The Feeling of Certainty (eBook, PDF)

Psychosocial Perspectives on Identity and Difference
Redaktion: Mintchev, Nikolay; Hinshelwood, R. D.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Focuses on a little researched area - certainty, rather than uncertainty

Has implications for research on identity formation, political commitment, racism and prejudice

Brings the work of Karl Figlio together in one place

Includes a variety of empirical data ranging from clinical case studies to ethnographic and historical evidence

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319577173
• Artikelnr.: 53064346

Autorenporträt

Nikolay Mintchev is a research associate at the Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London, UK and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK, where he was previously a lecturer. He specialises in ethnic diversity, social transformation and psychosocial approaches to identity and difference. R. D. Hinshelwood is a professor in the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, and previously Clinical Director at The Cassel Hospital, London, UK. He is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He authored A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought (1989) and other books and articles on Kleinian psychoanalysis. He has an interest in how psychoanalysis may contribute to social and political science.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Feeling of Certainty, Towards a Psychosocial Approach.- 2. The Mentality of Conviction: Feeling Certain and the Search for Truth.- 3. What is Subjectivity and How Can We Study it Empirically? Understanding The Feeling of Certainty through Psychoanalysis and Ethnography.- 4. Haunted by Uncertain Refrains.- 5. Internal Racism: Belief in the Racist Mindset.- 6. Being Racist: The Certainty of a Pathological Organisation of the Personality.- 7. Numinosity and Terror: Jung's Psychological Revision of Otto as an Aid to Engaging Religious Fundamentalism.- 8. "Instead of Trying to Help You, They Try To Screw You": The Feeling of Certainty and the Mexican-origin Border Patrol Agents.- 9. Gender Certainty as a Defence: Oedipal Conflict in Wartime Sexual Violence.- 10. The Primitive Container of Fascism: Masculine Anxieties and Defences in Times of Trauma and Uncertainty.- 11. Collective Identities, Breivik and the National Container.

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