Acknowledgements
Introduction: Psychoanalysis, exterior and interior
Chapter 1. Object relations in groups: Populist nationalism and identity
Chapter 2. Religious belief, charity and crooked cures
Chapter 3. War breaking out, in inner and outer space
Chapter 4. Critical theory, individuality, enlightenment and the psy-complex
Chapter 5. Authoritarianism and masculinity: Forever Jung in the manosphere
Chapter 6. Cultures of narcissism and nature: Naturism after enlightenment
Chapter 7. The symbolic, deferred action and the real in cyberspace
Chapter 8. Mirroring: Analysing or escaping the ‘local economy’ with Althusser and Kristeva
Chapter 9. Psychoanalytic clinical practice now: Therapeutic culture in action
References
Biography
Ian Parker is co-founder of the Discourse Unit and Managing Editor of Annual Review of Critical Psychology, author and editor of numerous books and articles about psychoanalysis, a practicing psychoanalyst and revolutionary Marxist.
“A book that changed our understanding of the relationship between psychoanalysis and cultural theory, inspiring countless consequences for social critique and for the contemporary turn toward politics. Psychoanalysts have devoted themselves to interpreting the world; the time has come to transform it. This is the message and the call to action that the reader will find here.”
Christian Dunker, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
“It is common to regard psychoanalysis as universally valid, independent of culture, and therefore capable of explaining it. Some go further, recognising that the Freudian legacy is itself a product of modern European culture, reflecting a particular form of subjectivity. But one can go further still, to see that our culture is itself psychoanalytic, and that our subjectivity does not merely find expression in Freud's ideas —it is also determined by them. This is the insight that Ian Parker develops in this original and compelling book by exploring how psychoanalysis lies at the heart of our way of being, shaping the complex and contradictory ways in which we constitute and understand ourselves in modernity.”
David Pavón-Cuéllar, Universidad Michoacana, Mexico
