Class And Psychoanalysis: Landscapes Of Inequality
by Joanna Ryan /
2017 / English / PDF
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Does psychoanalysis have anything to say about the emotional
landscapes of class? How can class-inclusive psychoanalytic
projects, historic and contemporary, inform theory and practice?
Class and psychoanalysis are unusual bedfellows, but this
original book shows how much is to be gained by exploring their
relationship. Joanna Ryan provides a comprehensively researched
and challenging overview in which she holds the tension between
the radical and progressive potential of psychoanalysis, in its
unique understandings of the unconscious, with its status as a
mainly expensive and exclusive profession.
Does psychoanalysis have anything to say about the emotional
landscapes of class? How can class-inclusive psychoanalytic
projects, historic and contemporary, inform theory and practice?
Class and psychoanalysis are unusual bedfellows, but this
original book shows how much is to be gained by exploring their
relationship. Joanna Ryan provides a comprehensively researched
and challenging overview in which she holds the tension between
the radical and progressive potential of psychoanalysis, in its
unique understandings of the unconscious, with its status as a
mainly expensive and exclusive profession.Class and Psychoanalysis
Class and Psychoanalysis draws on existing historical
scholarship, as well as on the experiences of the author and
other writers in free or low-cost projects, to show what has been
learned from transposing psychoanalysis into different social
contexts. The book describes how class, although
descriptively present, was excluded from the founding theories of
psychoanalysis, leaving a problematic conceptual legacy that the
book attempts to remedy. Joanna Ryan argues for an
interdisciplinary approach, drawing on modern sociological and
psychosocial research to understand the injuries of class, the
complexities of social mobility, and the defenses of privilege.
She brings together contemporary clinical writings with her own
research about class within therapy relationships to illustrate
the anxieties, ambivalences and inhibitions surrounding class,
and the unconsciousness with which it may be enacted.
draws on existing historical
scholarship, as well as on the experiences of the author and
other writers in free or low-cost projects, to show what has been
learned from transposing psychoanalysis into different social
contexts. The book describes how class, although
descriptively present, was excluded from the founding theories of
psychoanalysis, leaving a problematic conceptual legacy that the
book attempts to remedy. Joanna Ryan argues for an
interdisciplinary approach, drawing on modern sociological and
psychosocial research to understand the injuries of class, the
complexities of social mobility, and the defenses of privilege.
She brings together contemporary clinical writings with her own
research about class within therapy relationships to illustrate
the anxieties, ambivalences and inhibitions surrounding class,
and the unconsciousness with which it may be enacted.Class and Psychoanalysis
Class and Psychoanalysis breaks new ground in providing
frameworks for a critical psychoanalysis that includes
class. It will be of interest to anyone who wishes to
think psychoanalytically about how we are intimately formed by
class, or who is concerned with the inequalities of access to
psychoanalytic therapies, or with the future of psychoanalysis.
breaks new ground in providing
frameworks for a critical psychoanalysis that includes
class. It will be of interest to anyone who wishes to
think psychoanalytically about how we are intimately formed by
class, or who is concerned with the inequalities of access to
psychoanalytic therapies, or with the future of psychoanalysis.