Designed Self

Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Identities

AvCarlo Strenger

Inbunden, Engelska, 2004

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Beskrivning

What can contemporary psychoanalysis bring to the understanding of Generation X, a cohort for whom the trivialization of a dizzying array of possible experiences teamed with the pressure to lead spectacular lives often leads to diffuse feelings of confusion, depression, and disorientation. The Designed Self chronicles Strenger's therapeutic encounters with five extraordinarily gifted young adults for whom the ideal of authenticity long associated with the Baby-Boom generation was supplanted by the need to experiment endlessly with the self. Perpetual self-experimentation, constantly reinforced by the media, came to encompass everything from career choice, to hair color, to body shape, to gender identity. In compelling clinical stories, Strenger introduces us to patients for whom the project of shaping the self had become a cultural imperative no less than an expression of individuality. At once insightful and cautionary, The Designed Self investigates how psychoanalysis must change if it is to claim cultural relevance and therapeutic effectiveness in The Age of the Designed Self.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-10-12
Mått:164 x 237 x 20 mm
Vikt:486 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Relational Perspectives Book Series
Antal sidor:222
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780881634198

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Freudiansk psykologi inom Psykologi och pedagogik

Recensioner i media

"In his book, The Designed Self: Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Identities, Dr. Carol Strenger, a philosopher, psychologist, and analyst, presents us with his vision of psychoanalysis from his work in an Israeli urban society with the segment of the population known as Generation X. His case presentations illustrate the divide between the generations and their cultures....this is a well written and enjoyable work to be recommended to all who work with patients, especially, those who work with young adults."—The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease"There are many excellent features in this book. Strenger is clearly comfortable with philosophical traditions from Nietzsche to Derrida, Rorty to Sloterdijk. He is authoritative in his handling of a variety of psychoanalytic practices from Freud through Lacan to the intersubjective and relational approaches."—International Journal of Psychoanalysis

Innehållsförteckning

Prologue: The Designed Self in the Global Village. The Self as Perpetual Experiment. Nobrow: Forming an Identity in an Urban Culture. The Bobo Dilemma. Failing Fathers, Failing Sons. Finding Ethnic Identity and a Place in Western Society. Psychoanalysis in the Age of the Designed Self. Epilogue: Requiem to the Dream of Metaphysical Depth.