Unconscious Politics: Alienation, Social Science and Psychoanalysis

Author(s) : R.D. Hinshelwood

Unconscious Politics: Alienation, Social Science and Psychoanalysis

Book Details

  • Publisher : Karnac Books
  • Published : 2024
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 286
  • Category :
    Psychotherapy and Politics
  • Catalogue No : 97761
  • ISBN 13 : 9781800132351
  • ISBN 10 : 1800132352

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
About the author
Foreword
Introduction

Part I: Introduction
1. Politics and representation
2. Discovery: Self-alienation

Part II: Humanity
3. Comparisons and origins
4. Labour process: Alienation process
5. Projective identification: Dumping and sharing
6. Mental steady-states
7. Producing humans: Some conclusions

Part III: And society
8. Complexity theory and complex psychoanalytic theory
9. The model simplified as a diagram
10. Drivers, good or bad
11. Another matching
12. Another anxiety: guilt
13. The intergroup dynamic
14. Leadership, and followers

Part IV: Commodities
15. Indifference at Auschwitz
16. Gifts and trading
17. Money
18. Stereotyping
19. The law is blind
20. Transition from steady-state to steady-state
21. Alienation: Socially driven

Part V: What to do
22. Political action: Collaboration
23. What to do: Psychoanalytic action?

Epilogue
Appendix. The betrothal of two disciplines
Glossary
References
Index

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