What Holds Us Together: Popular Culture and Social Cohesion

ISBN-13: 9780367102647 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 132 str.

Barry Richards

Opis

In this unusual book of political psychology, based on the idea that we hold ourselves together through a combination of restraint and release, the author draws on psychoanalysis and its creative interpretations of everyday experience to consider the current malaise of politics in relation to the huge vitality of popular culture.

Spis treści

1. The popular disciplines of delight  2. The containing matrix of the social  3. The therapeutic culture hypothesis  4.  Containment and compression: politics in the therapeutic age

O autorze

Barry Richards