Psychoanalysis and politics : exclusion and the politics of representation / edited by Lene Auestad.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Auestad, Lene.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political psychology.

Political ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Thinking psychoanalytically about the nature of social exclusion involves a self-questioning on the part of the interpreter. While we may all have some experiences of having been subject to stereotyping, silencing, discrimination and exclusion, it is also the case that, as social beings, we all, to some extent, participate in upholding these practices, often unconsciously.The book poses the question of how psychoanalysis can be used to think about the invisible and subtle processes of power over symbolic representation, in the context of stereotyping and dehumanization: What forces govern the

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; PART I THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS; Editor's introduction to chapter one; CHAPTER ONE The dread of sameness: social hatred and Freud's "narcissism of minor differences"; Editor's introduction to chapter two; CHAPTER TWO Subjectivity and absence: prejudice as a psycho-social theme; Editor's introduction to chapter three; CHAPTER THREE Metapsychological approaches to exclusion; Editor's introduction to chapter four; CHAPTER FOUR The excluded in identification; PART II QUESTIONING CASES OF EXCLUSION

Editor's introduction to chapter fiveCHAPTER FIVE True believer: racism and one Nazi ideologist; Editor's introduction to chapter six; CHAPTER SIX Staring and phantasy: a speculative attempt to understand and address the widely observed misrepresentation and exclusion of people with disfigurements; Editor's introduction to chapter seven; CHAPTER SEVEN "Who is afraid of DSM?" The place of the subject in the society of therapy; Editor's introduction to chapter eight; CHAPTER EIGHT Islamism and xenophobia; Editor's introduction to chapter nine

CHAPTER NINET races of trauma in post-conflict Guatemala: theoretical reflections on the effects of trauma on social organisationPART III THE EXCLUSION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: LIMITS AND EXTENSIONS; Editor's introduction to chapter ten; CHAPTER TEN Psychoanalysis behind iron curtains; Editor's introduction to chapter eleven; CHAPTER ELEVEN The extensions of psychoanalysis: colonialism, post-colonialism, and hospitality; INDEX

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-429-91774-0

0-429-90351-0

0-429-47874-7

1-283-60990-8

9786613922359

1-78241-025-2

9780429478741

OCLC:

811507436