Research Catalog

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Description

1. x, 290 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

1. "Ian Parker systematically reviews key psychoanalytic theories to reveal social processes and their significance to modern life: Freud and object relations theory is directed towards group processes, religion and war; the Frankfurt School is used to examine individuality, authoritarianism and changes in culture; and the Lacanian tradition to account for language, representation and self-improvement. The theoretical analysis incorporates throughout the volume the work of figures ranging from Adorno, Habermas and Fromm to Klein, Kristeva, Winnicott and Zizek." "Psychoanalytic Culture will be essential reading for students and academics in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, psychology, sociology and cultural studies."--Jacket

Subject

1. Psychoanalysis and culture
2. Psychoanalysis > Social aspects
3. Gesellschaft
4. Psychoanalyse
5. Psychoanalyse
6. Psychotherapie
7. Interculturele vergelijking
8. Discourse analysis

Contents

1. Pt I: Object relations theories: self and society: Groups, identity and forms of knowledge -- Relgious belief, charity and crooked cures -- War breaking out, in inner and outer space -- Pt II: Critical theories: individuality and culture: Individuality, enlightenment and the psy-complex -- Authoritarianism, ideology and masculinity -- Culture and nature after enlightenment -- Pt III: Post-Theories: subjectivity and the social: Symbolic orders, subjects and cyberspace -- Mirroring, imaging and escaping the local economy -- Real things and therapy.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-276) and index.