The Unconscious in Social and Political Life
Phoenix Publishing House (Verlag)
978-1-912691-17-3 (ISBN)
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Traumatic events happen in every age, yet there is a particularly cataclysmic feeling to our own epoch that is so attractive to some and so terrifying to others. The terrible events of September 11th 2001 still resonate and the repercussions continue to this day: the desperation of immigrants fleeing terror, the uncertainty of Brexit, Donald Trump in the White House, the rise of the alt-right and hard left, increasing fundamentalism, and terror groups intent on causing destruction to the Western way of life. If that were not enough, we also have to grapple with the enormity of climate change and the charge that if we do not act now, it will be too late. Is it any wonder many are left overwhelmed by the events they see on the news?
Galvanised by the events outside of his consulting room, in 2015, David Morgan began The Political Mind seminars at the British Psychoanalytical Society and their successful run continues today. A series of superlative seminars, mostly presented by colleagues from the British Society plus a few select external experts, that examine a dazzling array of relevant topics to provide a psychoanalytic understanding of just what is going on in our world. This book is the first in The Political Mind series to bring these seminars to a wider audience.
The Unconscious in Political and Social Life contains compelling contributions from Christopher Bollas, Michael Rustin, Jonathan Sklar, David Bell, Philip Stokoe, Roger Kennedy, David Morgan, M. Fakhry Davids, Ruth McCall, R. D. Hinshelwood, Renée Danziger, Josh Cohen, Sally Weintrobe, and Margot Waddell. They investigate so many vital issues affecting us today: the evolution of democracy, right-wing populism, prejudice, the rise of the far right, attitudes to refugees and migrants, neoliberalism, fundamentalism, terrorism, the Palestine-Israel situation, political change, feminism, austerity in the UK, financial globalisation, and climate change.
This book needs to be read by all who are concerned by the state of the world today. Psychoanalysis and psychoanalysts with their awareness of what motivates human beings bring clarity and fresh insight to these matters. A deeper understanding of humanity awaits the reader of The Unconscious in Political and Social Life.
David Morgan is a consultant psychotherapist and psychoanalyst fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He is also a training analyst supervisor at the British Psychoanalytic Association, and a lecturer recognised nationally and internationally. He co-edited Violence, Delinquency and Perversion (2007) and has authored many publications and chapters, most recently ‘Inflammatory Projective Identification in Political and Economic Terrorism’ in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (2018), as well as ‘The Return of the Oppressed’, a speech given at the Warsaw EPF Conference (2018). He is currently a director of Public Interest Psychology Ltd as well as a member of the IPA committee on Humanitarian Organisations. He has been the chair of ‘Political Minds & Frontier Psychoanalyst’, a radio broadcast series on Resonance FM.
FOREWORD
Virginia Ungar
INTRODUCTION
David Morgan
CHAPTER ONE
Where have all the adults gone?
Philip Stokoe
CHAPTER TWO
The democratic state of mind
Christopher Bollas
CHAPTER THREE
Understanding right-wing populism
Michael Rustin
CHAPTER FOUR
Europe in dark times: some dynamics in alterity and prejudice
Jonathan Sklar
CHAPTER FIVE
Neoliberalism is bad for your mental health
David Bell
CHAPTER SIX
Toleration of Strangers
Roger Kennedy
CHAPTER SEVEN
Inflammatory projective identification in fundamentalist religious and economic terrorism
David Morgan
CHAPTER EIGHT
Psychoanalysis and Palestine-Israel: a personal angle
M. Fakhry Davids
CHAPTER NINE
Psychoanalysis and feminism: a modern perspective
Ruth McCall
CHAPTER TEN
Reflection or action: and never the twain shall meet
R. D. Hinshelwood
CHAPTER ELEVEN
“We’re all in it together”: austerity’s myth
Renée Danziger
CHAPTER TWELVE
A psycho-politics of the slacker
Josh Cohen
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Climate change: the moral dimension
Sally Weintrobe
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Managing difficult children: psychoanalysis, welfare policy, and the ‘social sector’
Steven Groarke
INDEX
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | The Political Mind |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 512 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-912691-17-5 / 1912691175 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-912691-17-3 / 9781912691173 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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