Psychoanalysis, Identity, and Ideology

Psychoanalysis, Identity, and Ideology

Author: John Bunzl

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-14

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1475763247

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Since its founding one hundred years ago psychoanalysis has been the focus of contention, controversy, and debate. What has been clear despite all controversies is that the psychoanalytic tradition has created and inspired special modes of critical thinking which have been used to examine both human behavior and corresponding social ideologies. Psychoanalysis, Identity, and Ideology presents papers from a historic two day conference of leading Israeli, Palestinian, and European psychologists held in June of 1999. Sensitive professional and historical dilemmas are discussed with refreshing openness. This collection embodies the tradition of critical thinking applied to ideologies and identities, Zionism in particular, through a non-exclusive prism of psychoanalytic traditions.


Psychoanalysis, Identity, and Ideology

Psychoanalysis, Identity, and Ideology

Author: John Bunzl

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2002-07-31

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9781402071553

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Since its founding one hundred years ago psychoanalysis has been the focus of contention, controversy, and debate. What has been clear despite all controversies is that the psychoanalytic tradition has created and inspired special modes of critical thinking which have been used to examine both human behavior and corresponding social ideologies. Psychoanalysis, Identity, and Ideology presents papers from a historic two day conference of leading Israeli, Palestinian, and European psychologists held in June of 1999. Sensitive professional and historical dilemmas are discussed with refreshing openness. This collection embodies the tradition of critical thinking applied to ideologies and identities, Zionism in particular, through a non-exclusive prism of psychoanalytic traditions.


Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalytic Political Theory

Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalytic Political Theory

Author: Yannis Stavrakakis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-09-05

Total Pages: 631

ISBN-13: 1315524759

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The emerging field of ‘psychoanalytic political theory’ has now reached a stage in its development and rapid evolution that deserves to be registered, systematically defined and critically evaluated. This Handbook provides the first reference volume which showcases the current state of psychoanalytic political theory, maps the genealogy of its development, identifies its conceptual and methodological resources and highlights its analytical innovations as well as its critical promise. The Handbook consists of 35 chapters offering original, comprehensive and critical reviews of this field of study. The chapters are divided into five thematic sections: Figures discusses the work of major psychoanalytic theorists who have influenced considerably the development of psychoanalytic political theory. Traditions genealogically recounts and critically reassesses the many attempts throughout the 20th century of experimenting with the articulation between psychoanalysis and political theory in a consistent way. Concepts asks what are the concepts that psychoanalysis offers for appropriation by political theory. Themes presents concrete examples of the ways in which psychoanalytic political theory can be productively applied in the analysis of racism, gender, nationalism, consumerism, etc. Challenges/Controversies captures the ways in which psychoanalytic political theory can lead the way towards theoretical and analytical innovation in many disciplinary fields dealing with cutting-edge issues. The Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalytic Political Theory will serve as scholarly reference volume for all students and researchers studying political theory, psychoanalysis, and the history of ideas.


Identity, Ideology and Conflict

Identity, Ideology and Conflict

Author: John Daniel Cash

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-08-22

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9780521550529

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Ideologies and identities are central to the organisation of political life and political conflict, yet most empirical studies tend to obscure their significance. This failure to take the politics of identity seriously arises from an absence of adequate theory and method. This 1996 study draws on both social theory and psychological (especially psychoanalytic) theory in an attempt to overcome these lacunae. First, it develops a novel theory and method for the analysis of ideology and identity. Second, it develops a detailed analysis of the politics of identity in Northern Ireland through focusing upon Unionist ideology and Unionist identities in crisis. The political conflict within Unionism is analysed through a consideration of the variety of unconscious rules drawn upon by political actors and citizens in the making of Northern Ireland's history of the late 1980s.


The Lacanian Left

The Lacanian Left

Author: Yannis Stavrakakis

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2007-08-09

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780791473290

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Innovative exploration of the relationship of Lacanian psychoanalysis to political and democratic theory.


Identity as Ideology

Identity as Ideology

Author: S. Malesevic

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-10-10

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0230625649

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Despite profound disagreement on whether identities are essential or existential, primordial or constructed, singular or multiple, there is little dispute over whether identities exist or not. In this provocative study, Sinisa Malesevic interrogates the unproblematic use of concepts of identity, and in particular national or ethnic identity.


Identity

Identity

Author: Paul du Gay

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2000-12-08

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 9780761969167

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The Identity Reader is a resource of key statements around the question of identity, drawn from cultural studies, sociology and psychoanalytic theory. It compares and contrasts cultural studies approaches with psychoanalytic accounts.


Healing Identities

Healing Identities

Author: Cynthia Burack

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-08-06

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1501726692

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Group identifications famously pose the problem of destructive rhetoric and action against others. Cynthia Burack brings together the theory work of women of color and the tools of psychoanalysis to examine the effects of group collaborations for social justice and progressive politics. This juxtaposition illuminates some assumptions about race and equality encoded in psychoanalysis. Burack's discursive analysis suggests the positive, identity-affirming aspects of group relational life for African American women. One analytic response to groups emphasizes the dangers of these identifications and exhorts people to abandon or transcend them for their own good and for the good of others who may be harmed by group-based forms of cultural or material violence. Another response understands that people feel a need for group identifications and asks how they may be made more resistant to malignant group-based discourse and action. What can black feminist thought teach scholars and democratic citizens about groups? Burack shows how the rhetoric of black feminism models reparative, rather than destructive, forms of group dialogue and action. Although it may be impossible to eliminate group identifications that provide much of the impetus for bias and violence, she argues, we can encourage more progressive forms of leadership, solidarity, and coalition politics.


Psychic Reality and Psychoanalytic Knowing

Psychic Reality and Psychoanalytic Knowing

Author: Barnaby Barratt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-11-06

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1317382218

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How do we know our mental life, and how is our mental life altered by our efforts to know it better? Originally published in 1984, this title attempts an epistemological and ontological discourse concerning the understanding of human mental processes, and it aims toward a definitive thesis on the dialectics of knowing and being in this work of psychological understanding. What this work reconfronts are questions pertaining to all psychology and to all human sciences. Yet much of its focus is on the understanding of unconscious mental contents, on the question of knowing and being in Freud’s psychology.