Climate crisis, psychoanalysis, and radical ethics / Donna M. Orange.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orange, Donna M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental psychology.

Climatic changes--Psychological aspects.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Social aspects.

Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

xvi, 147 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

Psychoanalysis engages with the difficult subjects in life, but it has been slow to address climate change. Climate Crisis, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics draws on the latest scientific evidence to set out the likely effects of climate change on politics, economics and society more generally, including impacts on psychoanalysts. Despite a tendency to avoid the warnings, times of crisis summon clinicians to emerge from comfortable consulting rooms. Daily engaged with human suffering, they now face the inextricably bound together crises of global warming and massive social injustices. After considering historical and emotional causes of climate unconsciousness and of compulsive consumerism, this book argues that only a radical ethics of responsibility to be "my other's keeper" will truly wake us up to climate change and bring psychoanalysts to actively take on responsibilities, such as demanding change from governments, living more simply, flying less, and caring for the earth and its inhabitants everywhere. Linking climate justice to radical ethics by way of psychoanalysis, Donna Orange explores many relevant aspects of psychoanalytic expertise, referring to work on trauma, mourning, and the transformation of trouble into purpose. Orange makes practical suggestions for action in the psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic communities: reducing air travel, consolidating organizations and conferences, better use of internet communication and education. This book includes both philosophical considerations of egoism (close to psychoanalytic narcissism) as problematic, together with work on shame and envy as motivating compulsive and conspicuous consumption. Climate Crisis, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics will provide accessible and thought-provoking reading for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, as well as philosophers, environmental studies scholars and students studying across these fields. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Climate justice and business as usual: what's wrong with this picture?

Historical unconsciousness and the invisible present

Beyond evasion: psychoanalysis for the climate crisis

Radical ethics for our climate emergency

Afterword: after Paris.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138124851

1138124850

9781138124868

1138124869

OCLC:

946076194