Toward a Social Psychoanalysis : Culture, Character, and Normative Unconscious Processes Hardback
by Lynne (Harvard Medical School, USA) Layton
Edited by Marianna Leavy-Sperounis
Part of the Relational Perspectives Book Series series
Hardback
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Frantz Fanon, Erich Fromm, Pierre Bourdieu, and Marie Langer are among those activists, clinicians, and academics who have called for a social psychoanalysis.
For over thirty years, Lynne Layton has heeded this call and produced a body of work that examines unconscious process as it operates both in the social world and in the clinic. In this volume of Layton's most important papers, she expands on earlier theorists' ideas of social character by exploring how dominant ideologies and culturally mandated, hierarchical identity prescriptions are lived in individual and relational conflict.
Through clinical and cultural examples, Layton describes how enactments of what she calls 'normative unconscious processes' reinforce cultural inequalities of race, sex, gender, and class both inside and outside the clinic, and at individual, interpersonal, and institutional levels. Clinicians, academics, and activists alike will find here a deeper understanding of the power of unconscious process, and are called on to envision and enact a progressive future in which vulnerability and interdependency are honored and systemic inequalities dismantled.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:308 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:17/03/2020
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- ISBN:9780367902056
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:308 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:17/03/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9780367902056
