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The affective life of the transference modality is also explicated; as is Webster's proto-feminist approach to psychoanalysis, female sexuality and desire, and the cultural history of hysteria. This essay provides a review of the book I Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis i (2019), written by psychoanalyst and professor Dr Jamieson Webster. [Extracted from the article]

Yet the literature on Internet addiction fails to establish the agent of this presumptive malady, Friedman points out, as well as what it is that users are actually doing or desiring that constitutes an addiction. In her new book, I Internet Addiction: A Critical Psychology of Users i (Routledge, 2021), Emaline Friedman takes on an enormous and weighty task. [Extracted from the article]

Swales and Owens begin by expounding upon Freud's notion that one can be of two minds about something, and proceed to elaborate on the place of this ambivalence in contemporary culture. Stephanie Swales and Carol Owens' I Psychoanalyzing Ambivalence With Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch i suggests that human beings are constituted by an unconscious fundamental ambivalence. [Extracted from the article]