D.W. Winnicott and Political Theory: Recentering the Subject

ISBN-13: 9781349954186 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 378 str.

Bowker, Matthew H.

Opis

In this volume, the work of British psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott is set in conversation with some of today's most talented psychodynamically-sensitive political thinkers. The editors and contributors demonstrate that Winnicott's thought contains underappreciated political insights, discoverable in his reflections on the nature of the maturational process, and useful in working through difficult impasses confronting contemporary political theorists. Specifically, Winnicott's psychoanalytic theory and practice offer a framework by which the political subject, destabilized and disrupted in much postmodern and contemporary thinking, may be recentered. Each chapter in this volume, in its own way, grapples with this central theme: the potential for authentic subjectivity and inter-subjectivity to arise within a nexus of autonomy and dependence, aggression and civility, destructiveness and care. This volume is unique in its contribution to the growing field of object-relations-oriented political and social theory. It will be of interest to political scientists, psychologists, and scholars of related subjects in the humanities and social sciences.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction

Matthew H. Bowker and Amy Buzby

Part I: The Subject’s Creation: Aggression, Isolation, and Destruction

Chapter 2: Being and Encountering: Movement and Aggression in Winnicott

Jeremy Elkins

Chapter 3: The Isolation of the True Self and the Problem of Impingement: Implications of Winnicott’s Theory for Social Connection and Political Engagement

David P. Levine

Chapter 4: The Psychoanalytic Winnicott We Need Now: On the Way to a Real Ecological Thought

Melissa A. Orlie

Part II: The Subject Faced with Deprivation and Disaster

Chapter 5: Playing ‘Riot’: Identity in Refuge — Absent Child Narratives in the 2013 Hindu Muslim Riots in Muzaffarnagar, India

Zehra Mehdi

Chapter 6: Safety in Danger and Privacy in Privation: Ambivalent Fantasies of Natural States Invoked in Reaction to Loss

Matthew H. Bowker 

Chapter 7: ‘Out Like a Lion’: Melancholia with Euripides and Winnicott

Bonnie Honig

Chapter 8: Forgiveness and Transitional Experience

C. Fred Alford

Part III: Revitalizing the Subject of Political Theory

Chapter 9: In Transition, but to where?: Winnicott, Integration, and Democratic Associations 

David W. McIvor

Chapter 10: Vanquishing the False Self: Winnicott, Critical Theory and the Restoration of the Spontaneous Gesture

Amy Buzby

Chapter 11: Adults in the Playground: Winnicott and Arendt on Politics and Playfulness

John LeJeune

Part IV: Inter-Subjectivity, Justice, and Equality 

Chapter 12: D.W. Winnicott, Ethics, and Race: Psychoanalytic Thought and Racial Equality in the United States

Alex Zamalin

Chapter 13: Winnicott at Work: Potential Space and the Facilitating Organization

Michael A. Diamond

Chapter 14: Winnicott and the History of Welfare State Thought in Britain

Gal Gerson

Chapter 15: Vulnerability, Dependence, Sovereignty, and Ego-Distortion Theory: Psycho-Analyzing Political Behaviors in the Developing World

Robert C. Chalwell

O autorze

Matthew H. Bowker is Clinical Assistant Professor of Humanities at Medaille College, USA. He is the author of several books in the field of psycho-politics, including: A Dangerous Place to Be (Forthcoming), Ideologies of Experience (2016), and Rethinking the Politics of Absurdity (2014).

Amy Buzby is Associate Professor of Political Science at Arkansas State University, USA. She obtained her PhD in political science from Rutgers University, USA. Her published works include Subterranean Politics and Freud’s Legacy (2013) and Communicative Action (2010).