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Politics on the Couch: Citizenship and the Internal Life
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Samuels as mentioned in this paper provides an accessible, lucid and stimulating account of the hidden psychology of politics and the hidden politics of the psyche and offers trenchant and timely critiques of the crisis in contemporary politics.Abstract:
This is an accessible, lucid and stimulating account of the hidden psychology of politics and the hidden politics of the psyche. It is packed with original and imaginative ideas on economics, nationalism, “good-enough” leadership, the citizen and the state, women and men, fatherhood, and the citizen as a “therapist of the world”. Samuels offers trenchant and timely critiques of the crisis in contemporary politics. The book will be important for politicians, people in management studies and the media, members of the therapy world, and all political activists. © 2001 Andrew Samuels. All rights reserved.read more
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TL;DR: The body politics of Julia Kristeva and the Body Politics of JuliaKristeva as discussed by the authors are discussed in detail in Section 5.1.1 and Section 6.2.1.
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Constructing the Self, Constructing America: A Cultural History of Psychotherapy
TL;DR: The author, a historian and practicing psychologist, lays out his major themes and biases in his first two chapters, which can be summarized by the following passages: "over the last 150 years, American history has become a history of the modern ills of isolation, uncertainty and doubt".
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Mediated persona and political culture: Dimensions of structure and process
TL;DR: The authors provides a schematic exploration of some of the primary factors at work in the fashioning of political persona, examining the broader implications of shifts in the styling of political personhood, and suggests the value of further historical and case-study work, opening up the neglected cultural and affective dimension of the formal political process.
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War on the Couch The Emotionology of the New International Security Paradigm
TL;DR: The authors argued that international therapeutic governance pathologizes war-affected populations as emotionally dysfunctional and problematizes their right to self-government, leading to extensive external intervention, which may be detrimental to postwar recovery as well legitimizing a denial of selfgovernment.
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
TL;DR: The body politics of Julia Kristeva and the Body Politics of JuliaKristeva as mentioned in this paper are discussed in detail in Section 5.1.1 and Section 6.2.1.
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Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the history of sexual politics and sexual meaning in the English language, focusing on the early 20th century and its relationship with homosocial desire.