Psychoanalysis Culture and Society

Editorial

• Editor's introduction to special issue on ‘Us vs Them’

  Lynne Layton

  pp. 1-3

Original Article

• Large-group identity: ‘Us and them’ polarizations in the international arena

  Vamık D. Volkan

  pp. 4-15

• Them without us: The ultimate in sexual politics

  Todd McGowan

  pp. 16-23

• The Polarization of Hope

  Karl Figlio

  pp. 24-31

• A Jungian Approach to Understanding ‘us vs Them’ Dynamics

  Thomas Singer

  pp. 32-40

• God, Gays and Good-Enough Enemies

  Cynthia Burack

  pp. 41-48

• Regression in the Construction of the Immigrant Other

  Ricardo C. Ainslie

  pp. 49-57

• Strange vaginas: Us and Them

  Sue Grand

  pp. 58-64

• Other/Alterity: Lacan and Agamben on Ethics, the Subject and Desubjectification

  Kalpana Rahita Seshadri

  pp. 65-73

• The Paradox of Belonging

  Farhad Dalal

  pp. 74-81

• Us, Them and I: Traumatic Subjectivity and Public Identity

  Walter A. Davis

  pp. 82-88

• Romantic Psychoanalysis: The Burden of the Mystery Joel Faflak Suny Press, Albany, NY, 2008, cloth, 319pp., $85.00, ISBN: 978-0791472699

  Erin M. Goss

  pp. 103-106

• Subject to Delusions: Narcissism, Modernism, Gender Rupprecht, Caroline Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois, 2006, 224pp., $24.95, ISBN: 0810122359

  Gustav Arnold

  pp. 106-108

Field Note

• The Land of Big Queers: A Fairy's Tale (To Be Read Aloud then Discarded Just as Quickly)

  G. Keilan Rickard

  pp. 89-99

Book Reviews

• Evil Incarnate: Rumours of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History David Frankfurter Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2006, paper, 304pp., $19.95, ISBN: 978-0691136295

  Sue Grand

  pp. 100-103

Original Article

• Constructing the Enemy-Other: Anxiety, Trauma and Mourning in the Narratives of Political Conflict

  Jeffrey Stevenson Murer

  pp. 109-130

• Ideology, Psyche and the Historical Significance of 9/11

  Nancy Caro Hollander

  pp. 171-182

• Ideology and Identity: A Psychoanalytic Investigation of a Social Phenomenon

  R. D. Hinshelwood

  pp. 131-148

• Psychoanalysis and Ideology: Comment on R.D. Hinshelwood

  Yannis Stavrakakis

  pp. 149-163

• Subjectivity, Identity and 300 Spartans

  Stacey Scriver

  pp. 183-199

• Teaching the Rhetoric of Resistance: The Popular Holocaust and Social Change in a Post-9/11 World Robert Samuels Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2007, xi+178pp. hardcover, $69.95, ISBN: 023060272X

  Murray M. Schwartz

  pp. 210-212

Commentary

• Killing and Dying for the Sacred Object: Commentary on R.D. Hinshelwood, ‘Ideology and Identity: A Psychoanalytic Investigation of a Social Phenomenon’

  Richard Koenigsberg

  pp. 164-170

Field Note

• ‘I Felt a Funeral in My Brain’: The Politics of Representation in HBO's Six Feet Under

  Sophie Smith

  pp. 200-206

Book Reviews

• Socio-Ideological Fantasy and the Northern Ireland Conflict: The other Side Adrian Millar University of Manchester Press, Manchester, 2006, hardcover, 256 pp., Cover Price: $85.00, ISBN: 0719066964

  Jeffrey Stevenson Murer

  pp. 207-209

Original Article

• Social Class and its Reproduction in Immigrants' Construction of Self

  Ricardo C. Ainslie

  pp. 213-224

• Analysis of an Undocumented Latina Immigrant

  Jennifer McCarroll

  pp. 225-236

• The Immigrant's Real and Imagined Return Home

  Pratyusha Tummala-Narra

  pp. 237-252

• Friendship, Socialization, and the Immigrant Experience

  Salman Akhtar

  pp. 253-272

• Thinking through Others: Cultural Psychology and the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Immigrants

  Andrew Harlem

  pp. 273-288

• Psychoanalysis and the Argentine Economic Crisis of 2001: Interview with Nancy Hollander

  Janice Haaken

  pp. 303-310

• Review of Lost Causes: Historical Consciousness in Victorian Literature Jason B. Jones Ohio State University Press, Columbus, OH, 2006, paperback, 134pp., $22.95, ISBN: 0814251560

  Carolyn Betensky

  pp. 313-315

Field Note

• Making Connections: Ethno-Mimesis, Migration and Diaspora

  Maggie O'Neill

  pp. 289-302

Book Review

• The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz Riverhead Books, New York, 2007, Cover Price, 340pp., $14.00, ISBN: 978-1594483295

  Kris Yi

  pp. 311-312

Original Article

• Ganesha's Lessons for Psychoanalysis: Notes on Fathers and Sons, Sexuality and Death

  Barnaby B. Barratt

  pp. 317-336

• ‘Perfect in its Principles’: Psychoanalytic Praxis at Ernst Simmel's Schloss Tegel

  Elizabeth Ann Danto

  pp. 337-349

• The Case of John: A Generation Gap in the Clinical Dyad

  Scott D. Pytluk

  pp. 350-355

• Of Love and Age: A Commentary on Scott Pytluk's “The Case of John”

  Deborah Anna Luepnitz

  pp. 356-359

• On the Outside Looking in (And Not Liking What he Sees): A Commentary on Scott Pyltuk's “The case of John”

  Andy Suth

  pp. 360-365

• A Commentary on Scott Pytluk's “The Case of John”

  Kenneth M. Maguire

  pp. 366-370

• “Careful What You Wish For”: Reply to Commentaries

  Scott D. Pytluk

  pp. 371-374

• Ian Suttie's Matriarchy: A Feminist Utopia?

  Gal Gerson

  pp. 375-392

• Why Return to Bedford Falls? A Contribution to Understanding the Enduring Appeal of the Film It's a Wonderful Life

  Mark Cohen

  pp. 393-405

• Masculinity, Psychoanalysis, Straight Queer Theory: Essays on Abjection in Literature, Mass Culture, and Film Calvin Thomas Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2009, 240 pp., cloth, $74.95, ISBN: 978-0230600089

  Fintan Walsh

  pp. 425-426

Field Note

• Female Genital Mutilation: Insider/Outsider Discourses and the Politics of Judgment

  Dana J. Lehman & Sanjay R. Nath

  pp. 406-413

Book Review Essay

• Diagnosis: Disordered: The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders Peter Conrad Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD, 2007, 224 pp., cloth $40.00; ppk $20.00, ISBN: 978-0801885846; ISBN: 978-0801885853 The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield Oxford University Press, New York, 2007, 312 pp., cloth, $31.95, ISBN: 978-0195313048 Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness Christopher Lane Yale University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007, 272 pp., cloth $27.50; ppk. $18.00, ISBN: 978-0300124460; ISBN: 978-0300143171

  Brian McGrath

  pp. 414-421

Book Review

• Intimacies Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2008, 125 pp., cloth, $20.00, ISBN: 0-226-04351-7

  Steven Groarke

  pp. 422-424