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Psychoanalysis and ecology at the edge of chaos: Complexity theory, deleuze|guattari and psychoanalysis for a climate in crisis. London: Routledge.
This book argues that psychoanalysis has a unique role to play in the climate change debate through its placing emphasis on the unconscious dimensions of our mental and social lives. Exploring contributions from Freudian, Kleinian, Object Relations, Self Psychology, Jungian, and Lacanian traditions, the book discusses how psychoanalysis can help to unmask the anxieties, deficits, Read more
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Internal racism: A psychoanalytic approach to race and difference. Macmillan Education UK.
Racism’s external forms, from racial assault to petty discrimination, are readily recognized. However, its internal dimensions are easily overlooked: how can we understand what happens in the mind of those engaged in or experiencing racism? This book explores the inner relationship between the self and the socially stereotyped ‘racial’ other, providing a clinically derived model Read more
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Freud's free clinics: Psychoanalysis & social justice, 1918-1938. New York: Columbia University Press.
Today many view Sigmund Freud as an elitist whose psychoanalytic treatment was reserved for the intellectually and financially advantaged. However, in this new work Elizabeth Ann Danto presents a strikingly different picture of Freud and the early psychoanalytic movement. Danto recovers the neglected history of Freud and other analysts’ intense social activism and their commitment Read more
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The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation and Hidden Grief
In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne Anlin Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. The Melancholy of Race proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholic act–a social category that is imaginatively supported through a dynamic of loss and Read more
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The Future of Prejudice: Psychoanalysis and the Prevention of Prejudice Edited by Henri Parens, Afaf Mahfouz, Stuart W. Twemlow, and David E. Scharff Lanham, MD
Established psychoanalytic/psychodynamic researchers and theorists bring the exploration of prejudice to a new level by examining how psychoanalysis might elucidate strategies that will eliminate prejudice. Read more
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Traces of Violence and Freedom of Thought
BOOK DESCRIPTION We are all tainted, whether we are actively engaged or not, by violence in its countless and troubling manifestations. Images and fragments of traumatic and violent scenarios are transported from one generation’s unconscious to that of another, leading to cycles of repetition and retaliation, restricting one’s freedom to imagine alternatives and inhabit alternative Read more
Psychoanalysis and Social Justice 