The BPC Scholars’ Network Partners with the ‘Psychoanalysis & Popular Culture’ Book Series
The BPC Scholars' Network is pleased to announce its collaboration with the Routledge 'Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture' Book Series.
In 2024, the BPC Scholars’ Network partnered with the Routledge published book series: ‘Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture‘. Works in this series set out to explore the creative tensions of thinking about cultural experience and its processes whilst also paying attention to observations from both the clinical and scholarly fields. This 12-book series aims to consider the relationship between psychoanalysis and popular culture as a lived experience that is ever more emotionalised in the contemporary age.
The book series has a collection of contributors, many of which are BPC Founding Scholars, BPC Scholars and BPC Registrants. Founding Scholar Brett Kahr wrote ‘How to Be Intimate with 15,000,000 Strangers: Musings on Media Psychoanalysis‘ as part of the series. Jacob Johnanssen, another founding Scholar, wrote ‘Fantasy, Online Misogyny and the Manosphere: Male Bodies of Dis/Inhibition‘ as a contribution to the collection. Noreen Giffney, Scholar and Co-Editor of BPC magazine New Associations, wrote ‘The Culture-Breast in Psychoanalysis: Cultural Experiences and the Clinic’ as part of the series. The series was edited by BPC Scholars Caroline Bainbridge and Candida Yates who also wrote the book ‘Television and Psychoanalysis: Psycho-Cultural Perspectives‘ as part of this series.
To mark this collaboration, we talked to the authors of the book series to get their take on the importance of exploring the relationship between psychoanalysis and popular culture, as well as what drove them to write their contributing book. Explore their thoughts in the images below.
If you’d like to get in touch to learn more about how to partner with us, please contact hello@bpc.org.uk.
