Joseph Dodds

Psychoanalysis and Ecology at the Edge of Chaos

Complexity Theory, Deleuze, Guattari and Psychoanalysis for a Climate in Crisis

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Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that psychoanalysis has a unique role to play in the climate change debate through its placing emphasis on the unconscious dimensions of our mental and social lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780415666114
• ISBN-10: 0415666112
• Artikelnr.: 32729198

Autorenporträt

Joseph Dodds, PhD, is a psychoanalyst in private practice (Czech Psychoanalytical Society, International Psychoanalytical Association), a senior lecturer in psychoanalysis at the Anglo-American University, a psychology lecturer at the University of New York in Prague, and a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Jordan, Foreword. Part I: Climate Change: A Psychological Problem.
Climate Crisis: Psychoanalysis and the Ecology of Ideas. Theoretical
Crisis: Complexity as Meta-theory. Ecology at the Edge of Chaos. Part II:
The Phantasy of Ecology: The Psychoanalysis of Climate Change. Classical
Psychoanalysis. Eco-anxiety and Defence. Object Relations Theory: A More
Ecological Approach to Mind. Part III: The Ecology of Phantasy.
Ecopsychology and the Greening of Psychotherapy. Ecology without Nature:
Postmodern Ecopsychoanalysis. Becoming-animal and Horror. The Zoological
Imagination. Part IV: Nonlinear Ecopsychoanalysis. Entering the Nonlinear
World. The Ecology and Complexity of Psychoanalysis. Deleuze Guattari and
the Ecology of Mind. Ecopsychoanalysis and the Future of the Three
Ecologies.