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Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
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Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
Series: The New Library of Psychoanalysis 'Beyond the Couch' Series
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Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism provides rich new
insights into the history of political thought and clinical
knowledge. In these chapters, internationally renowned historians
and cultural theorists discuss landmark debates about the uses and
abuses of 'the talking cure' and map the diverse psychologies and
therapeutic practices that have featured in and against tyrannical,
modern regimes. These essays show both how the Freudian movement
responded to and was transformed by the rise of fascism and
communism, the Second World War, and the Cold War, and how powerful
new ideas about aggression, destructiveness, control, obedience and
psychological freedom were taken up in the investigation of
politics. They identify important intersections between clinical
debate, political analysis, and theories of minds and groups, and
trace influential ideas about totalitarianism that took root in
modern culture after 1918, and still resonate in the twenty-first
century. At the same time, they suggest how the emergent discourses
of 'totalitarian' society were permeated by visions of the
unconscious. Topics include: the psychoanalytic theorizations of
anti-Semitism; the psychological origins and impact of Nazism; the
post-war struggle to rebuild liberal democracy; state-funded
experiments in mind control in Cold War America; coercive
're-education' programmes in Eastern Europe, and the role of
psychoanalysis in the politics of decolonization. A concluding trio
of chapters argues, in various ways, for the continuing relevance
of psychoanalysis, and of these mid-century debates over the
psychology of power, submission and freedom in modern mass society.
Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism will prove compelling
for both specialists and readers with a general interest in modern
psychology, politics, culture and society, and in psychoanalysis.
The material is relevant for academics and post-graduate students
in the human, social and political sciences, the clinical
professions, the historical profession and the humanities more
widely.
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