Traumatic events happen in every age, yet there is a particularly cataclysmic feeling to our own epoch that is so attractive to some and so terrifying to others. The terrible events of September 11th 2001 still resonate and the repercussions continue to this day: the desperation of immigrants fleeing terror, the uncertainty of Brexit, Donald Trump in the White House, the rise of the alt-right and hard left, increasing fundamentalism, and terror groups intent on causing destruction to the Western way of life. If that were not enough, we also have to grapple with the enormity of climate change and the charge that if we do not act now, it will be too late. Is it any wonder many are left overwhelmed by the events they see on the news? Galvanised by the events outside of his consulting room, in 2015, David Morgan began The Political Mind seminars at the British Psychoanalytical Society and their successful run continues today. A series of superlative seminars, mostly presented by colleagues from the British Society plus a few select external experts, that examine a dazzling array of relevant topics to provide a psychoanalytic understanding of just what is going on in our world. This book is the first in The Political Mind series to bring these seminars to a wider audience. The Unconscious in Political and Social Life contains compelling contributions from Christopher Bollas, Michael Rustin, Jonathan Sklar, David Bell, Philip Stokoe, Roger Kennedy, David Morgan, M. Fakhry Davids, Ruth McCall, R. D. Hinshelwood, Renée Danziger, Josh Cohen, Sally Weintrobe, and Margot Waddell. They investigate so many vital issues affecting us today: the evolution of democracy, right-wing populism, prejudice, the rise of the far right, attitudes to refugees and migrants, neoliberalism, fundamentalism, terrorism, the Palestine-Israel situation, political change, feminism, austerity in the UK, financial globalisation, and climate change. This book needs to be read by all who are concerned by the state of the world today. Psychoanalysis and psychoanalysts with their awareness of what motivates human beings bring clarity and fresh insight to these matters. A deeper understanding of humanity awaits the reader of The Unconscious in Political and Social Life.
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A fascinating collection that casts a psychoanalytic lens over what is happening in today’s world with the rise of fundamentalism, prejudice, fascism, and neoliberalism.
FOREWORD Virginia Ungar INTRODUCTION David Morgan CHAPTER ONE Where have all the adults gone? Philip Stokoe CHAPTER TWO The democratic state of mind Christopher Bollas CHAPTER THREE Understanding right-wing populism Michael Rustin CHAPTER FOUR Europe in dark times: some dynamics in alterity and prejudice Jonathan Sklar CHAPTER FIVE Neoliberalism is bad for your mental health David Bell CHAPTER SIX Toleration of Strangers Roger Kennedy CHAPTER SEVEN Inflammatory projective identification in fundamentalist religious and economic terrorism David Morgan CHAPTER EIGHT Psychoanalysis and Palestine-Israel: a personal angle M. Fakhry Davids CHAPTER NINE Psychoanalysis and feminism: a modern perspective Ruth McCall CHAPTER TEN Reflection or action: and never the twain shall meet R. D. Hinshelwood CHAPTER ELEVEN “We’re all in it together”: austerity’s myth Renée Danziger CHAPTER TWELVE A psycho-politics of the slacker Josh Cohen CHAPTER THIRTEEN Climate change: the moral dimension Sally Weintrobe CHAPTER FOURTEEN Managing difficult children: psychoanalysis, welfare policy, and the ‘social sector’ Steven Groarke INDEX
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This excellent book is a must for analysts and for readers interested in understanding our troubled world in a contemporary frame. […It] shows that psychoanalysis has to take an ethical stance when confronted with the dehumanisation tendency in our contemporary world.
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ISBN
9781912691173
Publisert
2019-07-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Phoenix Publishing House
Vekt
512 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
23 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.