Depressive Crisis, Seeds of Reparation

• Utgivningsdatum: 2027-02-12
• Mått: 156 x 234 x undefined mm
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 276
• Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• ISBN: 9781041392941

• Freudiansk psykologi
• Diskriminering och rättvisa
• Genusvetenskap
• Miljövetenskap och miljöpolitik

Karl Figlio is Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex; Clinical Associate, British Psychoanalytical Society and Senior Member, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association, British Psychotherapy Foundation. His books include Psychoanalysis, Science and Masculinity (2000); Remembering as Reparation: Psychoanalysis and Historical Memory (2017); Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Masculinity: From Toxic to Seminal (2024).

'When things go wrong, we tremble; we get depressed and – with human foolishness – we manage not to notice either that we are or the global crises that cause our mental state. We bring the shutters down on the future with our certainties about the present, and the priorities today. This impassioned thesis can never have been so relevant as it is now. The book’s claim that we bear reality, internal and external, to avoid catastrophe needs to be understood by every politician, and perhaps by every schoolchild whose futures are slowly strangled by today’s paralytic horror. We need to listen to the corruption of our thinking, listen to the obvious devastation cast into the unconscious dustbin of our minds. We need to listen with our psychoanalytic hearing aids.'R. D. Hinshelwood, Professor Emeritus, University of Essex, UK, Fellow, British Psychoanalytical Society'A deeply thoughtful and timely book, Figlio’s work confronts the profound crisis facing humanity, from environmental degradation and war to the erosion of social and moral frameworks. Drawing on Freud, Klein, and other psychoanalytic thinkers, he offers an original and compelling exploration of contemporary depressive crisis, and the defences mobilised against recognising it. His psychoanalytic reflections on depressive anxieties and ambivalence, dread, denial, and the struggle to repair what is damaged, with links to the notions of masculinity and femininity, provide important insights into both individual and collective psychic life. Rigorously researched, and highly relevant, this book deserves a wide readership.'Catalina Bronstein, Fellow, British Psychoanalytical Society, Visiting Professor, University College London'This is a profound, urgent and unsettling book. Karl Figlio brings a rare combination of clinical acuity, philosophical reach and cultural insight to illuminate the psychic roots of our environmental and social catastrophes. With lucid, uncompromising honesty, he traces how primal ambivalence, depressive anxiety and masculine dread shape our collective blindness to collapse. Yet he also uncovers the fragile, essential possibilities of reparation. Depressive Crisis, Seeds of Reparation is an urgently needed contribution to psychoanalytic thought and to our understanding of the crisis-ridden world we inhabit.'David Morgan, Fellow, British Psychoanalytical Society, Full Member, British Psychoanalytic Association, Senior Member, British Psychotherapy Foundation'Karl Figlio’s is the most ambitious and exciting application of Kleinian thinking to the real world in a generation. Melanie Klein assumed that it’s always possible to repair the damage we have inflicted upon the good, what she called reparation. Applying Klein to the environmental crisis, Figlio argues that we may become paralyzed with dread at the possibility that the good earth is in extremis. Anyone interested in the psychological consequences of environmental devastation will benefit from Figlio’s daring speculation, grounded in his deep knowledge of the psychoanalytic literature.' C. Fred Alford, Emeritus Professor, Government and Politics, Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, Author, Melanie Klein and Critical Social Theory (Yale University Press, 2005)'What happens when the ego, the core of which is its precarity, defends against depressive collapse by insisting that what is happening is simply not happening? Continuing to deepen his groundbreaking earlier work, Karl Figlio, a leading psychoanalytic theorist of the psychosocial, locates our collective inability to address the many social ills plaguing us--for example, climate destruction and racism--in our refusal to acknowledge the ambivalence at precarious core of the ego. To avoid depressive collapse, we turn away from taking responsibility for our own role in destroying our world.' Lynne Layton, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School; Editor Emeritus, Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society; Author of Toward a Social Psychoanalysis: Culture, Character, and Normative Unconscious Processes

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