Psychoanalysis, Science and Power: Essays in Honour of Robert Maxwell Young

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Psychoanalysis, Science and Power reexamines the current state of psychoanalysis and science and technology studies as they have been influenced by Robert Maxwell Young’s work. Robert Maxwell Young, a Texas émigré to Britain, was a scholar, publisher, TV documentarian, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, journal editor, conference organizer and political activist. Young urged that psychoanalysis, particularly in its Kleinian incarnation, illuminated new aspects of science and technology studies, and vice versa. This volume not only provides an overview of Young’s life and interests by a stellar cast of scholars and practitioners but also commemorates the many and intersecting streams of his contributions, reasoning for their continuing relevance in the contemporary studies of psychoanalysis, biological sciences, technology and Darwinian thought. Presenting perspectives that are rigorously analytical and yet often poignant, Psychoanalysis, Science and Power will be an important read for students, analysts and analytic therapists of all orientations who are interested in broadening their understanding of their practice. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Editors List of contributors Introduction PART 1: Darwin and Malthus: the Cambridge years 1 Relations: history of science and the thought of the therapist 2 Revolutions in the head: Darwin, Malthus and Robert M. Young 3 The reception of Robert M. Young’s Mind, Brain, and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century 4 Robert M. Young’s Darwinian aftermath PART 2: Politics of History and Technology 5 Paradigm at bay: Robert M. Young and the dialectical development of science and technology studies 6 “Science is social relations”: reflections on the essay and the intervention 7 “Let’s move on”: Bob Young’s contribution to radical science concepts and practices PART 3: Psychoanalysis 8 Bob Young and the Free Associations project: a personal recollection 9 Bob Young at Free Association Books 10 Money as the currency of value 11 Schizophrenia in history: outsiders, innovators and race 12 Values: inner and outer 13 Primitive space 14 Robert M. Young: a farewell Conclusion: Bob Young and Regenerating his Project Appendix: an interview with Bob Young Index