Identity Crisis: Modernity, Psychoanalysis and the Self (Communications & Culture) - Softcover

Frosh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333511077 ISBN 13: 9780333511077

Verlag: Red Globe Press, 1991

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<DIV>THIS BOOK EXAMINES THE PSYCHOLOGICAL RESPONSES OF PEOPLE TO THE EXCITEMENTS AND TERRORS THAT CHARACTERISE THE MODERN WORLD. BEGINNING WITH A DESCRIPTION OF MODERNIST AND POST-MODERNIST ACCOUNTS OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE, IT THEN MOVES INTO DETAILED DISCUSSIONS OF NARCISSISM AND PSYCHOSIS - TWO STATES OF MIND THAT SEEM TO CHARACTERISE THE 'CRISES OF SELF' TO WHICH THE MODERN WORLD GIVES RISE.</DIV><DIV><BR/></DIV><DIV>WITH AN INTERWEAVING OF SOCIAL THEORY AND PSYCHODYNAMIC EXPLANATIONS, THIS IS A SOPHISTICATED AND COMPELLING TEXT. IDENTITY CRISIS WILL BE OF INTEREST TO STUDENTS IN A WIDE RANGE OF DISCIPLINES INCLUDING PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, PSYCHOANALYSIS, POLITICS AND CULTURAL STUDIES. <BR/></DIV><DIV><BR/></DIV>

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Reseña del editor:

This book examines the psychological responses of people to the excitements and terrors that characterise the modern world. Beginning with a description of modernist and post-modernist accounts of contemporary life, it then moves into detailed discussions of narcissism and psychosis - two states of mind that seem to characterise the 'crises of self' to which the modern world gives rise.
With an interweaving of social theory and psychodynamic explanations, this is a sophisticated and compelling text. Identity Crisis will be of interest to students in a wide range of disciplines including psychology, sociology, psychoanalysis, politics and cultural studies. 

Biografía del autor:

Stephen Frosh is Pro-Vice-Master and Professor in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, and was previously Vice-Dean of the Tavistock Clinic. He is the author of many books and papers on psychosocial studies and on psychoanalysis, including Psychoanalysis Outside the Clinic, Hate and the Jewish Science: Anti-Semitism, Nazism and Psychoanalysis, For and Against Psychoanalysis, After Words, The Politics of Psychoanalysis and Sexual Difference and Identity Crisis. His most recent books are Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions and A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory.

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• Verlag: Red Globe Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0333511077
• ISBN 13: 9780333511077
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 220