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Lost in Perfection - Impacts of Optimisation on Culture and Psyche (Hardcover): Vera King, Benigna Gerisch, Hartmut Rosa Lost in Perfection - Impacts of Optimisation on Culture and Psyche (Hardcover)
Vera King, Benigna Gerisch, Hartmut Rosa
R3,972 Discovery Miles 39 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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'.

Lost in Perfection - Impacts of Optimisation on Culture and Psyche (Paperback): Vera King, Benigna Gerisch, Hartmut Rosa Lost in Perfection - Impacts of Optimisation on Culture and Psyche (Paperback)
Vera King, Benigna Gerisch, Hartmut Rosa
R1,302 Discovery Miles 13 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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'.

Unerreichbares Leben (German, Paperback): Benigna Gerisch Unerreichbares Leben (German, Paperback)
Benigna Gerisch
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R338 Discovery Miles 3 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Unerreichbares Leben (German, Hardcover): Benigna Gerisch Unerreichbares Leben (German, Hardcover)
Benigna Gerisch
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R614 Discovery Miles 6 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Schizoidie Und Schizoide Personlichkeitsstorung - Psychodynamik - Diagnostik - Psychotherapie (German, Paperback): Gerhard... Schizoidie Und Schizoide Personlichkeitsstorung - Psychodynamik - Diagnostik - Psychotherapie (German, Paperback)
Gerhard Dammann, Otto F. Kernberg; Contributions by Benigna Gerisch, Anna Buchheim, Harald Gundel, …
R982 R882 Discovery Miles 8 820 Save R100 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
psychosozial 141 - Perfektionierung und Destruktivitat (German, Paperback): Vera King, Benigna Gerisch psychosozial 141 - Perfektionierung und Destruktivitat (German, Paperback)
Vera King, Benigna Gerisch
R648 Discovery Miles 6 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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