Toward a Social Psychoanalysis: Culture, Character, and Normative Unconscious Processes

Author(s) : Lynne Layton, Editor : Marianna Leavy-Sperounis

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Toward a Social Psychoanalysis: Culture, Character, and Normative Unconscious Processes

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : March 2020
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 344
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 94970
  • ISBN 13 : 9780367902049
  • ISBN 10 : 0367902044
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For over thirty years, Lynne Layton has heeded the call for a social psychoanalysis 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.

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