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Engaging with climate change : psychoanalytic and interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Sally Weintrobe.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New library of psychoanalysis (Unnumbered)
- The new library of psychoanalysis
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes--Psychological aspects.
- Climatic changes.
- Environmental psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How can we help and support people to face climate change?Engaging with Climate Change is one of the first books to explore in depth what climate change actually means to people. It brings members of a wide range of different disciplines in the social sciences together in discussion and to introduce a psychoanalytic perspective. The important insights that result have real implications for policy, particularly with regard to how to relate to people when discussing the issue. Topics covered include:what lies beneath the current widespread denial of climate change<
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 What history can teach us about climate change denial; 3 The difficult problem of anxiety in thinking about climate change; Discussion; The environmental neurosis of modern man: the illusion of autonomy and the real dependence denied; Discussion; 4 Climate change in a perverse culture; Discussion; Discussion; Reply; 5 Great expectations: the psychodynamics of ecological debt; Discussion; Discussion; Reply
- 6 The myth of apathy: psychoanalytic explorations of environmental subjectivityDiscussion; Not I; Discussion; How sustainable change agents can adopt psychoanalytic perspectives on climate change; 7 Unconscious obstacles to caring for the planet: facing up to human nature; Discussion; Discussion; Goods and bads; 8 How is climate change an issue for psychoanalysis?; Discussion; Discussion; Reply; 9 On the love of nature and on human nature: restoring split internal landscapes; Discussion; Nature, consumption and human flourishing; Discussion; On love of nature and the nature of love
- 10 Climate change, uncertainty and riskIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-20683-3
- 1-283-71374-8
- 0-203-09440-9
- 1-136-20684-1
- 9780203094402
- OCLC:
- 817891555
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