Psychoanalysis and the GlObal
Understanding the psychological dimensions of global interactions
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
Published:1st Sep '18
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This insightful work, Psychoanalysis and the GlObal, examines the psychological dimensions of globalization, revealing unconscious desires and tensions that complicate global interactions.
Exploring the complexities of globalization, Psychoanalysis and the GlObal delves into the inherent instability and indecipherability at the heart of the global landscape. Through a psychoanalytic lens, the contributors reveal the unconscious desires, excesses, and antagonisms that accompany the intricate web of economic flows, cultural exchanges, and sociopolitical transformations. This work challenges the conventional narratives of globalization that often overlook the underlying tensions and contradictions that define our interconnected world.
The authors draw on Lacanian theory to uncover what is termed 'the Real' of globalization, highlighting its rifts, gaps, and exceptions. Unlike mainstream discussions that typically celebrate the seamless movement across borders, this collection emphasizes the emotional and psychological dimensions that complicate our understanding of global interactions. The contributors interrogate how trauma and emotional conflicts shape the disjunctures and homogeneities that characterize contemporary globalization.
Psychoanalysis and the GlObal also addresses the unconscious circuits of enjoyment, racism, and anxiety that can undermine the economic, cultural, and environmental aspirations of globalization. By examining the manifestation of social passions in various contexts—from political economy to climate change and refugee politics—this book represents a significant advancement in both the understanding of globalization and the application of psychoanalytic critique in geographic discourse.
“Psychoanalysis and the GlObal brilliantly confirms Jacques Lacan’s thesis that the unconscious is political. It not merely applies psychoanalysis to global economic and political movements; it reveals how the unconscious itself is already traversed by social and political antagonisms. For this reason alone, this edited volume by Ilan Kapoor is obligatory reading, not only for those who want to penetrate the dark underside of our social life but also for those who want to bring out the economic and political mediation of our most intimate traumas.”—Slavoj Žižek, senior researcher, Institute for Sociology and Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
“This collection demonstrates the fecundity of thinking spatially through psychoanalysis, and psychoanalytically through space. Neither psychoanalysis nor geography will be the same. Entering these pages, readers find a world upside-down, where consciousness dissolves into its dirty, multifarious, and unconscious splendor, providing us with analytical and practical means for imagining a world beyond ‘the end of the Anthropocene.’”—Heidi J. Nast, professor in the International Studies Program at DePaul University
“There is no more pressing time to be using psychoanalytic theory than now, and this book demonstrates the urgency of this task almost with every turn of the page. It is a pathbreaking —‘next generation’—analysis, revealing the power of psychoanalytic geographies in addressing key global challenges.”—Steve Pile, professor of human geography at the Open University
ISBN: 9781496207326
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342 pages