Psychoanalysis and Politics: Exclusion and the Politics of Representation

ISBN-13: 9781780490076 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 278 str.

Lene Auestad

Opis

Thinking psychoanalytically about the nature of social exclusion involves a self-questioning on the part of the interpreter. While we may all have some experiences of having been subject to stereotyping, silencing, discrimination and exclusion, it is also the case that, as social beings, we all, to some extent, participate in upholding these practices, often unconsciously.

The book poses the question of how psychoanalysis can be used to think about the invisible and subtle processes of power over symbolic representation, in the context of stereotyping and dehumanization: What forces govern the state of affairs that determine who is an 'I' and who is an 'it' in the public sphere?

Thinking in terms of -containment-, a communication which is denied a social space for expression can be said to be actively stripped of meaning. Through its original contribution of attending to, and interpreting material that so far had seemed meaningless, psychoanalysis demonstrates a capacity to reinstall meaning where none was before--but how are such acts performed on a social level?

When common responsibility is displaced onto a suitable class or group and its representatives, the end point is reached when the individual is objectified and the social aspects of the process are no longer recognized. His or her position becomes an illegitimate one from which to speak--the person's subjectivity is excluded. The book poses the question of how we can conceive of the 'how' and the 'why' of this phenomenon and of possible counter-actions.

Spis treści

ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION/Lene Auestad -- PART I: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS -- Editor’s introduction to chapter one -- CHAPTER ONE -- The dread of sameness: social hatred and Freud’s “narcissism of minor differences”/Karl Figlio -- Editor’s introduction to chapter two -- CHAPTER TWO -- Subjectivity and absence: prejudice as a psycho-social theme/Lene Auestad -- Editor’s introduction to chapter three -- CHAPTER THREE -- Metapsychological approaches to exclusion/Jonathan Davidoff -- Editor’s introduction to chapter four 65 -- CHAPTER FOUR -- The excluded in identification/Calum Neill -- PART II: QUESTIONING CASES OF EXCLUSION -- Editor’s introduction to chapter five -- CHAPTER FIVE -- True believer: racism and one Nazi ideologist/Martyn Housden -- Editor’s introduction to chapter six -- CHAPTER SIX -- Staring and phantasy: a speculative attempt to understand and address the widely observed misrepresentation and exclusion of people with disfigurements/Jane Frances -- Editor’s introduction to chapter seven -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- “Who is afraid of DSM?” The place of the subject in the society of therapy/René Rasmussen -- Editor’s introduction to chapter eight -- CHAPTER EIGHT -- Islamism and xenophobia/Sverre Varvin -- Editor’s introduction to chapter nine -- CHAPTER NINE -- Traces of trauma in post-conflict Guatemala: theoretical reflections on the effects of trauma on social organisation/Elisabeth Rohr -- PART III: THE EXCLUSION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: LIMITS AND EXTENSIONS -- Editor’s introduction to chapter ten 199 -- CHAPTER TEN -- Psychoanalysis behind iron curtains/Ferenc Erős -- Editor’s introduction to chapter eleven -- CHAPTER ELEVEN -- The extensions of psychoanalysis: colonialism, post-colonialism, and hospitality/Julia Borossa -- INDEX.

O autorze

Lene Auestad