Identity Crisis

1991
ISBN: 978-0-333-51107-7
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 217 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 317 g

This book examines the psychological responses of people to the excitements and terrors that characterise the modern world. Beginning with a description of modernist and post-modernist accounts of contemporary life, it then moves into detailed discussions of narcissism and psychosis - two states of mind that seem to characterise the 'crises of self' to which the modern world gives rise.
With an interweaving of social theory and psychodynamic explanations, this is a sophisticated and compelling text. Identity Crisis will be of interest to students in a wide range of disciplines including psychology, sociology, psychoanalysis, politics and cultural studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frosh, Stephen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.-The Modern Mind.- Modernity, Narcissism and Psychosis.- PART 1: SOCIAL EXPERIENCE.- Modern Times.- Postmodern States of Mind.- PART 2: FREUD'S MONSTER.- The Dam Metaphor.- Nature and Unconscious Passion.- Affirmative Relations.- Bad World, Mad World.- Postmodern Psychosis.- PART 3: NARCISSISM.- The Culture of Narcissism.- Subject and Object.- Narcissistic Pathology.- Lost Illusions.- The Ego Ideal.- The Real Father.- PART 4: NARCISSISTIC PATHOLOGY.- Narcissism and Society.- Selfobjects and Mirrors.- The Raging Self.- Broken Mirrors.- Transference and Change.- PART 5: DREAMING OF MADNESS.- The Habit of Belief.- The Influencing Machine.- Schizoanalysis.- The Madness of Self and Society.- PART 6: PSYCHOTIC STATES OF MIND.- Recuperating Reality.- Signifying Nothing.- Inside and Out.- Annihilatory Pieces.- Postmodernism, Concrete Consumption and Reverie.- Conclusion: The Crisis of Identity.- Identity Crisis.- Reverie and Resistance.- References.- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Frosh is Pro-Vice-Master and Professor in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, and was previously Vice-Dean of the Tavistock Clinic. He is the author of many books and papers on psychosocial studies and on psychoanalysis, including Psychoanalysis Outside the Clinic, Hate and the Jewish Science: Anti-Semitism, Nazism and Psychoanalysis, For and Against Psychoanalysis, After Words, The Politics of Psychoanalysis and Sexual Difference and Identity Crisis. His most recent books are Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions and A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory.