A psychoanalytic and socio-cultural exploration of a continent : Europe on the couch / [edited by] Anna Zajenkowska and Uri Levin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zajenkowska, Anna, editor.

Levin, Uri, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Psychological aspects.

Europe--Social conditions.

Europe.

Social conditions.

Europe--Civilization.

Civilization.

Europe--History--Psychological aspects.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 208 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

"This important book gathers a set of influential international contributors with psychoanalytic and group analytic knowledge to provide a wide-ranging critical analysis of the present state of Europe. Europe is facing huge challenges: waves of immigrants are reshaping its identity and testing its tolerance; Brexit is a destabilizing factor and its outcomes are not yet clear; economic crises continue to threaten; the resurgence of nationalism is threatening an open-borders one-continent ideology. This book tackles some of these challenges. Divided into two parts, the first analyses the current social, political, cultural and economic trends in Europe using psychoanalytic and group analytic concepts, while the second concentrates on existing applications of psychoanalytic and group analytic concepts to help manage national and international change in individual countries as well as on the continent as a whole, including groups for German, Ukrainian and Russian participants; groups organised in Serbia in order to overcome the recent, traumatic past; and the "Sandwich model", developed to enhance communication in situations of conflict, trauma and blocked communication. When we feel threatened, we cling to our in-group and its members. We want to think the same and be the same as our neighbors, but this group illusion of homogeneity conceals the fact that we are different. While homogeneity offers stability, it is diversity that offers freedom. This book will be of great interest to researchers on the present state of Europe from across a range of different disciplines, from psychoanalysis to politics, sociology, economics and international relations"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1 General reflections p. 5

1 Learning from history? The crisis and future of the European project p. 7 / Aleida Assmann

2 A way of seeing some effects of globalization and new technologies in Europe p. 20 / Maria Eugenia Cid Rodríguez

3 Relationality in the age of neoliberal dispossession: Protecting the "other" p. 32 / Marianna Fotaki

4 My Europe: a continent between rejection and re-inclusion: a discussion with Dr. Robi Friedman p. 44 / Anna Zajenkowska and Uri Levin

Part 2 Particular understanding p. 55

5 The image of Europe in the social unconscious of Israeli Jews p. 57 / Haim Weinberg

6 Poland and the other - the other and Poland: a dialogue between a newcomer and a native p. 67 / Ziad Abou Saleh and Bogdan de Barbara

7 The German "Welcoming Culture" - some thoughts about its psychodynamics p. 85 / Regine Scholz

8 Norway: between grandiosity and inferiority p. 99 / Thor Kristian Island

9 Far from the madding crowd: pre to post Brexit Britain p. 112 / Halina Brunning and Olya Khaleelee

10 Will Brexit brake the EU? p. 124 / Shmuel Bernstein

Part 3 Practical interventions p. 133

11 National nightmare: thoughts on the genesis and legacy of perpetrator trauma p. 135 / M. Gerard Fromm

12 Social memory of the Holocaust in Poland p. 147 / Katarzyna Prot-Klinger and Krzysztof Szwajca

13 Negotiation between three ambivalently connected nations: finding common ground through metaphors in multinational large group sessions p. 163 / Marie-Luise Alder and Stephan Alder

14 The Balkans on the Reflective-Citizens couch unraveling social-psychic-re treats p. 175 / Marina Mojovic

15 Europe on the couch in Social Dreaming Matrices p. 188 / Gila Ofer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780367182748

0367182742

9780367182779

0367182777

OCLC:

1119745742