Laubender The Political Clinic

Psychoanalysis and Social Change in the Twentieth Century
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-231-56054-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 94

Reihe: New Directions in Critical Theory

Carolyn Laubender examines cases from Britain and its former colonies to show that clinical psychoanalytic practice constitutes a productive site for novel political thought, theorization, and action.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Laubender, Carolyn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Geschichte der Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: On Neutrality and Other Clinical Fictions
Part I. Democracy’s Children
1. On Good Authority: Anna Freud, Child Analysis, and the Politics of Authority
2. Beyond Repair: War, Reparation, and Justice in Melanie Klein’s Clinic
Part II. Empires of Mind: On Colonialism and Decolonization
3. Traveling Analysis: Wulf Sachs, Racial Justice, and the (De)colonial Clinic in South Africa
4. Dreaming of “Black Mummy”: Race, Gender, Decolonization, and D. W. Winnicott
Part III. From the Couch to the Iron Curtain: Psychoanalysis During the Cold War
5. The Communal Clinic: Therapeutic Communities, Heteronormativity, and the Cold War
6. Communists, Astronauts, and “Extreme Feminists”: John Bowlby and the Pursuit of (National) Security
Epilogue: Here, There, and Everywhere—Now
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Carolyn Laubender is an associate professor in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies and the founding codirector of the MA in Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Essex.