Psychoanalysis and Culture

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Written in a readable, accessible style, with plenty of up-to-dateexamples Psychoanalysis and Culture provides a brilliantintroduction to key issues in the area of application ofpsychoanalytic theories to culture. The author argues that wecannot grasp the complexity of contemporary global issues withoutunderstanding some of the unconscious processes which underliethem. After introducing some major modern and postmodernpsychoanalytic approaches, Minsky offers a broad-ranging critiqueof Lacan's theory of culture and the unconscious. She explores arange of crucial and topical questions: how should we explainwomen's historical subordination and what is now often seen as acrisis in male identity? What constitutes 'masculinity' apart frompower and control? How important is the father, actually andsymbolically in children's development in the context oflone-parent families? Why is contemporary culture often still soviolent and destructive? Why is consumer culture so attractive toso many and why is it so difficult to put limits on economic growthin the interests of preventing environmental disaster? This book will be of great interest to students and scholars insociology, women's studies, cultural studies, psychology andhistory as well as psychoanalytic studies. It will also appeal tothe general reader interested in the psychology of culturalchange.

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"In Psychoanalysis and Culture Rosalind Minsky provides anengaging version of the theories of Freud, Klein, Winnicott, andLacan in making a passionate plea for their relevance tounderstanding the otherwise often overwhelming-seeming alienation,chaos, or complexity of thought and feeling involved in sex,gender, violence, and consumerism in Europe and America at themillennium." Professor Janet Sayers, University of Kent "Rosalind Minsky has produced a comprehensive guide to some ofthe major traditions of psychoanalytic theory, and impressivelydevelops an instructive and engaging dialogue betweenpsychoanalysis and cultural critique." Anthony Elliott,University of Melbourne "[This book] is intelligent, knowledgeable, creative, andremarkably accessible. It lives up to its goal, which is tospeculate as to how psychoanalytic theories enable us to seecultural problems more insightfully." Professor Suzanne Juhasz,University of Colorado "An appeal to those seeking to acquaint themselves with a rangeof psychoanalytic ideas is clearly one of Minsky's principalintentions throughout the book. and she succeeds admirably. Herwriting is clear and accessible and the book could stand as auseful introductory text on her key theorists and the similaritiesand differences between the two major schools of psychoanalysis:Freudian and object-relations" B. Nicol, University CollegeChichester, Psychoanalytic Studies
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