Description
| Product ID: | 9780367627362 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Research in Psychology |
| Title: | Post-Capitalist Subjectivity in Literature and Anti-Psychiatry |
| Subtitle: | Reconceptualizing the Self Beyond Capitalism |
| Authors: | Author: Hans A. Skott-Myhre |
| Page Count: | 186 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: general, Literary studies: general, Philosophy of mind, Cultural studies, Sociology, Psychology, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Philosophy of mind, Cultural studies, Sociology, Psychology, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Social, group or collective psychology |
| Description: | Through the examination of anti-psychiatric theory and literary texts, this timely and thought-provoking volume explores the possibilities of liberating our habitual patterns of perception and consciousness beyond the confines of a capitalist era. Through the examination of anti-psychiatric theory and literary texts, this timely and thought-provoking volume explores the possibilities of liberating our habitual patterns of perception and consciousness beyond the confines of a capitalist era. In Post-Capitalist Subjectivity in Literature and Anti-Psychiatry, Skott-Myhre asks the question, how might we be different if we didn’t live in a capitalist society? By drawing on Marxist and post-Marxist theory, and conducting nuanced analysis of the professional writings of anti-psychiatrists including Basaglia and Laing, and the work of fiction writers Kafka and García Márquez, the text identifies alternative conceptualizations of the self. Focusing in particular on portrayals of institutions and the family, Skott-Myhre proposes that these social systems offer new modes of reading the world and ourselves which will transform social organization and free subjectivity from dominant capitalist structures. This transdisciplinary text responds to a revitalized interest in alternatives to traditional psychology, an interest in life beyond capitalism, and the crisis in the traditional family. Post-Capitalist Subjectivity in Literature and Anti-Psychiatry will offer timely reading for graduate students, researchers, and scholars in the fields of cultural studies, psychology, philosophy, family studies, and interdisciplinary studies. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-08-01 |
