Psychoanalytic Culture Psychoanalytic Discourse in Western Society [Paperback]

Parker systematically reviews the key psychoanalytic theories to reveal social processes and their significance to modern life: Freud and object relations theory is directed towards group processes, religion and war; the Frankfurt School is used to examine modern individuality, authoritarianism and changes in culture; and the Lacanian tradition to account for language, representation and self-improvement. The theoretical analysis incorporates throughout the volume the work of key figures ranging from Adorno, Habermas and Fromm to Klein, Kristeva, Winnicott and Zizek.Parker systematically reviews the key psychoanalytic theories to reveal social processes and their significance to modern life: Freud and object relations theory is directed towards group processes, religion and war; the Frankfurt School is used to examine modern individuality, authoritarianism and changes in culture; and the Lacanian tradition to account for language, representation and self-improvement. The theoretical analysis incorporates throughout the volume the work of key figures ranging from Adorno, Habermas and Fromm to Klein, Kristeva, Winnicott and Zizek.`[The book] promise[s] to become increasingly important for those involved in the therapeutic professions.... Parker very clearly illustrates the discursive functions of psychoanalysis, in relation to understandings of such phenomena as emotion, and sexual, gender and moral identities.... required reading for training in any form of psychotherapy' - Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis

`This richly referenced and thought-provoking book examines the extent to which psychoanalysis is threaded throughout 20th century culture.... Hooray for this complex book and its stunningly simple (and for me) happy ending' - Therapeutic Communities

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