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The Designed Self - Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Identities (Hardcover)
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The Designed Self - Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Identities (Hardcover)
Series: Relational Perspectives Book Series
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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.
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