Beneath the Crust of Culture

Psychoanalytic Anthropology and the Cultural Unconscious in American Life
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-420-0818-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 137 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 268 g

Reihe: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies

In this book, the author presents a pioneering interpretation of culture as constituting a dynamic relationship between the visible “crust” and the elusive “core” of social life. He meticulously maps the role of the unconscious in shaping much of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He crosses and transcends disciplinary boundaries in studies of September 11, 2001, the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, the execution of Timothy McVeigh, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the 1999 Worcester, Massachusetts fire, and the eruption of hypernationalism and xenophobia in nations and workplaces — all as cultural phenomena with a psychodynamic core. He shows how the experience of loss in the face of massive social change often leads to equally massive defence against the experience of mourning. Beneath the Crust of Culture will be of interest not only for behavioural and social science professionals, but also for a lay public interested in understandings of culture deeper than the surface of the news and of official pronouncements.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stein, Howard F

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FOREWORD by Jon Mills
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ONE: Days of Awe: September 11, 2001 and Its Cultural Psychodynamics
TWO: Disposable Youth: The 1999 Columbine High School Massacre as American Metaphor
THREE: The Execution of Timothy McVeigh: Cultural Mystification and Deeper Clues
FOUR: Hypernationalism and Xenophobia in Workplace and Nation State
FIVE: The Left Out and the Forgotten: An Approach to Understanding Disasters
SIX: Mourning and Society: Situating Loss and Grief in the History and Philosophy of Science
EPILOGUE
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
REFERENCES
INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Howard F. Stein, Ph.D., a psychoanalytic anthropologist, is a professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, where he has taught for twenty-five years. Author of over two hundred scholarly articles and chapters, and author or editor of twenty-two books, his most recent book is Nothing Personal, Just Business: A Guided Journey into Organizational Darkness (2001).