1st Edition
Managed Lives: Psychoanalysis, inner security and the social order Psychoanalysis and the Administrative Task
Part I: The Criterion of Maturity. The Winnicottian Typology of Management. Reclamation and the Unthinkable. Society’s Permanent Task. Part II: The Reflexive Norm. Norms and Facts. Illness and Identity. Vulnerability and Trauma. Part III: The Managed Society. Basic Security. The Regulated Life. Conclusion: The Difficult Task.
Biography
Steven Groarke is a reader in Social Theory at the University of Roehampton, a psychoanalyst of the British Psycho-Analytical Society and a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He currently works in private practice in London.
"This is a difficult book, dense with learned references, and I have certainly not done it justice by the simplified overview I have attempted here. Few readers will be familiar with all three of Groarke’s thinkers and it serves as a valuable introduction and commentary on their thought."- David M. Black, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis
"Managed Lives not only provides an excellent overview of the relationship between psychoanalysis and governmentality, but furthermore, suggests a conceptual framework that could help guide ethical living at a time in which institutions of social control are commonly perceived as being ‘finished’ (Deleuze,1992: 4). That is, Managed Lives offers a way of thinking about the regulation of life in a progressive and potentially transformative manner." – Megan Clinch, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, UK, for The British Sociological Association
