Toward a Social Psychoanalysis Culture, Character, and Normative Unconscious Processes
Synopsis
Frantz Fanon, Erich Fromm, Pierre Bourdieu, and Marie Langer are among those activists, clinicians, and academics who have called for a social psychoanalysis. For over thirty years, Lynne Layton has heeded this call and produced a body of work that examines unconscious process as it operates both in the social world and in the clinic.In this volume of Layton’s most important papers, she expands on earlier theorists’ ideas of social character by exploring how dominant ideologies and culturally mandated, hierarchical identity prescriptions are lived in individual and relational conflict. Through clinical and cultural examples, Layton describes how enactments of what she calls ‘normative unconscious processes’ reinforce cultural inequalities of race, sex, gender, and class both inside and outside the clinic, and at individual, interpersonal, and institutional levels.
Clinicians, academics, and activists alike will find here a deeper understanding of the power of unconscious process, and are called on to envision and enact a progressive future in which vulnerability and interdependency are honored and systemic inequalities dismantled.
Book details
- Series:
- Relational Perspectives Book Series
- Author:
- Lynne Layton
- ISBN:
- 9781000037432
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781003023098, 9780367902049, 9780367902056
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Pages:
- 308
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- No
- Date of addition:
- 2023-09-13
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Copyright by:
- Lynne Layton, The right of Lynne Layton to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Psychology