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Lost in Perfection - Impacts of Optimisation on Culture and Psyche (Paperback)
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Lost in Perfection - Impacts of Optimisation on Culture and Psyche (Paperback)
Series: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
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The permanent struggle for optimisation can be seen as one of the
most significant cultural principles of contemporary Western
societies: the demand for improved performance and efficiency as
well as the pursuit of self-improvement are con-sidered necessary
in order to keep pace with an accelerated, competitive modern-ity.
This affects not only work and education, but also family life,
parent-child relationships and intimate relationships in respect to
the body and the self, in regard to the public as well as the
private realm. Bringing together contributions from renowned
scholars from the fields of sociology, psychology and
psycho-analysis, this book explores the impacts of optimisation on
culture and psyche, examining the contradictions and limitations of
optimisation, in conjunction with the effects of social
transformations on individuals and shifts in regard to the meaning
of 'pathology' and 'normality'.
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