Psychoanalysis, Society, and the Inner World: E, Levine Paperback..

Name: Psychoanalysis, Society, and the Inner World: E, Levine Paperback..
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Psychoanalysis, Society, and the Inner WorldEmbedded Meaning in Politics and Social Conflict\nAuthor(s): David P. Levine\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138218222, 978-1138218222\nSynopsis\nPsychoanalysis, Society, and the Inner World explores ideas from psychoanalysis that can be valuable in understanding social processes and institutions and in particular, how psychoanalytic ideas and methods can help us understand the nature and roots of social and political conflict in the contemporary world. \n\nAmong the ideas explored in this book, of special importance are the ideas of a core self (Heinz Kohut and Donald Winnicott) and of an internal object world (Melanie Klein, Ronald Fairbairn). David Levine shows how these ideas, and others related to them, offer a framework for understanding how social processes and institutions establish themselves as part of the individuals inner world, and how imperatives of the .