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Climate Crisis, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics (Hardcover)
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Climate Crisis, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics (Hardcover)
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Psychoanalysis engages with the difficult subjects in life, but it
has been slow to address climate change. Climate Crisis,
Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics draws on the latest scientific
evidence to set out the likely effects of climate change on
politics, economics and society more generally, including impacts
on psychoanalysts. Despite a tendency to avoid the warnings, times
of crisis summon clinicians to emerge from comfortable consulting
rooms. Daily engaged with human suffering, they now face the
inextricably bound together crises of global warming and massive
social injustices. After considering historical and emotional
causes of climate unconsciousness and of compulsive consumerism,
this book argues that only a radical ethics of responsibility to be
"my other's keeper" will truly wake us up to climate change and
bring psychoanalysts to actively take on responsibilities, such as
demanding change from governments, living more simply, flying less,
and caring for the earth and its inhabitants everywhere. Linking
climate justice to radical ethics by way of psychoanalysis, Donna
Orange explores many relevant aspects of psychoanalytic expertise,
referring to work on trauma, mourning, and the transformation of
trouble into purpose. Orange makes practical suggestions for action
in the psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic communities: reducing
air travel, consolidating organizations and conferences, better use
of internet communication and education. This book includes both
philosophical considerations of egoism (close to psychoanalytic
narcissism) as problematic, together with work on shame and envy as
motivating compulsive and conspicuous consumption. The interweaving
of climate emergency and massive social injustice presents
psychoanalysts and organized psychoanalysis with a radical ethical
demand and an extraordinary opportunity for leadership. Climate
Crisis, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics will provide accessible
and thought-provoking reading for psychoanalysts and
psychotherapists, as well as philosophers, environmental studies
scholars and students studying across these fields.
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