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Alienation, Conscious and Unconscious: Reflections on Psychoanalysis and Sociopolitical Issues

Author(s) : R.D. Hinshelwood, Author(s) : Giuseppe Caruso

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
About the authors
Abstracts of the papers
Introduction: A preliminary discussion

Part I: Setting out the psychosocial divide

Chapter 1. Marxist and psychoanalytic alienations
- Paper 1. Projective identification and Marx’s concept of man (1983)

Chapter 2. Seeking the synthesis
- Paper 2. Convergences with psychoanalysis (1996)

Discussion of Part I

Part II: Individual psychology with its interpersonal dimensions

Chapter 3. Affect flow
- Paper 3. The individual and the influence of social settings (2005)

Chapter 4. Fluid identities
- Paper 4. Social possession of identity (1988)

Chapter 5. Stability or annihilation
- Paper 5. Psychological defences and nuclear war (2002)

Discussion of Part II

Part III: The sociopolitical penetrated by the mental

Chapter 6. Tracking down ideology
- Paper 6. Ideology and identity (2009)

Chapter 7. Socially stabilising identity
- Paper 7. Intolerance and the intolerable: The case of racism (2007)

Chapter 8. Belonging and identifying
- Paper 8. The function of symbol-formation: Pinning down the ego function (2020)

Discussion of Part III

Part IV: How do we “take action”?

Chapter 9. Is reflection an action?
- Paper 9. Reflection or action: And never the twain shall meet (2017)

Chapter 10. Democracy weaponised
- Paper 10. The disappointment of democracy (2021)

Chapter 11. The inexistence of debate
- Paper 11. Political action, psychoanalytic action (2023)

Discussion of Part IV

Conclusion
Index