Psychoanalysis and Culture - Rosalind Minsky

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Contemporary States of Mind

Rosalind Minsky (Autor)

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2013
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-7456-7784-2 (ISBN)

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Written in a readable, accessible style, with plenty of up-to-date examples Psychoanalysis and Culture provides a brilliant introduction to key issues in the area of application of psychoanalytic theories to culture. The author argues that we cannot grasp the complexity of contemporary global issues without understanding some of the unconscious processes which underlie them. After introducing some major modern and postmodern psychoanalytic approaches, Minsky offers a broad-ranging critique of Lacan's theory of culture and the unconscious. She explores a range of crucial and topical questions: how should we explain women's historical subordination and what is now often seen as a crisis in male identity? What constitutes 'masculinity' apart from power and control? How important is the father, actually and symbolically in children's development in the context of lone-parent families? Why is contemporary culture often still so violent and destructive? Why is consumer culture so attractive to so many and why is it so difficult to put limits on economic growth in the interests of preventing environmental disaster?

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, women's studies, cultural studies, psychology and history as well as psychoanalytic studies. It will also appeal to the general reader interested in the psychology of cultural change.

Rosalind Minsky is the author of Psychoanalysis and Culture: Contemporary States of Mind, published by Wiley.

Preface.

Abbreviations.

Introduction.

Part One: Psychoanalytic Perspectives.

1. Freud: Sexuality and the Unconscious.

2. Klein: Phantasy and Reparation.

3. Winnicott: Creativity and the Nurturing Mother.

4. Lacan: the Unconscious as Language.

Part Two: Control or Containment?: Making Sense of
Experience.

5. Difference: the Fluidity of Gender.

6. Womb-envy and Women as 'Too Much of a Good Thing'.

7. The Psychical Significance of Fathers.

8. The Unconscious Roots of Violence.

9. Consuming 'Goods'.

10. Fragrant Theory and the Sweet Scent of Signifiers.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.

"In Psychoanalysis and Culture Rosalind Minsky provides an
engaging version of the theories of Freud, Klein, Winnicott, and
Lacan in making a passionate plea for their relevance to
understanding the otherwise often overwhelming-seeming alienation,
chaos, or complexity of thought and feeling involved in sex,
gender, violence, and consumerism in Europe and America at the
millennium." Professor Janet Sayers, University of Kent

"Rosalind Minsky has produced a comprehensive guide to some of
the major traditions of psychoanalytic theory, and impressively
develops an instructive and engaging dialogue between
psychoanalysis and cultural critique." Anthony Elliott,
University of Melbourne

"[This book] is intelligent, knowledgeable, creative, and
remarkably accessible. It lives up to its goal, which is to
speculate as to how psychoanalytic theories enable us to see
cultural problems more insightfully." Professor Suzanne Juhasz,
University of Colorado

"An appeal to those seeking to acquaint themselves with a range
of psychoanalytic ideas is clearly one of Minsky's principal
intentions throughout the book. and she succeeds admirably. Her
writing is clear and accessible and the book could stand as a
useful introductory text on her key theorists and the similarities
and differences between the two major schools of psychoanalysis:
Freudian and object-relations" B. Nicol, University College
Chichester, Psychoanalytic Studies

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.4.2013
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
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ISBN-10	0-7456-7784-3 / 0745677843
ISBN-13	978-0-7456-7784-2 / 9780745677842

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