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This volume takes up perspectives from object relations theory and
other psychoanalytic approaches to ask questions about the role of
television as an object of the internal worlds of its viewers, and
also addresses itself to a range of specific television programs,
ranging from Play School, through the plays of Jack Rosenthal to
recent TV blockbuster series such as In Treatment . In addition, it
considers the potential of television to open up new public spaces
of therapeutic experience. At the same time, however, the pitfalls
of reality programming are explored with reference to the politics
of entertainment and the televisual values that heighten the drama
of representation rather than emphasizing the emotional experience
of reality television participants and viewers. A recurring theme
throughout is that television becomes a psychological object for
its viewers and producers, maintaining the psychological "status
quo" on the one hand and yet simultaneously opening up playful
spaces of creative, therapeutic engagement for these groups. This
collection of essays arises from a conference organized by the
Media and the Inner World research network in collaboration with
the Freud Museum."
Despite the prominence of television in our everyday lives,
psychoanalytic approaches to its significance and function are
notoriously few and far between. This volume takes up perspectives
from object relations theory and other psychoanalytic approaches to
ask questions about the role of television as an object of the
internal worlds of its viewers, and also addresses itself to a
range of specific television programmes, ranging from Play School,
through the plays of Jack Rosenthal to recent TV blockbuster series
such as In Treatment. In addition, it considers the potential of
television to open up new public spaces of therapeutic experience.
Interviews with a TV producer and with the subject of a documentary
expressly suggest that there is scope for television to make a
positive therapeutic intervention in people's lives. At the same
time, however, the pitfalls of reality programming are explored
with reference to the politics of entertainment and the televisual
values that heighten the drama of representation rather than
emphasising the emotional experience of reality television
participants and viewers.
Offering a uniquely 'psycho-cultural' take on the emotional
dynamics of UK political culture this book uses theories and
research in psychoanalysis, cultural and media studies and
political sociology. It explores the cultural and emotional
processes that shape our relationship to politics in a media age,
referencing Joanna Lumley to Nigel Farage.
Since Freud, psychoanalysis has always concerned itself with
questions of art, creativity, politics, and war. This collection of
essays from leading writers on psychoanalysis explores questions of
culture through a close dialogue between psychoanalytic clinical
and academic traditions. "Culture and the Unconscious" is a major
contribution to these debates. With accessible introductions to its
central themes, the book opens up conversations between the spheres
of art, academia and psychoanalysis, revealing points of
commonality and divergence.
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