Books written by Anthony Elliott

  • Psychoanalysis at Its Limits: Navigating the Postmodern Turn
    Psychoanalysis at Its Limits: Navigating the Postmodern Turn

    Originally published in 2000, Psychoanalysis at its Limits offers a stimulating account of the complex and contradictory nature of psychoanalysis in the postmodern age.

  • The New Individualism: The Emotional Costs of Globalization REVISED EDITION
    The New Individualism: The Emotional Costs of Globalization REVISED EDITION

    This edition contains a substantial new Introduction in which Elliott and Lemert reply to some of the standard criticisms made of the theory of the new individualism, and also addresses the escalation of new individualist thinking in the ...

  • Subject to Ourselves: An Introduction to Freud, Psychoanalysis, and Social Theory
    Subject to Ourselves: An Introduction to Freud, Psychoanalysis, and Social Theory

    The revised edition of Subject to Ourselves, a lively and provocative book that was a leader on its topic in England, uses psychoanalytic theory as the basis for a fresh reassessment of the nature of modernity and postmodernism.

  • Psychoanalysis in Context: Paths between Theory and Modern Culture
    Psychoanalysis in Context: Paths between Theory and Modern Culture

    The volume brings together leading scholars and practitioners in psychoanalysis to develop a unique rethinking of the relations between subjectivity and inter-subjectivity, sexual difference and gender power, and unconscious desire and ...

  • Contemporary Social Theory: An Introduction
    Contemporary Social Theory: An Introduction

    This new edition will prove a superb textbook with which to navigate the twists and turns of contemporary social theory as taught in the disciplines of sociology, politics, history, cultural studies and many more.

  • Identity Troubles: An introduction
    Identity Troubles: An introduction

    In this fascinating book, Anthony Elliott shows how global transformations – the new electronic economy, digital worlds, biotechnologies and artificial intelligence - generatesa metamorphosis across the force-field of identities today.

  • Identity in Question
    Identity in Question

    "A spectacular collection of essays by the most noted theorists of identity. The book well frames the issues around identity that presently are defining living in the early 21st century ... A must read.

  • Social Theory Since Freud: Traversing Social Imaginaries
    Social Theory Since Freud: Traversing Social Imaginaries

    ... Perversion and Utopia , the American philosopher Joel Whitebook writes of the performative contradiction in Frankfurt School sociology between asserting that identity is necessarily as rigid , spiritless and abstract as the reified ...

  • Reinvention
    Reinvention

    This absorbing book is an ideal introduction to the topic of reinvention for students and general readers alike.

  • Identity Troubles: An introduction
    Identity Troubles: An introduction

    ... Fast Families, Virtual Children: A Critical Sociology of Families and Schooling, Boulder, CO: Paradigm. Aho, K. (2007) 'Simmel on acceleration, boredom, and extreme aesthesia', Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 37(4), 447–462 ...