Psychoanalytic Culture: Psychoanalytic Discourse in Western Society

by Ian Parker and Ian Patrick

Book Overview

Parker systematically reviews the key psychoanalytic theories to reveal social processes and their significance to modern life: Freud and object relations theory is directed towards group processes, religion and war; the Frankfurt School is used to examine modern individuality, authoritarianism and changes in culture; and the Lacanian tradition to account for language, representation and self-improvement. The theoretical analysis incorporates throughout...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761956433
• ISBN13: 9780761956433
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.1"