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Everyday Analysis is a psychoanalytic pamphlet house publishing theoretical interventions and occasionally poetry and prose which explores psychoanalytic themes. Everyday Analysis hosts a monthly London reading group and quarterly online courses in psychoanalysis.

LIGHT OF THE DARK: DERRIDA, BARTHES, CELAN
Jean-Michel Rabaté
Derrida’s essay “Aletheia” discusses the work of Japanese photographer Kishin Shinoyama. Reading Derrida, Rabaté investigates how, behind the classical concept of truth as a beautiful naked woman, Derrida argues that any photographic image tells the Truth, but a truth obscured as it comes to light: “nothing is more black than the visibility of light.” Staging a critical conversation with Roland Barthes’s theses in Camera Lucida and Paul Celan’s poems from Breathturn to Lightduress, Rabaté argues for a theoretical approach to truth that counters the prevailing truth-discourses of today. 


THE EXTINCTION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
Massimo Recalcati

translated by Filippo Scafi
In its first English translation, THE EXTINCTION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS, Italian psychoanalyst Massimo Recalcati considers the question of psychosis. Against those who sought to break from the unconscious - such as Deleuze - Recalcati argues that to do so would lead only to psychosis.

THIS IS A PRE-ORDER - the pamphlet will be published in December 2025.




CONFESSIONS OF A CLASS REDUCTIONIST
Ben Burgis
In these essays, Ben Burgis criticizes fashionable radical-liberal identity politics and makes the case for universalism about rights and an unabashedly “class-first” approach to socialist political strategy. This may sound to some ears like a call for abandoning marginalized people. On the contrary, he argues, focusing on economic inequality empowers the victims of bigotry and retrograde social practices the resources and material security to stand up for themselves far more effectively than any diversity trainer or “anti-racism” consultant could represent their interests. As we face a rising tide of reactionary authoritarianism, it’s more important than ever to ditch the identitarian pieties of the recent past and think hard about how the Left can actually win.


THE DIALECTICS OF AUTHORITARIAN REASON
Robert Pfaller
How can we understand the fact that, within such a short time, the discourse of sexual liberation turned into that of sexual harassment, or or how a party that had its origins in the peace movement in the 1980s (like the German Green Party) perverted itself into a party of moralist warmongers?

To answer these and similar questions, this new pamphlet by the legendary Austrian philosopher Robert Pfaller argues that while Adorno and Horkheimer suspected reason to contain a moment of immanent violence, we might be better served to suspect antiauthoritarianism to contain a moment of immanent obstruction against autonomy.

THIS IS A PRE-ORDER - the pamphlet will be published in 2026.

THE COMPLETION
Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi
In The Completion, legendary philosopher Franco 'Bifo' Berardi offers his analysis of cognitive automation and artificial intelligence. Of the possible worlds imagined in Silicon Valley and in the media discourse around tech boosterism, none will likely materialise. Instead, the unpredictable will intervene in the future of predictive technology. 

In this new edition, in a new venture for Everyday Analysis, Berardi's essay is accompanied by an introduction by Alfie Bown and a series of artworks and illustrations, new and historic- from Borges's labyrinths to the I-ching - offering a reading experience in the spirit of Berardi's work. 

YOUR LIFE IS NOT A (FUCKING) STORY
Simon Critchley
In this new collected edition of his recent articles, Simon Critchley - one of the most important living philosophers - takes us through his reflections on death, questions of doubt and reason, the legacy of David Bowie, the nature of fear and empathy in a broken society and a critique of narrative identity - among other things. YOUR LIFE IS NOT A STORY explores the contemporary world and its psychological impact on us, offering us a way to see our situation different and resist its tricks and contrivances.

THE PSYCHOANALYST AND THE ARTIST
Jamieson Webster
In these essays, New York psychoanalyst and author Jamieson Webster considers the relationship between the studio and the psychoanalyst's couch. From the scopophilic instinct of the viewer and the artist's anticipation of it to the pursuit of perfection and it's connection to the girl-child's curiosity about her mother's body, she asks us to think about art and analysis as connected practices. Focusing on Carroll Dunham and Louise Bourgeois, she argues for an embrace of our wildest symptoms in theory and in art.

BODIES TO WEAR: FOUR LACANIAN TAKES ON TRANS
Patricia Gherovici
This pamphlet takes as a model Jacques Lacan’s 1964 seminar in which he presented four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis, the unconscious, repetition, the transference, and the drive.[i] In a similar manner, it reflects on some key concepts that underpin the author's clinical work as a psychoanalyst with trans-identified analysands. It argues for the re-discovery of four terms that expand Lacan’s central insights and apply to the question of trans today.