Psychoanalytic geographies / edited by Paul Kingsbury [and] Steve Pile.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kingsbury, Paul (Paul Thomas)

Pile, Steve, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geographical perception.

Geography--Psychological aspects.

Geography.

Human geography.

Psychoanalysis and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Psychoanalytic Geographies is a unique, path-breaking volume and a core text for anyone seeking to grasp how psychoanalysis helps us understand fundamental geographical questions, and how geographical understandings can offer new ways of thinking psychoanalytically. Elaborating on a variety of psychoanalytic approaches that embrace geographical imaginations and a commitment toward spatial thinking, this book demonstrates the breadth, depth, and vitality of cutting edge work in psychoanalytic geographies and presents readers with as wide a set of options as possible for taking psychoanalysis fo

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Introduction; I Histories and Practices; 1 Freud in the Field; 2 On Freud's Geographies; 3 Consulting Rooms: Notes Towards a Historical Geography of the Psychoanalytic Setting; 4 "Worlding" Psychoanalytic Insights: Unpicking R.D. Laing's Geographies; 5 Mapping Trauma: Topography to Topology; II Psychic Life and its Spaces; 6 Geographies of Psychic Life; 7 A Distributed Unconscious; 8 "Or does it explode?" Psychoanalytic Geographies of Violence and Creativity; 9 "Tehrangeles," CA: The Aesthetics of Shame

10Psychoanalysis and the Geography of the AnthropoceneIII The Technologies of Becoming a Subject; 11 When 1+1 Does Not Equal 2: Childhood Sexuality and Laplanche's Enigmatic Signifier; 12 Towards a Psychoanalytic Geopolitics: The Militarization of Public Schooling in the USA; 13 "Welcome Home our Military Sisters":Sexual Difference and Female Veterans with PTSD; 14 Periscope Down! Charting Masculine Sexuation in Submarine Films; IV Social Life and its Discontents; 15 "Race," Imperializing Geographies of the Machine, and Psychoanalysis

16 A Small Narrow Space: Postcolonial Territorialization and the Libidinal Economy17 The Uncanny in the Beauty Salon; 18 What Does it Mean for Young Women to get Drunk?; 19 Gender, Sexuality, and Race in the Lacanian Mirror: Urinary Segregation and the Bodily Ego; Index

Notes:

"First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-07393-2

1-315-60280-6

1-317-07392-4

1-4094-5762-1

9781315602806

OCLC:

879026131