| Description |
viii, 248 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Disseminations, psychoanalysis in contexts |
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Disseminations.
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| Contents |
Pt. I - Psychoanalysis and science -- Ch. 1. - Psychoanalysis: The Last Modernism? -- Ch. 2. - 'Give Me a Consulting Room...' The Generation of Psychoanalytic Knowledge -- Ch. 3. - What Do We See in the Nursery? Infant Observation as Laboratory Work -- Ch. 4. - Research, Evidence and Psychotherapy -- Ch. 5. - A Biographical Turn in Social Science? -- Pt. II. - Psychoanalysis and Politics. -- Ch. 6. - The Roots of Reason. -- Ch. 7. - Lacan, Klein and Politics: The Positive and Negative in Psychoanalytic Thought -- Ch. 8. - Facilitator or Corrupter? The Place of Money in Psychoanalysis -- Ch. 9. - Innate Morality: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Moral Education -- Ch. 10. - Learning and Relationship: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Educational Practice |
| Summary |
"Reason and Unreason explores issues concerning the justification and legitimacy of psychoanalytic knowledge, and its relevance to political and social questions. Part one explores the achievements of the British psychoanalytic tradition, relating these to recent developments on the sociological understanding of the sciences. The argument over the legitimacy of psychoanalysis is advanced beyond sterile polemics towards a more complex and self-confident understanding of its distinctive features and contributions." "The book's second major theme concerns the relevance of psychoanalysis to social and political understanding. Psychoanalysis is here identified as a late form of 'modernism', providing coherent and profound ways of thinking about the needs of society. Public policy, Michael Rustin argues, would be more effective if based on a psychoanalytically-informed understanding of relational needs and unconscious anxieties."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-242) and index |
| Subject |
Social sciences and psychoanalysis.
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Psychoanalysis.
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| ISBN |
0826455778 hardback |
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0826455786 paperback |
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