Narcissism, Melancholia and the Subject of Community

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-87648-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 281 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 381 g

Reihe: Studies in the Psychosocial

This book brings together the work of scholars and writer-practitioners of psychoanalysis to consider the legacy of two of Sigmund Freud's most important metapsychological papers: 'On Narcissism: An Introduction' (1914) and 'Mourning and Melancholia' (1917 [1915]).  These twin papers, conceived in the context of unprecedented social and political turmoil, mark a point in Freud’s metapsychological project wherein the themes of loss and of psychic violence were becoming incontrovertible facts in the story of subject formation. 
Taking as their concern the difficulty of setting apart the ‘inner’ and the ‘outer’ worlds, as well as the difficulty of preserving an image of the coherently boundaried subject, the psychoanalytic frameworks of narcissism and melancholia provide the background coordinates for the volume’s contributors to analyse contemporary subjectivities in new psychosocial contexts. This collection will be of great interest to all scholars and practitioners of psychoanalysis and the psychotherapies, social and cultural theory, gender and sexuality studies, politics, and psychosocial studies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walsh, Julie

Sheils, Barry

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction:  Narcissism, Melancholia and the Subject of Community; Barry Sheils and Julie Walsh.- 2. Narcissism and Melancholia from the Psychoanalytical Perspective of Object Relations; Michael Rustin.- 3. Narcissism through the Digital Looking Glass; Jay Watts.- 4. Something to do with a girl named Marla Singer: Capitalism, Narcissism, and Therapeutic Discourse in David Fincher’s Fight Club; Lynne Layton.- 5. Melancholia, the death drive and Into the Wild; Derek Hook.- 6. The Monster in the Mirror: Theoretical and Clinical Reflections on Primary Narcissism and Melancholia; Dorothée Bonnigal-Katz.- 7. Shame, Pain and Melancholia for the Australian Constitution; Juliet B. Rogers.- 8. Dr Fanon on Colonial Narcissism and Anti-Colonial Melancholia; Colin Wright.- 9. This Nothing Held in Common: Towards a Theory of Activism Beyond the Community of One; Barry Watt.- 10. Neurotic and Paranoid Citizens; Stephen Frosh.- 11. Narcissism, Melancholia and the Exhaustion of the‘Journeying’ Subject; Anastasios Gaitanidis.

Über Autor(innen)

Barry Sheils is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies at Durham University, UK.
Julie Walsh is a lecturer in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, UK, and a psychoanalytic therapist in London.