Joanna Ryan

Class and Psychoanalysis (eBook, ePUB)

Landscapes of Inequality

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 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 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317503897
• Artikelnr.: 48211028

Autorenporträt

Joanna Ryan, PhD, is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She has worked widely in clinical practice, teaching and supervision; in academic research; and the politics of psychotherapy. She is co-author (with N. O'Connor) of Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities: Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis; co-editor (with S. Cartledge) of Sex and Love: New Thoughts on Old Contradictions; and author of The Politics of Mental Handicap and many other publications.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Class and Psychoanalysis?
Chapter 2 Asking Questions of History
Chapter 3 Elision and Disavowal: The Extrusion of Class from Psychoanalytic
Theory
Chapter 4 Psychotherapy for the People? Psychoanalysis in some Public
Sectors
Chapter 5 Lived Experiences of Class: Psychosocial and Sociological
Perspectives
Chapter 6 Class and Social Mobility within the Psychoanalytic Field
Chapter 7 Class within Therapy Relationships
Chapter 8 Contemporary Psychoanalytic Writings on Class in the Clinic
Chapter 9 Money and some Political Economies of Psychoanalytic Work
Chapter 10 Speaking Class to Psychoanalysis: