Matza Tomas Matza

Shock Therapy (eBook, PDF)

Psychology, Precarity, and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia

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Produktbeschreibung

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia witnessed a dramatic increase in psychotherapeutic options, which promoted social connection while advancing new forms of capitalist subjectivity amid often-wrenching social and economic transformations. In Shock Therapy Tomas Matza provides an ethnography of post-Soviet Saint Petersburg, following psychotherapists, psychologists, and their clients as they navigate the challenges of post-Soviet life. Juxtaposing personal growth and success seminars for elites with crisis counseling and remedial interventions for those on public assistance, Matza shows how profound inequalities are emerging in contemporary Russia in increasingly intimate ways as matters of selfhood. Extending anthropologies of neoliberalism and care in new directions, Matza offers a profound meditation on the interplay between ethics, therapy, and biopolitics, as well as a sensitive portrait of everyday caring practices in the face of the confounding promise of postsocialist democracy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822371953
• Artikelnr.: 54793642

Autorenporträt

Tomas Matza

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Prelude: Bury That Part of Oneself  xvii
Introduction: An Yet . . .  1
Part I. Biopoliticus Interruptus  31
Interlude: Russian Shoes  33
1. "Tears of Bitterness and Joy": The Haunting Subject in Soviet
Biopolitics  37
Part II. (In)Commensurability  67
Interlude: Family Problems  69
2. "Wait, and the Train Will Have Left": The Success Complex and
Psychological Difference  71
3. "Now, Finally, We are Starting to Relax": On Civilizing Missions and
Democratic Desire  104
4. "What Do We Have the Right to Do?": Tactical Guidance at a Social
Margin  133
Part III. In Search of a Politics  165
Interlude: Public Spaces  167
5. "I Can Feel His Tears": Psychosociality under Putin  171
6. "Hello, Lena, You Are on the Air": Talk-Show Selves and the Dream of
Public Intimacy  197
Postlude: Subjects of Freedom  225
Conclusion: And Yet . . . So What?  227
Notes  243
References  275
Index  295