Subversion and Desire: Pathways to Transindividuation - Rilegato

Bazzano, Manu

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1032248238 ISBN 13: 9781032248233

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2023

Riassunto

This book presents the importance of subversion in psychotherapy and revaluates the positive role of desire as an integrating force in the individual and collective psyche.

The text provides a solid philosophical frame which helps to expand the scope of contemporary psychotherapy at a time when it is being curtailed by a reductionist neoliberal zeitgeist. The latter emphasizes cognition over motivation, behaviour over emotion, consciousness over the unconscious, the self over the organism, and tends to reframe psychotherapeutic practice as a reprogramming of individuals. In response, this book outlines concerted acts of "soft subversion" which can undermine the status quo and open new possibilities of individual and collective transformation. The author also retraces and reassesses some of the more inspiringly subversive legacies in psychoanalysis, with a view to sketching a life-affirming psychology wedded to broadminded political engagement.

Covering psychotherapy, politics, art and literature, and social and cultural theory, this book will appeal to anyone interested in understanding how psychotherapy and philosophy can be more radical and subversive endeavours.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Manu Bazzano, PhD, is a writer, psychotherapist/supervisor, and visiting lecturer at various colleges and universities around the world. His work is informed by his lifelong practice of Zen and more recently Butoh, and by his love of art and literature. Website: www.manubazzano.com

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1032248238
• ISBN 13: 9781032248233
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 294
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania