Psychoanalytic Culture: Genealogies of Complex Subjectivity
Autor Ian Parkeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 dec 2026
This updated edition delves into the intricate relationship between psychoanalysis and cultural discourse, examining how psychoanalytic ideas have evolved and permeated everyday life. Ian Parker provides a comprehensive overview of three main traditions in psychoanalysis, while critically analysing their impact on identity, belief systems, and societal structures. The book highlights the ways psychoanalysis operates as both a tool for self-knowledge and a cultural phenomenon, revealing its contradictions and complexities. The updated edition engages with the global spread of psychoanalysis and gives attention to questions of therapeutic culture and cultural domination. By integrating insights from different domains of critical and social theory, Parker offers a nuanced critique of psychoanalytic practices and their role in shaping modern subjectivity.
This book is essential reading for scholars, students, and practitioners in psychology, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, cultural studies, and critical theory. It will also appeal to anyone interested in understanding the pervasive influence of psychoanalytic thought on Western culture and its implications for personal and collective identity.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781041402541
ISBN-10: 1041402546
Pagini: 298
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1041402546
Pagini: 298
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate AdvancedCuprins
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Psychoanalysis, exterior and interior
Chapter 1. Object relations in groups: Populist nationalism and identity
Chapter 2. Religious belief, charity and crooked cures
Chapter 3. War breaking out, in inner and outer space
Chapter 4. Critical theory, individuality, enlightenment and the psy-complex
Chapter 5. Authoritarianism and masculinity: Forever Jung in the manosphere
Chapter 6. Cultures of narcissism and nature: Naturism after enlightenment
Chapter 7. The symbolic, deferred action and the real in cyberspace
Chapter 8. Mirroring: Analysing or escaping the ‘local economy’ with Althusser and Kristeva
Chapter 9. Psychoanalytic clinical practice now: Therapeutic culture in action
References
Introduction: Psychoanalysis, exterior and interior
Chapter 1. Object relations in groups: Populist nationalism and identity
Chapter 2. Religious belief, charity and crooked cures
Chapter 3. War breaking out, in inner and outer space
Chapter 4. Critical theory, individuality, enlightenment and the psy-complex
Chapter 5. Authoritarianism and masculinity: Forever Jung in the manosphere
Chapter 6. Cultures of narcissism and nature: Naturism after enlightenment
Chapter 7. The symbolic, deferred action and the real in cyberspace
Chapter 8. Mirroring: Analysing or escaping the ‘local economy’ with Althusser and Kristeva
Chapter 9. Psychoanalytic clinical practice now: Therapeutic culture in action
References
Recenzii
“A book that changed our understanding of the relationship between psychoanalysis and cultural theory, inspiring countless consequences for social critique and for the contemporary turn toward politics. Psychoanalysts have devoted themselves to interpreting the world; the time has come to transform it. This is the message and the call to action that the reader will find here.”
Christian Dunker, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
“It is common to regard psychoanalysis as universally valid, independent of culture, and therefore capable of explaining it. Some go further, recognising that the Freudian legacy is itself a product of modern European culture, reflecting a particular form of subjectivity. But one can go further still, to see that our culture is itself psychoanalytic, and that our subjectivity does not merely find expression in Freud's ideas —it is also determined by them. This is the insight that Ian Parker develops in this original and compelling book by exploring how psychoanalysis lies at the heart of our way of being, shaping the complex and contradictory ways in which we constitute and understand ourselves in modernity.”
David Pavón-Cuéllar, Universidad Michoacana, Mexico
Christian Dunker, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
“It is common to regard psychoanalysis as universally valid, independent of culture, and therefore capable of explaining it. Some go further, recognising that the Freudian legacy is itself a product of modern European culture, reflecting a particular form of subjectivity. But one can go further still, to see that our culture is itself psychoanalytic, and that our subjectivity does not merely find expression in Freud's ideas —it is also determined by them. This is the insight that Ian Parker develops in this original and compelling book by exploring how psychoanalysis lies at the heart of our way of being, shaping the complex and contradictory ways in which we constitute and understand ourselves in modernity.”
David Pavón-Cuéllar, Universidad Michoacana, Mexico
Notă biografică
Ian Parker is co-founder of the Discourse Unit and Managing Editor of Annual Review of Critical Psychology, author and editor of numerous books and articles about psychoanalysis, a practicing psychoanalyst and revolutionary Marxist.
Descriere
Psychoanalytic Culture explores how psychoanalysis has become deeply embedded in contemporary culture, shaping both individual subjectivity and collective understanding.