{"product_id":"psychoanalytic-politics-second-edition-with-a-new-preface-isbn-9780262548175","title":"Psychoanalytic Politics, second edition, with a new preface","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn updated edition of the seminal book that explores why the interest in psychoanalysis in France exploded after 1968 and what it says about culture and therapy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong Western countries, France may well be the one that resisted Freud the longest. But, in the late 1960s, France was seized by an infatuation with Freudianism. By the end of that decade, France had more than a psychoanalytic movement: it had a widespread and deeply rooted psychoanalytic culture. At the heart of this development was Jacques Lacan's reconstruction of Freudian theory, a reinvention of psychoanalysis that resonated with French culture in the aftermath of the uprisings of 1968. In \u003ci\u003ePsychoanalytic Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, the second edition of her groundbreaking work, Sherry Turkle tells the fascinating story of Lacan and why his work so profoundly influenced the French psyche. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile in the United States psychoanalysis is identified with an essentially conservative medical establishment, the French rediscovery of Freud, in a dramatic enactment of Freud’s prophesy, became associated with the most radical elements of French philosophical and political life. In this book, Turkle provides a firsthand account of the psychoanalytic culture that developed in France—as a politicized, Gallicized, and poeticized Freudianism, deeply marked by the work of Jacques Lacan. The clearest introduction in English to Lacan's teaching, \u003ci\u003ePsychoanalytic Politics\u003c\/i\u003e explores how cultures appropriate theories of mind and how ideas come to connect with individuals. The book’s final chapter provides a fascinating portrayal of the last years of Lacan’s life—the intrigue and power struggles that resulted in the break-up of the Freudian School he founded and the events that unfolded in the years following his death in 1981.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition includes a new preface by the author, reflecting on the origins of the book and its relevance for today: a time when the integration of thought and feeling, politics and self-examination is as urgent an endeavor as ever.“The clarity of this book is shocking—as much when it was first written as now. Turkle cuts to the quick of psychoanalysis, showing us the promise of its insights, the local flavor of its theories, and the banality of its scandals. How did we ever imagine there could be a psychoanalysis without politics?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jamieson Webster, psychoanalyst; author of \u003ci\u003eThe Life and Death of Psychoanalysis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Sherry Turkle’s stunning first book \u003ci\u003ePsychoanalytic Politics\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of how a ‘psychoanalytic thirst’ took hold after 1968 in France. How lucky for us that it has been reissued and updated just as psychoanalysis makes a more overt return to consciousness.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Hannah Zeavin, Assistant Professor of the History of Science and New Media, UC Berkeley; author of \u003ci\u003eThe Distance Cure\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Freud, France, Lacan, psychoanalysis, 1968—terms seemingly from another era. But Sherry Turkle not only recreates that scene vividly, she helps us understand how Lacanian concepts and concerns are essential for an understanding of our computational words and our computational world.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Howard Gardner\u003c\/b\u003e,\u003cb\u003e Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education; author of \u003ci\u003eThe Real World of College \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Synthesizing Mind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eSherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT. Her notable books include \u003ci\u003eThe Second Self, Life on the Screen\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAlone Together\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReclaiming Conversation\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Empathy Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304035897573,"sku":"NP9780262548175","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262548175.jpg?v=1767735195","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/psychoanalytic-politics-second-edition-with-a-new-preface-isbn-9780262548175","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}