Category Archives: Sigmund Freud

Rossella Saetta Cottone ed. Clémence Ramnoux, entre mythes et philosophie: Dumézil, Freud, Bachelard (avec des inédits de Clémence Ramnoux) – Éditions Rue d’Ulm, October 2025

Rossella Saetta Cottone ed. Clémence Ramnoux, entre mythes et philosophie: Dumézil, Freud, Bachelard (avec des inédits de Clémence Ramnoux) – Éditions Rue d’Ulm, October 2025 Some excerpts available here; parts available online with subscription. Ramnoux’s Œuvres were published a few … Continue reading

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Jerome C. Wakefield, Foucault Versus Freud: Oedipal Theory and the Deployment of Sexuality – Routledge, July 2024

Jerome C. Wakefield, Foucault Versus Freud: Oedipal Theory and the Deployment of Sexuality – Routledge, July 2024 I missed this when it came out last year, but looks interesting – Wakefield was part of Foucault’s 1983 seminar at Berkeley, which is why … Continue reading

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The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, original translation by James Strachey, revised, supplemented and edited by Mark Solms – Rowman & Littlefield, June 2024

The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, original translation by James Strachey, revised, supplemented and edited by Mark Solms – Rowman & Littlefield, June 2024 The physical set doesn’t come cheap – $1,950.00 or £1,500.00! … Continue reading

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 16: archive work in the UK and working around the British Library disruption

With the British Library still offline and so largely unusable, and without a trip to Paris this month, I’ve mainly been working at home, though with a few side trips to libraries and archives in the UK. SOAS has a special collections … Continue reading

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John Forrester, Freud and Psychoanalysis: Six Introductory Lectures, ed. Lisa Appignanesi – Polity, May 2023

John Forrester, Freud and Psychoanalysis: Six Introductory Lectures, ed. Lisa Appignanesi – Polity, May 2023

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Books received – Freud, Beckman on Deleuze, Heidegger, Olson, Hanawalt, Willetts

Freud’s Therapy and Technique; Frida Beckman’s Gilles Deleuze; the latest volume of Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe; Kevin Olson’s Imagined Sovereignties: The Power of the People and Other Myths of the Modern Age; Barbara Hanawalt’s Ceremony and Civility: Civic Culture in Late Medieval London; and David Willett’s A University … Continue reading

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My favourite academic books of 2017

  I don’t think I read as many new books this year as previous years, and the ‘to read’ piles get ever higher… But these are the academic books published in 2017 which I particularly liked: Update: the lists for … Continue reading

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The Early Foucault Update 15: Working on Maladie mentale et personnalité and some archival and library work in Paris

Earlier this month I finished working through Maladie mentale et personnalité, which I discussed beginning in the last update, and have drafted a substantial section analyzing the book. I imagine I can only use a fraction of the quotes I … Continue reading

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Books received – Wilson, Beer, Park and Kaplan, Sullivan, Roudinesco, Mattern

A pile of recent books – Matthew Wilson, New Lines: Critical GIS and the Trouble of the Map; David Beer, Metric Power; Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan (eds.), Life in the Age of Drone Warfare; Rob Sullivan, The Geography of … Continue reading

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Books received – Freud, Carceral Notebooks 12, Derrida, Latour, Eribon

Two volumes of the Penguin Freud library, issue 12 of the Carceral Notebooks; the most recently published Derrida seminar, Théorie et pratique; Bruno Latour’s Facing Gaia and a second-hand copy of Didier Eribon’s Michel Foucault et ses contemporains. The Latour was … Continue reading

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