This book will interest anyone seeking a comprehensive understanding of the psychological relationship between individual psychological dynamics, social structure and the unconscious collective paradigms. It focuses on an analysis of patriarchal culture, which is, as it were, the psychological enclosure in which all individual and collective processes take place.
Starting from the genesis and current structure of this culture, the strong social changes of the last 50 years are examined:
- the change in relations between men and women
- social relations in terms of solidarity and desolidarisation
- the situation of social security
- the social and political power relations, and
- the economic dynamics.
At the same time, collective fantasies are elaborated that emerge from the socio-structural changes. The basis of the study is psychoanalytical cultural theory in the form of a cultural-critical deconstruction of its fundamental assumptions. In 16 interesting chapters, essential questions of psychological cultural theory are answered and practical applications of this theory to current sociostructural processes are shown.
Author(s): Dieter Sandner
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 180
City: Berlin
Contents
1 Introduction: Society and the Unconscious
z A. Cultural Psychological Basics
z B. Cultural Psychological Analysis of Today’s Society
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I A Cultural Psychoanalytical Fundamentals
2 The Significance of Freud’s Cultural Theory for the Theory and Practice of Psychoanalysis
2.1 Freud’s Theory of Culture
2.2 Freud’s Cultural Theory and the Classical Psychoanalytic Situation
2.3 The Design of Relationships among Psychoanalysts
2.4 Another Psychoanalytical Cultural Theory by Herbert Marcuse
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3 The Psychological Housing of Our Culture
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4 Psychoanalytic Considerations of the Primal Trauma of Our Culture
4.1 Outlook
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5 Cultural Psychoanalytic Considerations of Freud’s Sexual Theory
5.1 The Origin of Freud’s Sexual Psychology
5.2 Freud’s Cultural Psychology as Sexual Psychology
5.3 Freud’s Developmental Psychology as a Sexual-Psychological Expression of his Cultural Psychology
5.4 Cultural-psychological Outlook
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6 Sigmund Freud’s Contributions to the Psychology of Love Life
6.1 On a Certain Type of Object Choice by Men (1910)
6.2 On the General Humiliation of Love Life (1912)
6.3 The Taboo of Virginity (1917)
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7 Cultural Psychoanalytic Considerations of the Libido Theory
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8 The Founding of a Critical Psychoanalytic Cultural Psychology by Trigant Burrow in 1924
z Notes
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9 The Psychological Foundations of the Collective Unconscious
9.1 S. Freud: Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse
9.2 T. Burrow: Psychoanalysis in Groups
9.3 C. G. Jung: The Collective Unconscious
9.4 W. Schindler’s Cultural Psychology: Mother Projections on Society, Father Projections on the State
9.5 W. R. Bion: Unconscious Basic Assumptions in Groups
9.6 Collective-Psychological Associations in Large Groups
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II B Cultural Psychoanalytic Analyses of Contemporary Society
10 100 Years of Totem and Taboo—Psychoanalytic Cultural Theory Today
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11 The Uncertain in Gender Relations
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12 Why Love Hurts—Toward a Cultural Psychology of Gender Relations Today
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13 The Discomfort in Society or: The Shift of the Socio-structural Boundaries
13.1 Changes in Social Conditions
13.2 Changed Social and Psychological Situation of the People
13.3 Changed Interpersonal Dynamics and Depressive Disorders
13.4 Changed Interpersonal Dynamics and Borderline Personality Disorders
13.5 Changed Psychic Situation of the Parents
13.6 Outlook
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14 Socio-structural Foundations of the Collective Unconscious in Our Society
14.1 The Economization of Society in the Field of Production
14.2 The Change of the Reproduction Conditions
14.2.1 The Economized Reproduction Model
14.2.2 The Couple-Centered Reproduction Model
14.2.3 The Precarious Reproductive Model
14.2.4 The Subsistence-Oriented Reproductive Model
14.3 The Provision of People in Need of Care and in Old Age
14.4 The Social Security in Case of Unemployment, Illness and in Old Age
14.5 Hypotheses on the Collective Unconscious Based on Socio-Structural Changes
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15 Cultural Psychoanalytic Considerations of the Financial Crisis of 2008
15.1 Freud’s Cultural Psychoanalytical Model
15.2 The Application of Freud’s Cultural Model to American Financial Capitalism
15.3 Further Developments of the Financial Capitalist Dynamics Since 2012
15.4 The Patriarchal Society Model—a Brothel Economy?
15.5 Outlook From a Cultural Psychological Perspective
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16 The Risk Society—Strengthening of the Ego, Overburdening of the Self?
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17 The Reproduction of Social Power Relations in the Theory and Technique of Group Analysis
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