Psychoanalysis, Culture and Contemporary Discontents - A Time of Technology, Fanaticism and Pandemics

Ricardo Rubinstein explores contemporary culture and its discontents - including subjectivity, fanaticism, panic attacks, technology, and pandemics - through a psychoanalytic lens.

List of contents

Introduction  1. Panic Attack  2. Danger erotization, adventure, and addiction to adrenaline  3. Fanaticism  4. New technologies, subjectivity, and addictive tendencies  5. Pandemics  Conclusion

About the author

Ricardo Alejandro Rubinstein is a doctor, psychiatrist, training psychoanalyst of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association, and full member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He has also been a Professor at the Center of Psychoanalytical Teaching. He is the author of Sports on the Couch (Routledge, 2017), which is also available in Spanish and Romanian.

Summary

Ricardo Rubinstein explores contemporary culture and its discontents – including subjectivity, fanaticism, panic attacks, technology, and pandemics – through a psychoanalytic lens.

Product details

• Authors: Ricardo Alejandro Rubinstein, Ricardo Alejandro (International Psych Rubinstein
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9781032276335
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3227633-5
• No. of pages: 128
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis