Psychoanalysis, Society and Culture

Building Bridges
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-12805-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 166 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This book looks at the intersection of psychoanalytic thinking, society and culture, using examples drawn from literature, clinical practice and everyday life.

Psychoanalysis, Society and Culture explores the various ways in which psychoanalysis shares preoccupations with the humanities including but not restricted to music, art, philosophy, history and politics, while retaining its own way of understanding phenomena. Each chapter is built around a different illustrative example, exploring how psychoanalytic thinking can let us better understand key cultural works such as Shakespeare's Macbeth, the poetry of Wordsworth and Mahler's music, as well as societal examples such as the politics of delivering psychiatric services, and the nature of happiness and misery. In doing so it explores how the human subject becomes more alive in the encounter with human activity in all its varieties and complexities.

Informed by deep clinical understanding but written in a highly accessible way, this is key reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, cultural studies scholars and anyone wanting a better understanding of the role of psychoanalytic thinking in contemporary society and culture.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kennedy, Roger

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychodynamische Psychotherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: What will emerge? The relevance of Freud in today’s culture 2. Tolerance and the arts, the example of Shakespeare 3. Musical journeys: A psychoanalytic exploration of music 4. History, memory and the unconscious 5. Some thoughts on psychoanalysis and art 6. Shakespeare and evil: Macbeth’s dagger of the mind 7. Jewish identity and musical modernism: Mahler, Schoenberg and their complex relationship with Judaism 8. The importance of a psychic home in the life and work of William Wordsworth 9. Power, conflict and leadership: NHS at breaking point 10. The politics of delivering psychiatric services: Treating the mind through relationships 11. Happiness and misery: An essay

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Roger Kennedy is a consultant child psychiatrist and adult psychoanalyst and a past president of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He was an NHS consultant at the Cassel Hospital for 30 years and is now chair of the Child and Family Practice where he sees children and families. He has had 15 books, and many papers, published on psychoanalysis, interdisciplinary studies and child work.