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One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE; SHORT-LISTED FOR THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS PRIZE; A BCALA 2023 HONOR NONFICTION AWAR...
Prestige TV and the Contradictions of the “Liberal” Class
Political Pathologies from The Sopranos to Succession argues that highly praised prestige TV shows reveal the underlying fantasies and contradictions ...
Lacan, Feminisms, and Queer Theory
Uses close readings of Hitchcock's films to combine an articulation of Lacan's theory of ethics with a discussion of recent theories of feminine subje...
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Conservatism, Liberalism, and Neoliberal Populisms
This book outlines a new model for global social justice movements that is based on Freud and Lacan’s central insights regarding the unconscious, re...
What Makes Us Human?
The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Consciousness, Free Will, Language, and Reason examines the ways in which we can use psychoanalysis in order to be...
Hysteria, Narcissism, and the Repression of Psychoanalysis
Trauma, Pedagogy, and the College Mental Health Crisis argues that psychoanalytic theory and practice offers a solution to the large increase in stude...
Generation X and the Rise of the Entertainment Subject defines Gen X as the first generation to be dominated by entertainment subjectivity. A social a...
How to Decrease Cost and Increase Quality at American Universities
Universities tend to be judged by the test scores of their incoming students and not on what students actually learn once they attend these institutio...
Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics after Covid-19
This book looks at the representation of viruses in rhetoric, politics, and popular culture. In utilizing Jean Baudrillard’s concept of virality, it...
Lacan's Reconstruction of Freud
Using the concepts developed by Lacan to analyze the inner logic of Freud's thought, Samuels provides a bridge between Lacanian theory and traditional...
The Science of Everyday Life
This book places Freud’s theory of the reality principle in relation to both everyday experience and global issues of the 21st century and illustrat...
The Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy of Discrimination from Shakespeare to Toni Morrison
Examines the manifestations of racism, sexism, and homophobia in the literary works of Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Joseph Conrad, and Toni Morrison....
Inspired by Freud’s The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, this book examines the unconscious processes shaping contemporary political ideologies. Ad...
This book argues that neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and behavioral economics often function as a political ideology masquerading as a new sci...
Overcoming Climate Change, Pandemics, War, and Poverty
This book offers a unique approach by using psychoanalytic theory to explain how we can resolve the most important issues facing the world today and i...
Global Politics, Philosophy, and Subjectivity
This book builds on a critique of Slavoj Zizek’s work to outline a new theory of psychoanalytic rhetoric. It turns to Zizek because not only is he o...
This book looks at the political aspects of comedy and how humor is shaped by unconscious social and psychological factors within a particular cultura...
Building a Liberal Pluralistic Israel
U'vamakom she'ein anashim, hishtadel l'hiyot ish... "In the place where no one stands up to do what is right, be the one who steps up to the plate." S...
What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears
Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears explores the intersection of sport and psychoanalysis...
A Study in Musical Semiotics
This study uses semiotic theory in order to investigate different kinds of musical communication....
This timely intervention into composition studies presents a case for the need to teach all students a shared system of communication and logic based ...
Beyond the Political Myths of Higher Education and the Job Market
Politicians and school officials often argue that higher education is the solution to many of our social, and economic problems. Educating Inequality ...
The Popular Holocaust and Social Change in a Post-9/11 World
Teaching the Rhetoric of Resistance analyzes diverse contemporary reactions to the depiction of the Holocaust and other cultural traumas in museums, m...
Reinventing Our Universities from Below
A friendly critique of the field, The Politics of Writing Studies examines a set of recent pivotal texts in composition to show how writing scholarshi...
Computers, Composition, and Academic Labor
This book examines how one can teach composition with computers while reflecting critically on the ways technology affects student literacies, faculty...
Without self-pity, former New York City newspaperman and prize-winning magazine editor, Robert C. Samuels tells his own harrowing story of medical sur...
Automodernity from Zizek to Laclau
Volume 1 : Main Report
"The context for this research is the problem of crime and harassment experienced by residents in areas with large concentrations of public housing, a...
University Campuses
Select Bibliography of American and British Materials in Political Science, Economics, Sociology, and Anthropology
In a Medium-density Residential Precinct
Prestige TV and the Contradictions of the "Liberal" Class
This book argues that highly praised prestige TV shows reveal the underlying fantasies and contradictions of upper-middle class political centrists. I...