Ian Parker

Psychoanalytic Mythologies (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

'Psychoanalytic Mythologies' presents a collection of essays on the theme of what it is to be a human subject in a culture permeated by psychoanalytic imagery. The author disturbs the strongly-held belief of those in thrall to psychoanalysis that it is universally true, and this thesis forms the recurrent motif that binds these essays together. Instead he argues that psychoanalysis functions as something that is only ever locally true. These arguments are elaborated upon in a range of contexts, from night clubs, garages and trains to theme parks, magic circles and yoga, and the different strands are distilled into a cohesive thesis in the definitive final essay 'Psychoanalytic Myth Today'.

The essays presented here were initially published in scattered newsletters and journals, and were written intermittently in a period stretching back over ten years. Ian Parker has written widely in this area, and these lively and innovative essays taken together form a searing manifesto against the accepted dogmas of psychoanalysis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857289377
• Artikelnr.: 44457282

Autorenporträt

Ian Parker is Professor of Psychology in the Discourse Unit at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Points of view
Making love to my ego
The pinball project
Psychopolitical cults
The wet group
Interpersonal skills
Learn and enjoy
Another language
English identity, Ireland and violence
Racing Diana’s subjects
Personal response under attack
In Disney’s world
Looking to the future, and back
   Windows on the mind
Soap trek
Clubbing
E and me
Garage nightmares
Helpless in Japan
Greek chairs
Open secrets
Passé
Psychoanalytic Myth Today