Psychoanalysis, culture and social action: act signatures of the unconscious

Dieter Flader explores how current social and cultural concerns are connected to the unconscious, and how this affects our responses to them. Flader focuses on the role of the ego, assessing how our feelings about these issues in adulthood grow from childhood fears and desires, and integrating the e...

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Beteilige Person: Flader, Dieter 1944- (VerfasserIn)
Weitere beteiligte Personen: Vestring, Bettina 1965- (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2022
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Zusammenfassung:Dieter Flader explores how current social and cultural concerns are connected to the unconscious, and how this affects our responses to them. Flader focuses on the role of the ego, assessing how our feelings about these issues in adulthood grow from childhood fears and desires, and integrating the existing psychoanalytic theories of Winnicott, Lacan, Kohut, and others with sociological and political theory. The interdisciplinary approach not only analyses current social issues but also generates new perspectives and solutions, and examines examples including climate change, bullying, and vegetarianism
Umfang:xii, 206 Seiten
ISBN:9780367363635
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