Psychoanalysis and Politics: Exclusion and the Politics of Representation

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This book examines the nature of social exclusion and the aspects of the politics of representation in the social, interpersonal, and political field. It questions how psychoanalysis can be used to think about the invisible and subtle processes of power over symbolic representation. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page CONTENTS ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS INTRODUCTION PART I: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS Editor’s introduction to chapter one CHAPTER ONE: The dread of sameness: social hatred and Freud’s “narcissism of minor differences” Editor’s introduction to chapter two CHAPTER TWO: Subjectivity and absence: prejudice as a psycho-social theme Editor’s introduction to chapter three CHAPTER THREE: Metapsychological approaches to exclusion Editor’s introduction to chapter four CHAPTER FOUR: The excluded in identification PART II: QUESTIONING CASES OF EXCLUSION Editor’s introduction to chapter five CHAPTER FIVE: True believer: racism and one Nazi ideologist Editor’s introduction to chapter six CHAPTER SIX: Staring and phantasy: a speculative attempt to understand and address the widely observed misrepresentation and exclusion of people with disfigurements Editor’s introduction to chapter seven CHAPTER SEVEN: “Who is afraid of DSM?” The place of the subject in the society of therapy Editor’s introduction to chapter eight CHAPTER EIGHT: Islamism and xenophobia Editor’s introduction to chapter nine CHAPTER NINE: Traces of trauma in post-conflict Guatemala: theoretical reflections on the effects of trauma on social organisation PART III: THE EXCLUSION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: LIMITS AND EXTENSIONS Editor’s introduction to chapter ten CHAPTER TEN: Psychoanalysis behind iron curtains Editor’s introduction to chapter eleven CHAPTER ELEVEN: The extensions of psychoanalysis: colonialism, post-colonialism, and hospitality INDEX