Meaning and Melancholia
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Meaning and Melancholia

Life in the Age of Bewilderment

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Meaning and Melancholia

Life in the Age of Bewilderment

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Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment sees Christopher Bollas apply his creative and innovative psychoanalytic thinking to various contemporary social, cultural and political themes.

This book offers an incisive exploration of powerful trends within, and between, nations in the West over the past two hundred years. The author traces shifts in psychological forces and 'frames of mind', that have resulted in a crucial 'intellectual climate change'. He contends that recent decades have seen rapid and significant transformations in how we define our 'selves', as a new emphasis on instant connectedness has come to replace reflectiveness and introspection.

Bollas argues that this trend has culminated in the current rise of psychophobia; a fear of the mind and a rejection of depth psychologies that has paved the way for what he sees as hate based solutions to world problems, such as the victory of Trump in America and Brexit in the United Kingdom. He maintains that, if we are to counter the threat to democracy posed by these changes and refind a more balanced concept of the self within society, we must put psychological insight at the heart of a new kind of analysis of culture and society.

This remarkable, thought-provoking book will appeal to anyone interested in politics, social policy and cultural studies, and in the gaining of insight into the ongoing challenges faced by the Western democracies and the global community.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
ISBN
9781351018487
Edition
1
Topic
Politique et relations internationales
Subtopic
Politique

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Prologue
  9. 1 The search for meaning
  10. 2 The Great War and the manic moment
  11. 3 The crash
  12. 4 Human character changes
  13. 5 Fractured selves
  14. 6 Normopathy and the compound syndrome
  15. 7 Transmissive selves
  16. 8 New forms of thinking
  17. 9 Resuscitation
  18. 10 Anti-globalization
  19. 11 The democratic mind
  20. 12 “I hear that…”
  21. 13 Paranoia
  22. 14 Ideology
  23. 15 The pieces of the puzzle
  24. References
  25. Index