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What can contemporary psychoanalysis bring to the understanding of
Generation X, a cohort for whom the trivialization of a dizzying
array of possible experiences teamed with the pressure to lead
spectacular lives often leads to diffuse feelings of confusion,
depression, and disorientation. The Designed Self chronicles
Strenger's therapeutic encounters with five extraordinarily gifted
young adults for whom the ideal of authenticity long associated
with the Baby-Boom generation was supplanted by the need to
experiment endlessly with the self. Perpetual self-experimentation,
constantly reinforced by the media, came to encompass everything
from career choice, to hair color, to body shape, to gender
identity. In compelling clinical stories, Strenger introduces us to
patients for whom the project of shaping the self had become a
cultural imperative no less than an expression of individuality. At
once insightful and cautionary, The Designed Self investigates how
psychoanalysis must change if it is to claim cultural relevance and
therapeutic effectiveness in The Age of the Designed Self.
What can contemporary psychoanalysis bring to the understanding of
Generation X, a cohort for whom the trivialization of a dizzying
array of possible experiences teamed with the pressure to lead
spectacular lives often leads to diffuse feelings of confusion,
depression, and disorientation. "The Designed Self" chronicles
Strenger's therapeutic encounters with five extraordinarily gifted
young adults for whom the ideal of authenticity long associated
with the Baby-Boom generation was supplanted by the need to
experiment endlessly with the self. Perpetual self-experimentation,
constantly reinforced by the media, came to encompass everything
from career choice, to hair color, to body shape, to gender
identity. In compelling clinical stories, Strenger introduces us to
patients for whom the project of shaping the self had become a
cultural imperative no less than an expression of individuality. At
once insightful and cautionary, "The Designed Self" investigates
how psychoanalysis must change if it is to claim cultural relevance
and therapeutic effectiveness in The Age of the Designed Self.
Freud's Legacy in the Global Era presents a radically new
perspective on Freud's relevance today as a forerunner of the
contemporary evolutionary neurosciences also steeped in the
tradition of humanistic thought. Carlo Strenger shows how
globalisation has produced new theoretical, practical and clinical
issues for psychoanalysis, which can best be understood by drawing
on influences from economics, sociology and philosophy. Strenger's
lively case histories demonstrate a new psychoanalytic viewpoint
engaged with surrounding scientific disciplines in an enriching
interchange, and open to the fascinating cultural and social
developments that shape patients' reality, lives and concerns in a
global era. This book will be of interest to psychoanalysts,
psychoanalytic and psychodynamically oriented psychotherapists and
to all mental health professionals interested in the interaction of
psychoanalysis and other disciplines from a global viewpoint as
well as to lay readers keen to understand the complexity of
globalized life.
Freud's Legacy in the Global Era presents a radically new
perspective on Freud's relevance today as a forerunner of the
contemporary evolutionary neurosciences also steeped in the
tradition of humanistic thought. Carlo Strenger shows how
globalisation has produced new theoretical, practical and clinical
issues for psychoanalysis, which can best be understood by drawing
on influences from economics, sociology and philosophy. Strenger's
lively case histories demonstrate a new psychoanalytic viewpoint
engaged with surrounding scientific disciplines in an enriching
interchange, and open to the fascinating cultural and social
developments that shape patients' reality, lives and concerns in a
global era. This book will be of interest to psychoanalysts,
psychoanalytic and psychodynamically oriented psychotherapists and
to all mental health professionals interested in the interaction of
psychoanalysis and other disciplines from a global viewpoint as
well as to lay readers keen to understand the complexity of
globalized life.
How should we approach the psychological study of religion, and how
relevant is classical psychoanalysis, identified with the writings
of Sigmund Freud, to the understanding of religion? Freud's
writings on religion have been discussed often and continue to
attract attention and debate. Psychoanalysis and Theism starts with
an essay by Adolf Grunbaum, one of the world's leading philosophers
of science and an incisive critic of Freud's work. Grunbaum looks
at Freud's general claims about the psychological mechanisms
involved in religion and finds them lacking. Then, in a surprising
turn, Grunbaum judges some of Freud's interpretations of concrete
religious ideas and practices to be not only cogent, but
indispensable. When it comes to the case of the belief in Virgin
Birth, Grunbaum finds an Oedipal interpretation to be our only
choice. This remarkable essay is the stimulus for a symposium with
nine senior scholars, coming from the fields of philosophy,
psychology, sociology, and psychoanalysis, who present their
critical reflections on how we should study religion, how we should
treat Freud's ideas, and what the future directions in
psychological research on concrete religious behavior should be.
The contributors bring to this effort their varied fields of
expertise, from analytical philosophy to experimental psychology.
Of special interest are essays which deal with the Virgin Birth
doctrine and its possible psychological sources and with the
potential for future psychoanalytic studies of faith and ritual.
Other essays focus on Freud's conscious and unconscious motivations
for studying religion as well as the hidden biases and lacunae
found in the social science literature on religious practices. This
volume adds a unique combination of critical and knowledgeable
voices to the debate on Sigmund Freud's legacy."
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