Youth Mental Health Crises and the Broken Social Link: A Freudian-Lacanian Perspective

Author(s) : Carl Waitz

Youth Mental Health Crises and the Broken Social Link: A Freudian-Lacanian Perspective

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2024
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 214
  • Category :
    Child and Adolescent Studies
  • Catalogue No : 97781
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032666310
  • ISBN 10 : 1032666315

Table of Contents


Part I: Antecedents
1. Rites of Passage and Suicide: The Youth Mental Health Crisis, Van Gennep, and Durkheim
2. An Oedipal Odyssey: Freud’s Iterations of the Father
3. Lacanian Glosses on Freudian Bosses: Further Thoughts on the Father

Part II: The Disease of the Infinite
4. For the Love of God Almighty: A Brief History of the Social Link and Civil Religion in the US
5. The Impact of Consumer Capitalism on the Social Link
6. A Broken Image: Technological Advancement and Youth Mental Health

Part III: Le Mal de la Jeunesse
7. The Murder of Agamemnon
8. Stigma and Stigmata
9. The Loss of Not Knowing

Part IV: Psychoanalysis in Society
10. Crooked Cures
11. Elements of an Ethical Response
12. Fantasia

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