Building on the bestselling The Unconscious in Social and Political Life, the first book in the Political Minds series, A Deeper Cut investigates such vital issues as left and right populisms, colonialism and racism, social care for the mentally ill, manipulation of the masses in the third world, Alice Miller on family politics, diversity, Orwellian thinking, trade unions, religious fundamentalism, NHS politics, activism, and tyranny. Featuring compelling contributions from Lord John Alderdice, Elizabeth Cotton, Tomasz Fortuna, Stephen Frosh, Samir Gandesha, Mary Joan Gerson, Liz Greenway, Roger Hartley, Luisa Passalacqua, Kate Pugh, Marco Puricelli, Edgard Sanchez Bernal, Elisabeth Skale, Mark Stein, and Margot Waddell. Galvanised by events outside of his consulting room, David Morgan began The Political Mind seminars at the British Psychoanalytical Society in 2015 and their successful run continues today. A series of superlative seminars that examine the effects of the current upheaval going on worldwide, this book is the second to bring these seminars from leading thinkers to a wider audience. Leading politicians, writers, educators, psychoanalysts, psychologists, philosophers, psychotherapists, and psychologists are gathered together in this fascinating volume that investigates social upheaval on the worldwide stage. Stimulating and thought-provoking, this is a must-read for every citizen asking just what is happening in the world today.
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Providing a continuing deeper understanding of world events and humanity itself to all those concerned by the state of the modern world.
INTRODUCTION David Morgan CHAPTER ONE Understanding right and left populisms Samir Gandesha CHAPTER TWO “Ill fares the land”: reflections on The Merchant of Venice—a tale for modern times Margot Waddell CHAPTER THREE Psychoanalysis, colonialism, racism Stephen Frosh CHAPTER FOUR Consultancy on deregistration to a care home for the long-stay mentally ill: you can take Stig out of the dump, but can you take the dump out of Stig? Liz Greenway CHAPTER FIVE Power and the manipulation of the masses: Third World perspectives Edgard Sanchez Bernal CHAPTER SIX Whistle-blowers—moral good or self-interest? The psychological dimensions of defying a perverse or corrupt authority David Morgan CHAPTER SEVEN Alice Miller on family, power, and truth Luisa Passalacqua and Marco Puricelli CHAPTER EIGHT Diversity: notes from the inside and from the outside Tomasz Fortuna CHAPTER NINE George Orwell: politics and the avoidance of reality Roger Hartley CHAPTER TEN In the union: the psychodynamics of solidarity Elizabeth Cotton CHAPTER ELEVEN On the psychology of religious fundamentalism Lord John Alderdice CHAPTER TWELVE The politics of NHS psychiatry Kate Pugh CHAPTER THIRTEEN Psychoanalytic activism: historical perspective and subjective conundrums Mary-Joan Gerson CHAPTER FOURTEEN The rise of the new right: psychoanalytic perspectives Elisabeth Skale CHAPTER FIFTEEN Lord of the flies: a psychoanalytic view of the gang and its processes (Winner of the 2020 Gavin Macfadyen Memorial Essay Prize) Mark Stein INDEX
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A Deeper Cut, with its studies of race, anti-Semitism, populism, and the New Right, illuminates the power of the unconscious in group life. It shows that psychoanalysis, once relegated to therapeutic practice, has become an exciting form of social thought.
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ISBN
9781912691197
Publisert
2020-11-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Phoenix Publishing House
Vekt
456 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
318

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Biographical note

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.