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86 produkter
Play of Political Culture, Emotion and Identity
Inbunden, 2015
769 kr
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Offering a uniquely 'psycho-cultural' take on the emotional dynamics of UK political culture this book uses theories and research in psychoanalysis, cultural and media studies and political sociology. It explores the cultural and emotional processes that shape our relationship to politics in a …
Psychosocial Explorations of Film and Television Viewing
Ordinary Audience
Inbunden, 2014
747 kr
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Most people have, at some point, experienced powerful, often strange and disconcerting, responses to films and television programmes of which they cannot always make sense. Drawing on insights from psychoanalysis, this book argues that the seemingly mundane and everyday activity of film and …
Radical Sociality
On Disobedience, Violence and Belonging
Av M. Palacios
Inbunden, 2013
536 kr
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A philosophical and psychoanalytic investigation of relations to otherness, violence, disobedience and belonging, Radical Sociality explores the possibilities and vicissitudes of contemporary forms of belonging and the limits and challenges of democracy.
Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions
Inbunden, 2013
747 kr
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This book explores how the present is troubled by the past and the future. It uses the idea of haunting to explore how identities, beliefs, intimacies and hatreds are transmitted across generations and between people and how these things structure psychosocial and psychopolitical life.
Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions
Häftad, 2013
324 kr
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This book explores how the present is troubled by the past and the future. It uses the idea of haunting to explore how identities, beliefs, intimacies and hatreds are transmitted across generations and between people and how these things structure psychosocial and psychopolitical life.
(Post)apartheid Conditions
Psychoanalysis and Social Formation
Av D. Hook
Inbunden, 2013
536 kr
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(Post)apartheid Conditions: Psychoanalysis and Social Formation advances a series of psychoanalytic perspectives on contemporary South Africa, exploring key psychosocial topics such as space-identity, social fantasy, the body, whiteness, memory and nostalgia.
Political Imaginary of Sexual Freedom
Subjectivity and Power in the New Sexual Democratic Turn
Inbunden, 2016
906 kr
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This book develops a performative and relational approach to gendered and sexualised bodies conceived as distinct from the more limited individualistic idea of sexual identity and orientation that is at play within notions of progress in contemporary transnational sexual politics. Focusing on the …
Race, Memory and the Apartheid Archive
Towards a Transformative Psychosocial Praxis
Av G. Stevens, N. Duncan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
568 kr
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Race, Memory and the Apartheid Archive: Towards a Transformative Psychosocial Praxis draws on a psychosocial approach that is uniquely suited to the socio-historical and psychical analysis of racism. The book relies mainly on the memories, stories and narratives of ordinary people living in …
Liminality and Experience
A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Psychosocial
Av Paul Stenner
Inbunden, 2018
986 kr
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This book breathes new life into the study of liminal experiences of transition and transformation, or ‘becoming’. It brings fresh insight into affect and emotion, dream and imagination, and fabulation and symbolism by tracing their relation to experiences of liminality. The author proposes a …
Psychoanalysis and Social Involvement
Interpretation and Action
Av U. Hadar
Inbunden, 2013
747 kr
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This book considers psychoanalysis as an ethical enterprise, both on the level of the individual in analytic psychotherapy, and on the level of society in the global struggle for human and civil rights. Hadar examines the struggle against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lives from a Lacanian …
Psychoanalysis and Social Involvement
Interpretation and Action
Av U. Hadar
Häftad, 2013
292 kr
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This book considers psychoanalysis as an ethical enterprise, both on the level of the individual in analytic psychotherapy, and on the level of society in the global struggle for human and civil rights. Hadar examines the struggle against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lives from a Lacanian …
Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis
Diverse Perspectives on the Psychosocial
Av Lynn Chancer, John Andrews m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
853 kr
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A collection of 18 contributions by well-known scholars in and outside the US, The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis shows how sociology has much to gain from incorporating rather than overlooking or marginalizing psychoanalysis and psychosocial approaches to a wide range of social …
Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis
Diverse Perspectives on the Psychosocial
Häftad, 2014
271 kr
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A collection of 18 contributions by well-known scholars in and outside the US, The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis shows how sociology has much to gain from incorporating rather than overlooking or marginalizing psychoanalysis and psychosocial approaches to a wide range of social …
Passivity Generation
Human Rights and Everyday Morality
Inbunden, 2013
536 kr
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The book applies a unique mix of psychosocial methods to understand the complexity of emotional, cognitive and ideological responses to human rights violations and examines the banal quality of the everyday vocabularies that people use to make sense of human rights and their violations, and justify …
Narcissism and Its Discontents
Av J. Walsh
Inbunden, 2014
536 kr
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Narcissism and Its Discontents challenges the received wisdom that narcissism is only destructive of good social relations. By building on insights from psychoanalysis and critical theory it puts forward a theorisation of narcissistic sociability which redeems Narcissus from his position as the …
Psychosocial and Organization Studies
Affect at Work
Inbunden, 2014
853 kr
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Leading authors within organization studies and also from broader social science disciplines present the state of the art in the rapidly developing field of psychosocial approaches to organization studies and critical management studies.
