Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Changing World

ISBN-13: 9781855758865 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 298 str.

Halina Brunning

Opis

The main purpose of this book is to look at a range of ubiquitous phenomena that make up our daily life and to ask not so much whether but what psychoanalytic thinking can add to our current understanding of these phenomena. Could there be another layer, below the obvious surface-layer that needs to be explored further? If so, can psychoanalytic light reflect upon and illuminate some of the new contours and shapes perhaps previously not fully seen or appreciated? What interim conclusions can we reach as a result of this reflection upon our modern world? This book is linked to its immediate predecessor, Psychoanalytic Perspectives on a Turbulent World, but it differs significantly in tone, light and composition. This new book no longer addresses itself to the complex and troubling issues such as war, conflict, the global financial crisis and our struggle with leadership, instead it focuses on the lighter side of life.

Spis treści

Editor's Foreword -- Introduction -- Psychoanalytic Reflections on the World of Work -- Murderous mergers -- Toxicity and the unconscious experience of the body at the employee–customer interface 1 , 2 -- Different organizations—different burnouts -- Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Fantastic Objects of Desire -- Money as a phantastic object -- With memory and desire: the function of the insurance industry in the world that we create -- Psychodynamic reflections on the fashion system -- Psychoanalytic Reflections on the World of Interconnectivity -- The Twitter Revolution: how the internet has changed us -- What are we celebrating in the celebrities? -- The new unconscious: opening wider perspectives on society -- Psychoanalytic Reflections on the World around Us -- Psychoanalysis of a cityscape: a case of post-traumatic stress disorder—the city of Warsaw -- Panic and pandemics: from fear of contagion to contagion of fear -- Climate change and the apocalyptic imagination -- Concluding Remarks

O autorze

Brunning, Halina