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A Political Psychoanalysis for the Anthropocene Age presents an
evaluation of the politics of climate change and considers how
psychoanalysis can contribute to this discourse. Presented in two
parts, the book first uses a psychoanalytic approach to interrogate
political-economic realities and their impact on shaping Western
political selves in the Anthropocene age. Ryan LaMothe identifies
core illusions of the Western psyche and how they shape behavior
and relations, as well as how they are implicated in various
emotional responses to climate change like eco-mourning and
eco-denial. Topics such as political dwelling, sovereignty,
political violence and change, climate obstacles such as
capitalism, nationalism, and imperialism, and the problem of hope
are explored using psychoanalytic and philosophical perspectives.
LaMothe then considers the role of psychoanalysis in the
public-political realm, as well as how a psychoanalytic political
perspective invites reforming the education and practice of
psychoanalysis. A Political Psychoanalysis for the Anthropocene Age
will be thought-provoking reading for psychoanalysts and
psychotherapists, as well as anyone interested in the politics of
climate change.
A Political Psychoanalysis for the Anthropocene Age presents an
evaluation of the politics of climate change and considers how
psychoanalysis can contribute to this discourse. Presented in two
parts, the book first uses a psychoanalytic approach to interrogate
political-economic realities and their impact on shaping Western
political selves in the Anthropocene age. Ryan LaMothe identifies
core illusions of the Western psyche and how they shape behavior
and relations, as well as how they are implicated in various
emotional responses to climate change like eco-mourning and
eco-denial. Topics such as political dwelling, sovereignty,
political violence and change, climate obstacles such as
capitalism, nationalism, and imperialism, and the problem of hope
are explored using psychoanalytic and philosophical perspectives.
LaMothe then considers the role of psychoanalysis in the
public-political realm, as well as how a psychoanalytic political
perspective invites reforming the education and practice of
psychoanalysis. A Political Psychoanalysis for the Anthropocene Age
will be thought-provoking reading for psychoanalysts and
psychotherapists, as well as anyone interested in the politics of
climate change.
What does it mean to be and feel alive and real? How do we become
and be alive together? Human beings are uniquely concerned with the
question and marvel of what it means to feel alive and real, as
well as the lifelong struggle of being alive together. Becoming
Alive proffers a psychoanalytic theory of experiences of being
alive, acknowledging that analyst and patient, indeed, each of us,
are caught up in the larger drama and mystery of being alive.
Focusing on the challenge in any psychoanalytic theory to
demonstrate the relation between culture, community, and the
individual, LaMothe's theory provides a bridge between the three,
arguing that organizations of experiences of being alive are
inextricably yoked to cultural stories, rituals, and practices.
Enlivened by clinical illustrations and examples drawn from wider
culture, Becoming Alive brings together psychoanalytic
developmental perspectives, infant-parent research, semiotics, and
philosophy in providing a comprehensive, lucid, and systematic
description of subjective and intersubjective experiences of being
alive.
This book explores the growing awareness, brought on by the recent
explosion of communication technology, that all human beings are
citizens of the world. Ryan LaMothe argues that this awareness
comes with an urgent need to address political issues, systems, and
structures at local, state, and international levels that harm
human beings and our one habitat. Through the lens of pastoral
theology, LaMothe analyzes the concepts of care, faith, power, and
community as they are related to addressing local and global
problems linked to neoliberal capitalism, racism and classism.
This book considers the challenges and opportunities of the
Anthropocene Age from the perspective of pastoral theology/care.
The fundamental question and concern with regard to the
Anthropocene Age for human beings and other species is, how are we
to dwell together on this one earth. Care, LaMothe argues, is the
central concept in answering this question. Effective care requires
pastoral theologians to make use of multiple interpretive
frameworks (e.g., theology, philosophy, human sciences, etc.) in
the analytic pursuit of understanding and responding effectively to
the realities of climate change. At the same time, it is also
important for pastoral theologians to examine critically the
theologies and philosophies that give rise to and impede pastoral
interventions and, in the case of the Anthropocene Age, to be clear
about how theologies and philosophies have contributed to
ideologies that undergird both exploitation of the earth and
other-than-human beings, while also contributing to climate change
and obstructing climate action. These are necessary steps in
developing pastoral responses aimed at caring for persons,
communities, and other-than-human beings in need of a viable
dwelling.
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