Identity Crisis Modernity, Psychoanalysis and the Self |
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| Author:
| Frosh, Stephen |
| ISBN: | 978-1-349-21534-8 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1991 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $29.99 |
Book Description:
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This book examines the psychological responses of people to the excitements and terrors that characterise the modern world. Beginning with a description of modernist and post-modernist accounts of contemporary life, it then moves into detailed discussions of narcissism and psychosis - two states of mind that seem to characterise the 'crises of self' to which the modern world gives rise. With an interweaving of social theory and psychodynamic explanations, this is a...
More DescriptionThis book examines the psychological responses of people to the excitements and terrors that characterise the modern world. Beginning with a description of modernist and post-modernist accounts of contemporary life, it then moves into detailed discussions of narcissism and psychosis - two states of mind that seem to characterise the 'crises of self' to which the modern world gives rise.
With an interweaving of social theory and psychodynamic explanations, this is a sophisticated and compelling text. Identity Crisis will be of interest to students in a wide range of disciplines including psychology, sociology, psychoanalysis, politics and cultural studies.