Culture and the unconscious / edited by Caroline Bainbridge ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bainbridge, Caroline, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis and culture.

Subconsciousness.

Physical Description:

xi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

Psychoanalysis has always wandered outside the consulting room. Freud and his followers wrote on art, creativity, politics and war. This collection returns to those themes and sheds light on how cultural questions can be addressed by a closer dialogue between the clinical and academic psychoanalytic traditions. Culture and the Unconscious is a major contribution to the development of these debates, bringing together internationally known analysts and academic researchers in a single volume to produce innovative explorations of creativity, culture and the unconscious. The contributors draw on perspectives from a wide range of psychoanalytic theories and traditions to explore an array of classical and popular cultural forms, from literature to opera, drama, music and cinema. Together with the scene-setting introductions, the chapters open up fascinating conversations between art, academia and psychoanalysis, revealing the distinctive approaches of each and emphasising points of commonality and divergence.

Contents:

Part 1 Psychoanalysis and Culture: Historical and Theoretical Encounters 5

1 A City of Souls and the Soul of a City: Alfred Doblin and the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute / Veronika Fuechtner 11

2 A New Naturalism: On the Origins of Psychoanalysis as a Social Theory of Subjectivity / Karl Figlio 24

3 The Unconscious and Others: Rescue, Inclusivity and the Eroticization of Difference in 1930s Vienna / Mica Nava 41

4 Psychoanalysis and Culture in Secular Times / Michael Rustin 58

5 Thinking Art and Psychoanalysis / Janet Sayers 74

6 Michel de Certeau and the Possibilities of Psychoanalytic Cultural Studies / Ben Highmore 88

Part 2 Culture and Trauma as Working Through 103

7 Everything to Play for: Masculinity, Trauma and the Pleasures of DVD Technologies / Caroline Bainbridge, Candida Yates 107

8 Landscape after Ruins / Phil Cohen 123

9 'Father, Can't You See I'm Burning?' Trauma, Ethics and the Possibility of Community in J. M. Coetzee's Age of Iron / Sam Durrant 141

10 Film, Feminism and Melanie Klein: 'Weird Lullabies' / Suzy Cordon 154

Part 3 The View from the Clinic 169

11 Reality and Unreality in Fact and Fiction / Ronald Britton 174

12 The Idealization of a Lost Object in Julietta and in Clinical Work / Debbie Hindle, Susie Godsil 186

13 Grief in the Mother's Eyes: A Search for Identity / Marguerite Reid 202

14 Forever Young: Not Psychoanalysing Bob Dylan / Marilyn Lawrence, Geoffrey Pearson 212

15 Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Dionysiac and the Apollonian in Euripides's Bacchae / David Bell 225

Conclusion: Clinical and Academic Psychoanalytic Criticism: Differences that Matter / Susannah Radstone 242.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781403986221

1403986223

OCLC:

70673312

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