Culture and Psychoanalysis-Cinema, Literature and Psychoanalysis of the Current

Culture and Psychoanalysis: Cinema, Literature and Psychoanalysis of the Current consists of articles written by psychoanalyst Bella Habip between 2012 and 2018, starting from the meeting points of culture and psychoanalysis. The reader of these texts, in which the interaction between the cultural field and the spiritual and mental functioning of the individual is explained through a psychoanalytical reading of literature, cinema and current events, has a wide range of topics ranging from the films of director Xavier Dolan to the creative impulse of British psychoanalyst Winnicott, from Orhan Pamuk's The Red Haired Woman to the Oedipus complex. In the words of the author, the ultimate aim of the articles in this book is to reveal the complex relationships between culture and the unconscious by studying the basic concepts of psychoanalysis such as the unconscious, libido, narcissism, Oedipus complex, incest and incest.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Size: 13.5 x 21

First Printing Year: 2019

Number of Printings: 1st Printing