Fantasy and Social Movements
Av J. Ormrod
Inbunden, 2014
536 kr
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It is sometimes assumed that fantasizing stands in contrast to activism. This book, however, argues that fantasy plays a central role in social movements. Drawing on psychoanalysis and psychosocial theories, Fantasy and Social Movements examines the relationships between fantasy, reality, action, …
Ecological Crisis, Sustainability and the Psychosocial Subject
Beyond Behaviour Change
Inbunden, 2016
878 kr
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This book draws on recent developments across a range of perspectives including psychoanalysis, narrative studies, social practice theory, posthumanism and trans-species psychology, to establish a radical psychosocial alternative to mainstream understanding of 'environmental problems'. Only by …
Psychosocial Imaginaries
Perspectives on Temporality, Subjectivities and Activism
Inbunden, 2015
800 kr
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Psychosocial studies challenges the traditions of psychology and sociology from a genuinely transdisciplinary perspective. The book reflects this agenda in its varied theoretical and empirical strands, producing a newly contextualised and restless body of understanding of how 'psychic' and 'social' …
Psychopolitics of the Oriental Father
Between Omnipotence and Emasculation
Av B. Somay
Inbunden, 2014
536 kr
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With a foreword by Slavoj Žižek, this book explores the Father Function in the East in the process of 'Modernisation', arguing that 'Modernisation' and 'Westernisation' are euphemisms for the advent of capitalism in Asiatic and African societies which lead to fatal transformations of the cultural …
Knowing Mothers
Researching Maternal Identity Change
Av W. Hollway
Inbunden, 2015
800 kr
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How do women experience the identity changes involved in becoming mothers for the first time? Throughout in depth case examples, Wendy Hollway demonstrates how a different research methodology, underpinned by a psychoanalytically informed epistemology, can transform our understanding of the early …
Knowing Mothers
Researching Maternal Identity Change
Av W. Hollway
Häftad, 2015
377 kr
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How do women experience the identity changes involved in becoming mothers for the first time? Throughout in depth case examples, Wendy Hollway demonstrates how a different research methodology, underpinned by a psychoanalytically informed epistemology, can transform our understanding of the early …
Psychoanalysis, Philosophy and Myth in Contemporary Culture
After Oedipus
Av Angie Voela
Inbunden, 2017
986 kr
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This book examines the use of myth in contemporary popular and high culture, and proposes that the aporetic subject, the individual that ‘does not know’, is the ideal contemporary subject. Using several contemporary novels, films and theatrical plays that illustrate aporia – such as Percy Jackson …
Enjoyment and Submission in Modern Fantasy
Av Mihnea Panu
Inbunden, 2016
959 kr
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This book reveals the workings of the bourgeois passion for submission in a variety of contemporary contexts. By (re)introducing the concept ‘bourgeois’ as an analytical term and describing this contemporary subject as a psychic economy rather than just as a social class, Panu shows the …
Traces of Violence and Freedom of Thought
Av Lene Auestad, Amal Treacher Kabesh
Inbunden, 2017
986 kr
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This book examines how people cannot escape being tainted, whether actively engaged or not, by violence in its countless manifestations. The essays encompass a wide range of theoretical resources, methodological approaches and geo-political areas. They describe how images and fragments of traumatic …
Working-through Collective Wounds
Trauma, Denial, Recognition in the Brazilian Uprising
Inbunden, 2018
1064 kr
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Working-through Collective Wounds discusses how collectives mourn and create symbols. It challenges ideas of the irrational and destructive crowd, and examines how complicated scenes of working-through traumas take place in the streets and squares of cities, in times of protest. Drawing on insights …
Remembering as Reparation
Psychoanalysis and Historical Memory
Av Karl Figlio
Inbunden, 2017
829 kr
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This book brings together psychoanalysis, clinical and theoretical, with history in a study of remembering as reparation: not compensation, but recognition of the actuality of perpetration and the remorseful urge to rejuvenate whatever represents this damage. Karl Figlio argues that this process, …
Freud on Time and Timelessness
Inbunden, 2016
769 kr
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Time and timelessness are fundamental principles of psychoanalysis yet Freud does not present a consolidated theory of temporality. In this book Kelly Noel-Smith pieces together Freud's scattered 'hints' and 'suspicions' about time and its negative, timelessness. She traces a careful temporal trail …
Psychosocial Explorations of Film and Television Viewing
Ordinary Audience
Häftad, 2014
399 kr
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Most people have, at some point, experienced powerful, often strange and disconcerting, responses to films and television programmes of which they cannot always make sense. Drawing on insights from psychoanalysis, this book argues that the seemingly mundane and everyday activity of film and …
Radical Sociality
On Disobedience, Violence and Belonging
Av M. Palacios
Häftad, 2013
377 kr
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A philosophical and psychoanalytic investigation of relations to otherness, violence, disobedience and belonging, Radical Sociality explores the possibilities and vicissitudes of contemporary forms of belonging and the limits and challenges of democracy.
