What Holds Us Together - Popular Culture and Social Cohesion

Table des matières

1. The popular disciplines of delight 2. The containing matrix of the social 3. The therapeutic culture hypothesis 4. Containment and compression: politics in the therapeutic age

A propos de l'auteur

Barry Richards is Professor of Political Psychology at Bournemouth University. Previously he was Professor of Human Relations at the University of East London, where he led the establishment of teaching and research in psychosocial studies. Before that, he had been a clinical psychologist in the NHS. Amongst his books are 'Images of Freud: Cultural Responses to Psychoanalysis' (1984), 'Disciplines of Delight: The Psychoanalysis of Popular Culture' (1994), and 'Emotional Governance: Politics, Media and Terror' (2007).

Résumé

In this unusual book of political psychology, based on the idea that we hold ourselves together through a combination of restraint and release, the author draws on psychoanalysis and its creative interpretations of everyday experience to consider the current malaise of politics in relation to the huge vitality of popular culture.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Joanne Brown, Karl Figlio, Barry Richards
• Edition: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367102647
• ISBN: 978-0-367-10264-7
• Pages: 132
• Thème: The Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture Series
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Général, dictionnaires; Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)