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Dieter Flader explores how current social and cultural concerns are connected to the unconscious, and how this affects our responses to them.
List of contents
Introduction
Part I: Basic Assumptions and Some Concepts of the Psychoanalytic Theory of Action1. The act signature of the unconscious - a new approach of psychoanalytic cultural critique
Part II: Mobbing and Its Connection to the Unconscious 1. What Is Mobbing? The Social Interaction Process of an Unresolved Mental Problem
Part III. Depth Psychological Aspects of the Public Debate about Climate Change1. A Psychoanalytical Approach to Climate Change Awareness
Part IV. Other Contemporary Cultural Phenomena and their Connection to the Unconscious1. Contemporary Problems of Leadership in Social Organisations
2. A Modern Model of Successful Management and its Psychoanalytical Interpretation
3. Television Programmes as a Mirror of Narcissistic Problem Situations
4. An Action-Oriented Analysis of Films by A. Hitchcock and S. King
5. Vegetarians and Vegans: The Link Between Psychology and Political Effectiveness
6. A Brief Summary
Part V. Psychonalaysis in the Perception of Modern Science1. Psychoanalysis from the Perspective of the Social Sciences
2. The Psychology of Narcissitic Epidemics (J. Twenge & W. Campbell)
Conclusion
About the author
Professor Dieter Flader is co-director of the Berlin Institute for Applied Human Studies and adjunct professor at the Free University of Berlin, Germany.
Summary
Dieter Flader explores how current social and cultural concerns are connected to the unconscious, and how this affects our responses to them.
