André Green

Illusions and Disillusions of Psychoanalysis

A solid introduction to psychoanalysis in general

André Green

The Psychic Causality Between Nature and Culture

Without reprieve, we hear of the agony of psychoanalysis. On one hand, neuroscience and the cognitive sciences reduce the psyche to a sum of 'natural' phenomenon. On the other hand, the social sciences see it as an ensemble of 'cultural' process. In this point-by-point discussion of the issues in this debate, and drawing upon his extensive clinical experience as his main resource, André Green shows that the human psyche is the result of a double determinism, both natural and cultural. It emerges as an original and autonomous creation, and that is exactly what forms the specificity of psychoanalysis. Andre Green is a psychoanalyst and the President of the Psychoanalytic Society of Paris.

Sophie deMijolla-Mellor

At the risk of the order

Could order exist in the absence of any sort of authority to enforce it?

Maurice Corcos

An Anorexia Primer

A dictionary to approach the many facets of anorexia. The psychoanalytical approach enables an understanding of the multiple facets of anorexia

Catherine Clément, Tobie Nathan

The Couch and the Grigri

This work is a fascinating discussion between a practising analyst who has not ceased to confront his discipline with other disciplines of the mind, and a philosopher with great psychoanalytic experience. It aims to show how cultural heritage — a “debt” linking each generation to its ancestors — shapes both how we represent reality and our emotional universe. The authors’ thoughts and conclusions are thoroughly backed up with a variety of specific examples and observations. Tobie Nathan is an ethno-psychologist and teaches clinical and pathological psychology at the University of Paris VIII. Catherine Clément is a writer and philosopher.

Pierre Buser

The Many Faces of the Unconscious

Alain Ehrenberg

The Mechanics of Passions: The New Contemporary Individualism

The book’s very stimulating thesis: the twenty-first century will be the century of the brain and the neurosciences, which are already playing the role that psychoanalysis played in the twentieth century.

Serge Lebovici

The Baby, the Psychoanalyst and the Metaphor Presented by Bernard Golse

This exceptional document, the last work of Serge Lebovici, traces the history of metaphor as a concept for philosophers, linguists,and psychoanalysts. It particularly shows why this notion constitutes the keystone of psychic ontogenesis and of all therapeutic activity. A psychoanalyst, and professor of child and adolescent psychology, Serge Lebovici was the president of the International Psychoanalytical Society.