Inventing our Selves: Psychology, Power and Personhood
Book Details
- Publisher : Cambridge U.P.
- Published : 1999
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 236
- Category :
Culture and Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 16049
- ISBN 13 : 9780521646079
- ISBN 10 : 0521646073
Also by Nikolas Rose
There are currently no reviews
Be the first to review
Inventing Our Selves proposes a radical new approach to the analysis of our current regime of the self, and the values of autonomy, identity, individuality, liberty, and choice that animate it. It argues that psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and other 'psy' disciplines have played a key role in 'inventing our selves', changing the ways in which human beings understand and act upon themselves, and how they are acted upon by politicians, managers, doctors, therapists, and a multitude of other authorities. These mutations are intrinsically linked to recent changes in ways of understanding and exercising political power, which have stressed the values of autonomy, personal responsibility, and choice. This critical history diagnoses and destabilises our contemporary 'condition' of the self, to help us think differently about the kind of persons we are, or might become.
Customer Reviews
Our customers have not yet reviewed this title. Be the first add your own review for this title.
You may also like
Intersubjective Processes and the Unconscious: An Integration of Freudian,...
Lawrence J. Brown
Price £39.99