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Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics

Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics is a research topic within Clinical Psychology. Science Explorer counts 5.2k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of psychoanalysis and politics, delving into topics such as subjectivity, desire, ethics, resistance, and the influence of capitalism and neoliberalism. It also discusses the application of Lacanian Discourse Analysis in psychology and examines the cultural criminological perspective on deviant leisure. The papers critically analyze the political implications of psychoanalytic theories and their relevance in understanding contemporary societal issues.

  • Psychoanalysis
  • Politics
  • Lacanian Discourse Analysis
  • Subjectivity
  • Desire
  • Ethics
  • Capitalism
  • Resistance
  • Neoliberalism
  • Cultural Criminology
Research works
5.2k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
513
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics

Which countries lead Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (265 and 117 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 265 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 117 works
  3. 3 Brazil 78 works
  4. 4 Germany 44 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 40 works
  6. 6 Canada 39 works
  7. 7 Australia 35 works
  8. 8 China 33 works
  9. 9 India 24 works
  10. 10 Spain 22 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 38.0%United Kingdom: 16.8%Brazil: 11.2%Germany: 6.3%6 others listed: 27.7%38%largest
United States265 · 38.0%United Kingdom117 · 16.8%Brazil78 · 11.2%Germany44 · 6.3%6 others listed193 · 27.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics research?

By volume in 2022-now, City University of New York publishes the most Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics research, followed by Universidade de São Paulo and SUNY Fredonia.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 City University of New YorkUnited States 9 works
  2. 2 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 8 works
  3. 3 SUNY FredoniaUnited States 7 works
  4. 4 York UniversityCanada 6 works
  5. 5 University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 6 works
  6. 6 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 6 works
  7. 7 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 6 works
  8. 8 Bezalel Academy of Arts and DesignIsrael 5 works
  9. 9 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 5 works
  10. 10 Film IndependentUnited States 4 works

Who are the leading researchers in Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics include Michel Foucault, Michael J. Mack and Noam Chomsky.

  1. 1 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  2. 2 Michael J. Mack United States 154k citations
  3. 3 Noam Chomsky United States 141k citations
  4. 4 Norman K. Denzin United States 130k citations
  5. 5 Judith Butler United States 116k citations
  6. 6 Sigmund Freud Brazil 97k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics?

The most cited paper in Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics is "The Force of Things" (Jane Foress Bennett, 2004), with 858 citations. Next come "The Terrorist Threat" (666) and "Death without weeping: the violence of everyday life in Brazil" (600).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Force of Things Jane Foress Bennett · Political Theory 27 May 2004 858
2 The Terrorist Threat Ulrich Beck · Theory Culture & Society Aug 2002 666
3 Death without weeping: the violence of everyday life in Brazil Nancy May Flowers · Cadernos de Saúde Pública Open access Jun 1992 600
4 Paradox and Counterparadox Albert E. Scheflen · The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Jun 1979 520
5 “When perhaps the real problem is money itself!”: the practical materiality of Bitcoin Bill Maurer, Taylor C. Nelms, Lana Swartz · Social Semiotics Open access 12 Mar 2013 469
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Where is Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics research done?

The largest centres of Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), São Paulo (Brazil) and Toronto (Canada). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in New York and London.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 30 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 24 works
  3. 3 São PauloBrazil 15 works
  4. 4 TorontoCanada 14 works
  5. 5 Washington D.C.United States 11 works
  6. 6 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 11 works
  7. 7 Los AngelesUnited States 11 works
  8. 8 AnkaraTürkiye 11 works
  9. 9 MelbourneAustralia 9 works
  10. 10 IstanbulTürkiye 8 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. New YorkUS · 23.7 works3.5×
  2. LondonGB · 30.3 works3.4×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics?

Among universities, judged by research, City University of New York score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1City University of New YorkUnited States 4.39.0%19.2×9 -2.6%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics, country by country

Is Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2018.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0035% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics0.0039% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics9.3% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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