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This groundbreaking book provides a challenging exploration of
psychoanalytic ideas about lesbians and lesbianism. Based on the
authors' clinical experience as psychoanalytic psychotherapists, it
offers a new and thoughtful framework that does not inevitably
pathologise or universalise all lesbianism. A wide range of
psychoanalytic ideas are sur
Does psychoanalysis have anything to say about the emotional
landscapes of class? How can class-inclusive psychoanalytic
projects, historic and contemporary, inform theory and practice?
Class and psychoanalysis are unusual bedfellows, but this original
book shows how much is to be gained by exploring their
relationship. Joanna Ryan provides a comprehensively researched and
challenging overview in which she holds the tension between the
radical and progressive potential of psychoanalysis, in its unique
understandings of the unconscious, with its status as a mainly
expensive and exclusive profession. Class and Psychoanalysis draws
on existing historical scholarship, as well as on the experiences
of the author and other writers in free or low-cost projects, to
show what has been learned from transposing psychoanalysis into
different social contexts. The book describes how class, although
descriptively present, was excluded from the founding theories of
psychoanalysis, leaving a problematic conceptual legacy that the
book attempts to remedy. Joanna Ryan argues for an
interdisciplinary approach, drawing on modern sociological and
psychosocial research to understand the injuries of class, the
complexities of social mobility, and the defenses of privilege. She
brings together contemporary clinical writings with her own
research about class within therapy relationships to illustrate the
anxieties, ambivalences and inhibitions surrounding class, and the
unconsciousness with which it may be enacted. Class and
Psychoanalysis breaks new ground in providing frameworks for a
critical psychoanalysis that includes class. It will be of interest
to anyone who wishes to think psychoanalytically about how we are
intimately formed by class, or who is concerned with the
inequalities of access to psychoanalytic therapies, or with the
future of psychoanalysis.
This groundbreaking book provides a challenging exploration of
psychoanalytic ideas about lesbians and lesbianism. Based on the
authors' clinical experience as psychoanalytic psychotherapists, it
offers a new and thoughtful framework that does not inevitably
pathologise or universalise all lesbianism. A wide range of
psychoanalytic ideas are surveyed, from Freud, Deutsch and Jung to
Lacan and contemporary object-relations theorists. Questions on
sexual identity, sexual desire and gender identity, of transference
and countertransference, and also of institutional practices in
relation to training, are all critically - and stimunlatingly -
addressed.
Does psychoanalysis have anything to say about the emotional
landscapes of class? How can class-inclusive psychoanalytic
projects, historic and contemporary, inform theory and practice?
Class and psychoanalysis are unusual bedfellows, but this original
book shows how much is to be gained by exploring their
relationship. Joanna Ryan provides a comprehensively researched and
challenging overview in which she holds the tension between the
radical and progressive potential of psychoanalysis, in its unique
understandings of the unconscious, with its status as a mainly
expensive and exclusive profession. Class and Psychoanalysis draws
on existing historical scholarship, as well as on the experiences
of the author and other writers in free or low-cost projects, to
show what has been learned from transposing psychoanalysis into
different social contexts. The book describes how class, although
descriptively present, was excluded from the founding theories of
psychoanalysis, leaving a problematic conceptual legacy that the
book attempts to remedy. Joanna Ryan argues for an
interdisciplinary approach, drawing on modern sociological and
psychosocial research to understand the injuries of class, the
complexities of social mobility, and the defenses of privilege. She
brings together contemporary clinical writings with her own
research about class within therapy relationships to illustrate the
anxieties, ambivalences and inhibitions surrounding class, and the
unconsciousness with which it may be enacted. Class and
Psychoanalysis breaks new ground in providing frameworks for a
critical psychoanalysis that includes class. It will be of interest
to anyone who wishes to think psychoanalytically about how we are
intimately formed by class, or who is concerned with the
inequalities of access to psychoanalytic therapies, or with the
future of psychoanalysis.
This celebrated book is a plea for the rights of mentally
handicapped people - an analysis of why we have denied the mentally
handicapped their humanity, and why we so often shut them away in
institutions. In a new chapter, Joanna Ryan examines the reality
behind the government's commitment to community care.
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