1st Edition

Television and Psychoanalysis Psycho-Cultural Perspectives

Edited By Caroline Bainbridge, Ivan Ward, Candida Yates Copyright 2014
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

Despite the prominence of television in our everyday lives, psychoanalytic approaches to its significance and function are notoriously few and far between. This volume takes up perspectives from object relations theory and other psychoanalytic approaches to ask questions about the role of television as an object of the internal worlds of its viewers, and also addresses itself to a range of... Read more
Series Preface , Preface , Psychoanalysis and television: notes towards a psycho-cultural approach , The View from the Couch , Television as Rorschach: the unconscious use of the cathode nipple , Psychotherapy on the couch: exploring the fantasies of In Treatment , Television as Transitional Object , BBC Play School: playing with transitional, transitory, and transformational space , Family romances in Jack Rosenthal’s television drama , Spending too much time watching TV? , Television Experiences , Television as “docutherapy”: an interview with Richard McKerrow and Jonathan Phang , TV times at the Freud Museum

Biography

Caroline Bainbridge