Psychoanalytic Theory & Criticism


Primary Sources   I   Psychanalytic Theory & Criticism Traditional Freudian


Marie Bonaparte, Edgar Poe, étude psychanalytique (1933, 2 vols. The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation, trans. John Rodker, 1971).

Richard Boothby, Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology after Lacan (2001).

Victor Brome, Ernest Jones: A Biography (1983).

Norman O. Brown, Love’s Body (1966).

Ronald W. Clark, Sigmund Freud: The Man and the Cause (1980).

Frederick Crews, Out of My System: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and Critical Method (1975).

Frederick Crews, Psychoanalysis and Literary Process (1970).

Frederick Crews, The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne’s Literary Themes (1966).

Frederick Crews, Skeptical Engagements (1986).

Leon Edel, Henry James (5 vols., 1953–72).

Leon Edel, Henry James: A Life (1985).

Anton Ehrenzweig, The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination (1967).

Otto Fenichel, The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis (1945).

Graham Frankland, Freud’s Literary Culture (2000).

Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time (1988).

Phyllis Greenacre, Swift and Carroll: A Psychoanalytic Study of Two Lives (1955).

Daniel Hoffman, Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe (1972).

Frederick J. Hoffman, Freudianism and the Literary Mind (1945).

Ernest Jones, Hamlet and Oedipus (1949).

Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (3 vols., 1957).

Ernest Jones, On the Nightmare (1931).

Ernest Jones, Psycho-Myth, Psycho-History: Essays in Applied Psychoanalysis (1974).

Ernest Jones, "The Theory of Symbolism," Papers on Psycho-Analysis (5th ed., 1916).

Ernst Kris, Psychoanalytic Explorations in Art (1952).

Julia Kristeva, Intimate Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis (trans. Jeanine Herman, 2002).

Jacques Lacan, "The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis" ("The Rome Discourse," 1953).

Jacques Lacan, Écrits: A Selection (1953, trans. Alan Sheridan, 1977).

Jacques Lacan, "Seminar on ‘The Purloined Letter,’" (Muller and Richardson, 1956).

John Muller and William Richardson, eds., The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida, and Psychoanalytic Reading (1988).

Otto Rank, Art and Artist: Creative Urge and Personality Development (1932).

Otto Rank, Der Doppelgänger (1914, The Double: A Psychoanalytic Study, trans. Harry Tucker Jr., 1925).

Otto Rank, Das Inzest-Motiv in Dichtung und Sage (1912, The Incest Theme in Literature and Legend: Fundamentals of a Psychology of Literary Creation, trans. Gregory C. Richter, 1992).

Otto Rank, The Myth of the Birth of the Hero (1909, trans. F. Robbins and Smith Ely Jelliffe, 1914).

Ella Freeman Sharpe, Collected Papers on Psycho-Analysis (ed. Marjorie Brierley, 1950).

Elizabeth Wright, Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Reappraisal (1984, 2d ed., 1998).


Primary Sources   I   Psychanalytic Theory & Criticism Rethinking Freud


David Bleich, Subjective Criticism (1978).

Norman O. Brown, Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis (1993).

Norman O. Brown, "Apocalypse: The Place of Mystery in the Life of the Mind," Harper’s May (1961).

Norman O. Brown, Closing Time (1973).

Norman O. Brown, "Daphne, or Metamorphosis," Myths, Dreams, and Religion (ed. Joseph Campbell, 1970).

Norman O. Brown, Hermes, The Thief (1947).

Norman O. Brown, Hesiod’s Theogeny (1953).

Norman O. Brown, Life against Death (1959).

Norman O. Brown, Love’s Body (1966).

Janice Doane and Devon Hodges, From Klein to Kristeva: Psychoanalytic Feminism and the Search for the "Good Enough" Mother (1992).

Margery Durham, "The Mother Tongue: Christabel and the Language of Love," The (M)other Tongue: Essays in Feminist Psychoanalytic Interpretation, (ed. Shirley N. Garner, Claire Kahane, and Madelon Sprengnether, 1986).

Elizabeth A. Flynn and Patrocinio P. Schweickart, eds., Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts, and Contexts (1986).

Phyllis Grosskurth, Melanie Klein: Her World and Her Work (1986).

Norman N. Holland, The Dynamics of Literary Response (1968).

Norman N. Holland, Five Readers Reading (1975).

Norman N. Holland, Holland’s Guide to Psychoanalytic Psychology and Literature and Psychology (1990).

Norman N. Holland, The I (1985).

Norman N. Holland, Laughing: A Psychology of Humor (1982).

Norman N. Holland, "The Nature of Psychoanalytic Criticism," Literature and Psychology 12 (1962).

Norman N. Holland, "The New Paradigm: Subjective or Transactive?" New Literary History 7 (1976).

