Psychoanalysis and Politics: Exclusion and the Politics of Representation
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2012
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 288
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Category 2 :
Psychotherapy and Politics - Catalogue No : 31186
- ISBN 13 : 9781780490076
- ISBN 10 : 1780490070
About the Editor(s)
Lene Auestad, PhD, is Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Oslo, and affiliated with the Centre for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities, Oslo. She moved to the UK to pursue long-standing interests in British psychoanalysis. Working at the interface of psychoanalytic thinking and ethics/political theory, her writing has focused on the themes of emotions, prejudice and minority rights. She is the author of Respect, Plurality, and Prejudice: A Psychoanalytical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Dynamics of Social Exclusion and Discrimination, and Psychoanalysis and Politics: Exclusion and the Politics of Representation, as well as a number of articles, including 'To Think or Not To Think', in the Journal of Social and Psychological Sciences, and 'Splitting, Attachment and Instrumental Rationality', in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society.