Culture and the Unconscious

2007
ISBN: 978-1-4039-8622-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 479 g

This collection sheds light on how cultural questions can be addressed through a dialogue between psychoanalytic clinical and academic traditions. With accessible introductions to its central themes, the book opens up conversations between the spheres of art, academia and psychoanalysis, revealing points of commonality and divergence.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bainbridge, C.

Yates, Candida

Radstone, Susannah

Rustin, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors Introduction: Culture and the Unconscious: Framing the Debate; M.Rustin PART 1: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND CULTURE: HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL ENCOUNTERS Introduction: S.Radstone A City of Souls and the Soul of the City: Alfred Döblin and the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute; V.Fuechtner A New Naturalism: On the Origins of Psychoanalysis as a Social Theory of Subjectivity; K.Figlio The Unconscious and Others: Rescue, Inclusivity and the Eroticisation of Difference in 1930s Vienna; M.Nava Psychoanalysis and Culture in Secular Times; M.Rustin Thinking Art and Psychoanalysis; J.Sayers Michel de Certeau and the Possibilities of Psychoanalytic Cultural Studies; B.Highmore PART 2: CULTURE AND TRAUMA AS WORKING THROUGH Introduction: C.Bainbridge & C.Yates Everything to Play For: Masculinity, Trauma and the Pleasures of DVD Technologies; C.Bainbridge & C.Yates Landscape After Ruins; P.Cohen "Father, Can't You See I'm Burning?" Trauma, Ethics and the Possibility of Community in J.M.Coetzee's 'Age of Iron'; S.Durrant Film, Feminism and Melanie Klein: 'Weird Lullabies'; S.Gordon PART 3: THE VIEW FROM THE CLINIC Introduction Reality and Unreality in Fact and Fiction; R.Britton The Idealisation of a Lost Object in Julietta and in Clinical Work; D.Hindle & S.Godsil Grief in the Mother's Eyes: A Search for Identity; M.Reid Forever Young: Not Psychoanalysing Bob Dylan; M.Lawrence & G.Pearson Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Dionysiac and the Apollonian in Euripides' Bacchae; D.Bell Clinical and Academic Psychoanalytic Criticism: Differences That Matter; S.Radstone Index

Über Autor(innen)

DAVID BELL is Consultant Medical Psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic, London, UK and a Psychoanalyst
RON BRITTON is President of The British Psychoanalytical Society, UK and the Vice-President of the International Psychoanalytical Association
PHIL COHEN is Director of the London East Research Institute (UEL), UK
SAM DURRANT is a Lecturer in English, Leeds University, UK
KARL FIGLIO is Director and Professor, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK
VERONIKA FUECHTNER is Assistant Professor of German at Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
SUSIE GODSIL is Consultant Adult Psychotherapist, NHS Specialist Psychotherapy Service, UK
SUZY GORDON is Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader, Film Studies, School of Cultural Studies, University of the West of England, UK
BEN HIGHMORE is Reader in Cultural Studies, University of the West of England, UK
DEBBIE HINDLE is Organizing Tutor for the Clinical Training in Child Psychotherapy, Scottish Institute of Human Relations, Edinburgh and Lead Clinician in Child Psychotherapy, Yorkhill NHS Trust, UK
MARILYN LAWRENCE is a Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, UK
MICA NAVA is Professor of Cultural Studies, University of East London, UK
GEOFFREY PEARSON is Professor of Criminology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
MARGUERITE REID is Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, UK
JANET SAYERS is Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK