D.W. Winnicott and Political Theory: Recentering the Subject

Book Overview

Chapter 1: IntroductionMatthew H. Bowker and Amy Buzby
Part I: The Subject's Creation: Aggression, Isolation, and Destruction
Chapter 2: Being and Encountering: Movement and Aggression in WinnicottJeremy Elkins
Chapter 3: The Isolation of the True Self and the Problem of Impingement: Implications of Winnicott's Theory for Social Connection and Political EngagementDavid P. Levine
Chapter 4: The Psychoanalytic Winnicott We Need Now: On the Way to a Real Ecological ThoughtMelissa A. Orlie
Part II: The Subject Faced with Deprivation and Disaster
Chapter 5: Playing 'Riot': Identity in Refuge - Absent Child Narratives in the 2013 Hindu Muslim Riots in Muzaffarnagar, IndiaZehra Mehdi
Chapter 6: Safety in Danger and Privacy in Privation: Ambivalent Fantasies of Natural States Invoked in Reaction to LossMatthew H. Bowker
Chapter 7: 'Out Like a Lion': Melancholia with Euripides and WinnicottBonnie Honig
Chapter 8: Forgiveness and Transitional ExperienceC. Fred Alford
Part III: Revitalizing the Subject of Political Theory
Chapter 9: In Transition, but to where?: Winnicott, Integration, and Democratic Associations David W. McIvor
Chapter 10: Vanquishing the False Self: Winnicott, Critical Theory and the Restoration of the Spontaneous GestureAmy Buzby
Chapter 11: Adults in the Playground: Winnicott and Arendt on Politics and PlayfulnessJohn LeJeune
Part IV: Inter-Subjectivity, Justice, and Equality
Chapter 12: D.W. Winnicott, Ethics, and Race: Psychoanalytic Thought and Racial Equality in the United StatesAlex Zamalin
Chapter 13: Winnicott at Work: Potential Space and the Facilitating OrganizationMichael A. Diamond
Chapter 14: Winnicott and the History of Welfare State Thought in BritainGal Gerson
Chapter 15: Vulnerability, Dependence, Sovereignty, and Ego-Distortion Theory: Psycho-Analyzing Political Behaviors in the Developing WorldRobert C. Chalwell

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349954187
• ISBN13: 9781349954186
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"