Norman N. Holland, "The Prophetic Tradition," Studies in Romanticism 21 (1982).

Norman N. Holland, Psychoanalysis and Shakespeare (1966).

Norman N. Holland, "Twenty-five Years and Thirty Days," Psychoanalytic Quarterly 55 (1986).

Norman N. Holland, "Unity Identity Text Self," PMLA 90 (1975).

Norman N. Holland and Murray Schwartz, "The Delphi Seminar," College English 36 (1975).

Norman N. Holland and Leona F. Sherman, "Gothic Possibilities" (Flynn and Schweickart, 1977).

Melanie Klein, The Writings of Melanie Klein (4 vols., 1984, vol. 1, Love, Guilt, and Reparation and Other Works, 1921–45; vol. 2, The Psycho-Analysis of Children; vol. 3, Envy and Gratitude and Other Works, 1946–1963; vol. 4, Narrative of a Child Analysis).

Julia Kristeva, La Révolution du langage poétique: L’Avant-garde à la fin du XIXe siècle, Lautréamont et Mallarmé (1974, Revolution in Poetic Language, trans. Margaret Waller, 1984).

Simon O. Lesser, Fiction and the Unconscious (1957).

Simon O. Lesser, "The Image of the Father Five," Approaches of Literary Criticism (ed. Wilbur Scott, 1963).

Simon O. Lesser, "The Language of Fiction," A College Book of Modern Fiction (ed. Walter B. Rideout and James K. Robinson, 1961).

Simon O. Lesser, "Some Unconscious Elements in Response to Fiction," Literature and Psychology 3 (1953).

Simon O. Lesser, The Whispered Meanings: Selected Essays of Simon O. Lesser (ed. Robert Sprich and Richard Nolan, 1977).

Toril Moi, Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory (1985, 2d ed., 2002).

Michael Rustin, The Good Society and the Inner World: Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Culture (1991).

Alison Sinclair, The Deceived Husband: A Kleinian Approach to the Literature of Infidelity (1993).

Simon Stuart, New Phoenix Wings: Reparation in Literature (1979).


Primary Sources   I   Psychanalytic Theory & Criticism Post-Lacanians


Alain Badiou, Deleuze: La Clameur de l’être (1997, Deleuze: The Clamor of Being, trans. Louise Burchill, 1999).

Alain Badiou, L’Ethique: Essai sur la conscience du mal (1993, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil, trans. Peter Hallward, 2001).

Alain Badiou, Manifeste pour la philosophie (1989, Manifesto for Philosophy, trans. Norman Madarasz, 1999).

Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau, and Slavoj Žižek, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left (2000).

Hélène Cixous, Angst (1977, Angst, trans. Jo Levy, 1985).

Gilles Deleuze, The Deleuze Reader (ed. Constantin V. Boundas, 1992).

Gilles Deleuze, Empirisme et subjectivité (1953, Empiricism and Subjectivity: An Essay on Hume’s Theory of Human Nature, trans. Constantin V. Boundas, 1991).

Gilles Deleuze, La Philosophie critique de Kant (1963, Kant’s Critical Philosophy: The Doctrine of the Faculties, trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam, 1984).

Todd Dufresne, Freud under Analysis: History, Theory, Practice (1997).

Todd Dufresne, Returns of the French Freud : Freud, Lacan, and Beyond (1996).

Todd Dufresne, Tales from the Freudian Crypt: The Death Drive in Text and Context (2000).

Shoshana Felman, Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight: Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture (1987).

Shoshana Felman, Le Scandale du corps parlant: Don Juan avec Austin ou la séduction en deux langues (1980, The Literary Speech Act: Don Juan with J. L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages, trans. Catherine Porter, 1983, reprint, The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J. L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages, 2003).

Jacques Lacan, Écrits (1966, Écrits: A Selection, trans. Alan Sheridan, 1977, trans. Bruce Fink, Héloise Fink, and Russell Grigg, 2002).

Jacques Lacan, Le Séminaire livre XX: Encore (ed. Jacques Alain Miller, 1975, On Feminine Sexuality: The Limits of Love and Knowledge, trans. Bruce Fink, 1998).

Elaine Marks and Isabelle de Courtivron, eds., New French Feminisms: An Anthology (1980).

Michèle Montrelay, L’Ombre et le nom: Sur la féminité (1977).

Laurence A. Rickels, Nazi Psychoanalysis (3 vols., 2002, vol. 1, Only Psychoanalysis Won the War; vol. 2 Crypto-fetishism; vol. 3, Psy fi).

Slavoj Žižek, Culture (2003).

Slavoj Žižek, For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor (1991).

Slavoj Žižek, Philosophy (2003).

Slavoj Žižek, Society, Politics, and Ideology (2003).