Psychopolitics of Speech

Psychopolitics of Speech
Author: James Martin
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2019-05-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3839439191

The human capacity for speech is forever celebrated as evidence of its innate civility. Why, then, is public discourse often - and today more than ever, it would seem - so uncivil, even delusional? The reason, argues James Martin in this timely book, lies in the way speech works to organise desire. More than knowledge or rational interests, public speech services an unconscious urge for a lost enjoyment, stimulating an excess in subjectivity that moves us in body and mind. James Martin draws upon the work of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan as well as other Continental thinkers to set out a new approach to the analysis of rhetoric and answer the troubling question of whether civil discourse can ever hope to escape its obscene underside.

Psychopolitics

Psychopolitics
Author: Byung-Chul Han
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2017-12-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1784785776

Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psyche Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault’s biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche. In the course of discussing all the facets of neoliberal psychopolitics fueling our contemporary crisis of freedom, Han elaborates an analytical framework that provides an original theory of Big Data and a lucid phenomenology of emotion. But this provocative essay proposes counter models too, presenting a wealth of ideas and surprising alternatives at every turn.

Sloterdijk Now

Sloterdijk Now
Author: Stuart Elden
Publisher: Polity
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0745651364

This book represents the first major engagement with Sloterdijk's thought in the English language, and will provoke new debates across the humanities. The collection ranges across the full breadth of Sloterdijk's work, covering such key topics as cynicism, ressentiment, posthumanism and the role of the public intellectual.

Critical Psychology

Critical Psychology
Author: Derek Hook
Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd
Total Pages: 676
Release: 2004
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781919713885

Offers a broad introduction to critical psychology and explores the socio-political contexts of post-apartheid South Africa. This title expands on the theoretical resources usually referred to in the field of critical psychology by providing substantive discussions on Black Consciousness, Post-colonialism and Africanist forms of critique.

Hearings

Hearings
Author: United States. Congress Senate
Publisher:
Total Pages: 2574
Release: 1958
Genre:
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Psycho-Politics And Cultural Desires

Psycho-Politics And Cultural Desires
Author: Janet Harbord
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2005-08-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 113536009X

A cultural studies textbook that deals with issues of methodology, as well as mapping out the history and theories and ideas in cultural studies. The book examines the work of Raymond Williams, Lacan and Hoggart, among Others, And Explores Notions Of Subculture, Psychoanalysis, Marxist thought, narrative, autobiography, fiction, subjectivity, language, history and representation. The book focuses on the past, present and future of cultural studies, with the aim of providing readers with a clear overview of the central ideas within the area, developing current debates and possible future avenues.

Psychology and Capitalism

Psychology and Capitalism
Author: Ron Roberts
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2015-02-27
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1782796533

Psychology and Capitalism is a critical and accessible account of the ideological and material role of psychology in supporting capitalist enterprise and holding individuals entirely responsible for their fate through the promotion of individualism.

Deconstructing Psychopathology

Deconstructing Psychopathology
Author: Ian Parker
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1995
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780803974814

Accessible and practical, Deconstructing Psychopathology provides a critical perspective on the institutions, practices, and presuppositions that underlie the study of psychopathology. The authors, who come from such areas as clinical psychology, psychiatric social work, psychoanalysis, and action research, challenge the traditions of the field in three ways: First, they analyze the notion of psychopathology as a conventional term in psychology and psychiatry, through the language and institutions that keep it in place. Next, they explore the deconstructive responses and resources and their implications for the theoretical practices that sustain clinical treatments. And finally, they offer an alternative way of seeing psychopathology along with practical models for critical professional work and good practice.

Asylum to Action

Asylum to Action
Author: Helen Spandler
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2006-02-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1846424879

Asylum to Action offers an alternative history of a libertarian therapeutic community at Paddington Day Hospital in West London in the 1970s. Helen Spandler recaptures the radical aspirations, as well as the conflicts, of the early therapeutic community movement, radical psychiatry and the patients' movement. The author's account of the formation of the Mental Patients' Union, the first politicised psychiatric survivors group in the UK, raises questions about the connections between the service user movement, therapeutic communities, critiques of psychiatry and psychoanalytic models of intervention. In particular, Spandler challenges Claire Baron's dominant account of the subject in her influential book Asylum to Anarchy. She points out that some of the key difficulties that beset Paddington Day Hospital persist in modern therapeutic community practice and, indeed, in mental health services in general. Arguing that these dilemmas require sustained attention, Asylum to Action also informs a wider analysis of the significance of social movements, social action and critical social theory.