Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Changing World.
Title:
Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Changing World.
Author:
Brunning, Halina.
ISBN:
9781849409421
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (299 pages)
Contents:
COVER -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS -- EDITOR'S FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I - PSYCHOANALYTIC REFLECTIONS ON THE WORLD OF WORK -- CHAPTER ONE Murderous mergers -- CHAPTER TWO Toxicity and the unconscious experience of the body at the employee-customer interface -- CHAPTER THREE Different organizations-different burnouts -- PART II - PSYCHOANALYTIC REFLECTIONS ON THE FANTASTIC OBJECTS OF DESIRE -- CHAPTER FOUR Money as a phantastic object -- CHAPTER FIVE With memory and desire: the function of the insurance industry in the world that we create -- CHAPTER SIX Psychodynamic reflections on the fashion system -- PART III PSYCHOANALYTIC REFLECTIONS ON THE WORLD OF INTERCONNECTIVITY -- CHAPTER SEVEN The Twitter Revolution: how the internet has changed us -- CHAPTER EIGHT What are we celebrating in the celebrities? -- CHAPTER NINE The new unconscious: opening wider perspectives on society -- PART IV PSYCHOANALYTIC REFLECTIONS ON THE WORLD AROUND US -- CHAPTER TEN Psychoanalysis of a cityscape: a case of post-traumatic stress disorder-the city of Warsaw -- CHAPTER TWELVE Climate change and the apocalyptic imagination -- CONCLUDING REMARKS The past and present as a mirror of the future -- INDEX.
Abstract:
The main purpose of this book is to look at a range of ubiquitous phenomena that make up our daily life and to ask not so much "whether" but "what" psychoanalytic thinking can add to our current understanding of these phenomena. Could there be another layer, below the obvious surface-layer, that needs to be explored further? And if so, can psychoanalytic light reflect upon and illuminate some of the new contours and shapes perhaps previously not fully seen or appreciated? What interim conclusions can we reach as a result of this reflection upon our modern world?This book is linked to its immediate predecessor Psychoanalytic Perspectives on a Turbulent World but it differs significantly in tone, light and composition. This new book no longer addresses itself to the complex and troubling issues such as war, conflict, the global financial crisis and our struggle with leadership, instead, it tends to focus on the lighter side of life.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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