Freud}}}s Legacy in the Global Era [Hardcover]

Freuds Legacy in the Global Erapresents a radically new perspective on Freuds relevance today as a forerunner of the contemporary evolutionary neurosciences also steeped in the tradition of humanistic thought. Carlo Strenger shows how globalisation has produced new theoretical, practical and clinical issues for psychoanalysis, which can best be understood by drawing on influences from economics, sociology and philosophy.

Strengers lively case histories demonstrate a new psychoanalytic viewpoint engaged with surrounding scientific disciplines in an enriching interchange, and open to the fascinating cultural and social developments that shape patients reality, lives and concerns in a global era.

This book will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic and psychodynamically oriented psychotherapists and to all mental health professionals interested in the interaction of psychoanalysis and other disciplines from a global viewpoint as well as to lay readers keen to understand the complexity of globalized life.

Introduction:Freud in the Global Era  Part I:The New Cosmopolitans and their Discontent  Chapter 1:Sigmund Freud  Fin de Si?cle Cosmopolitan  Chapter 2:The Quantified Self  Chapter 3:Five New Cosmopolitans in Search of Meaning  Chapter 4:Global Entrepreneurs - Myths and Realities  Chapter 5:The New Cosmopolitans - a Psychodynamic Portrait  Part II:Psychoanalysis in the Age of Neuroscience  Introduction:Towards an Open Psychoanalytic Culture  Chapter 6:The Marginalization of Psychoanalysis  Chapter 7:Psychoanalysis Humanistic-Scientific Mission  l³&