of a generation of global citizens, exploring sexuality and identity...

Wickedly dark with a mystical edge, this story of an Italian love affair gone bad captures the irresistible pull of toxic relationships--from the acclaimed author of Carnality. A woman arrives in...

"A fascinating mixture of traditional psychoanalytic thinking with clinical strategies that even today would be considered creative and controversial, The Fifty-Minute Hour has never failed to...

An idealistic young man attempts to find his place in a changed world after incarceration, in this Turkish classic from the pioneering writer and activist, now available for the first time in English...

Winner of the Gradiva Award in Historical Cultural and Literary Analysis and The 2004 Boyer Prize for Contributions to Psychoanalytic Anthropology During the 1950's, US Army medical officers noted a...

A Best Book of the Year by Financial Times and Bloomberg Filled with real political insight and intrigue, this thrilling novel explores the nature of power through the inner workings of Putin's...

Through the life of a remarkable woman--based on pioneering stage director Sun Weishi (1921-1968)--this epic novel immerses us in the multifaceted history of China's Communist Party. A powerful,...

A collaboration between an Israeli psychologist and a Palestinian school teacher. This highly original book recounts the surprisingly candid stories of three Palestinian mothers and their daughters...

Freud's question is at the root of his discoveries about the unconscious. Serge Andr? says that a woman wants the truth, and, in this subtle and highly original comparison of Freud and Lacan, he...

A rich, joyful collection of poems on living and loving from the Booker Prize-winning author. Freedom is the most precious commodity in the world. In this powerful collection, the celebrated...

Wilfred Bion was one of the most original and influential thinkers in recent psychoanalysis. His ideas, which can be traced in direct line in the development of psychoanalytic theory from Freud to...