Psychoanalysis, Culture and Contemporary Discontents: A Time of Technology, Fanaticism and Pandemics Rubinstein Ricardo Alejandro
Psychoanalysis, Culture and Contemporary Discontents: A Time of Technology, Fanaticism and Pandemics Rubinstein Ricardo Alejandro Ricardo Rubinstein explores the contemporary culture and its…
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Psychoanalysis, Culture and Contemporary Discontents: A Time of Technology, Fanaticism and Pandemics Rubinstein Ricardo Alejandro
Ricardo Rubinstein explores the contemporary culture and its discontents - including subjectivity, fanaticism, panic attacks, technology, and pandemics - through a psychoanalytic lens.Each chapter considers an aspect of modern society and attempts to unpick these complex facets of the world we live in. Rubinstein also considers the restrictions put in place on the lives of millions of people as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and examines human adaptation to restrictive conditions. Psychoanalytic understandings of the triggers and socio-environmental factors of panic attacks, the inner worlds of people attracted to fanatical beliefs and risky behaviors, and our dependence on technology for our most vital activities are explored in an accessible way.
Psychoanalysis, Culture and Contemporary Discontents is illustrated throughout with clinical vignettes from the