psychoanalysis

Drag Education: RuPaul, Queer Theory, and the Politics of Teaching

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FORTHCOMING Winter 2027

“I think of myself as less of a judge and more of a teacher.” So said the Queen of Drag, RuPaul Andre Charles, on the second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race—the Emmy Award-winning reality show competition that cemented RuPaul’s status as the most influential drag queen in the world. Via her international and still-expanding Drag[…]

The Case of California (New Edition)

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FORTHCOMING Fall 2025

Focusing on the changing image of the West Coast through such varied social and cultural artifacts as bodybuilding, group therapy, suicide cults, Marilyn Monroe, milk-carton images of missing children, orgies, Mickey Mouse, zombies, teenage slang, shock therapy, and surf music, The Case of California offers a dizzying psycho-history of the twentieth century as crystallized in[…]

Writing in the Kitchen with Martha Rosler and Carrie Mae Weems: From Reproductive Labor to the Affective Labor of the Image

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FORTHCOMING Winter 2026

What do images have to do with the stubborn perception that women are naturally and fundamentally mothers? How can artwork aligned with feminism teach us to see women differently? In Writing in the Kitchen with Martha Rosler and Carrie Mae Weems: From Reproductive Labor to the Affective Labor of the Image, Kimberly Lamm explores these[…]

Autotheory and Its Others

FORTHCOMING Winter 2026

Ever since Maggie Nelson’s Argonauts gave the word fresh currency a decade ago, autotheory has infiltrated scholarly, literary, and artistic practices. Autotheory and Its Others contributes to this nascent metacritical conversation. An inclusive discourse, autotheory embraces its uncanny double, allotheory, and, thus, this collection invites to the table a host of uncanny others: psychoanalysis, queer[…]

Oblation: Essays, Parables, Paradoxes

Published: 11/06/2024

Elements of this book, Oblation: Essays, Parables, Paradoxes, defy reason. They do so for good reason. Much of what we do, much of what we think, is oblation: sacrifice, offering, to something or someone. The root of “oblation” is “to draw near” or “to dwell in.” It refers to what is brought unto the altar,[…]

Inner Conflicts

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FORTHCOMING Winter 2025

What should I do? What is the right thing to do? What do I do when I don’t know what to do? The difficulty in answering these questions does not come from a lack of knowledge but a deeper problem that requires us to look inward (and outward). Inner Conflicts is an antidote to the[…]

Wilhelm Reich versus the Flying Saucers: An American Tragedy

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Published: 06/27/2024

The convenient myth of Wilhelm Reich is that he “lost his mind” in the early 1950s, if not before, and that the last seven years of his life and work—the orgone and radiation experiments, the cloudbuster, and flying saucer intrigues—present an embarrassment. Even the counterculture that embraced Reich, not least William S. Burroughs, Norman Mailer,[…]