A Deeper Cut

Further Explorations of the Unconscious in Social and Political Life

Samir Gandesha, Margot Waddell, Stephen Frosh, Liz Greenway, Edgard Sanchez Bernal, David Morgan, Luisa Passalacqua, Marco Puricelli, Tomasz Fortuna, Elizabeth Cotton, John Alderdice, Roger Hartley, Mary-Joan Gerson, Elisabeth Skale, Mark Stein, David Morgan

• Publisher: Phoenix Publishing House
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781912691197
• eBook ISBN: 9781912691203
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Psychoanalysis
• Index: Psychology

Building on the bestselling The Unconscious in Social and Political Life, the first book in the Political Minds series, A Deeper Cut investigates such vital issues as left and right populisms, colonialism and racism, social care for the mentally ill, manipulation of the masses in the third world, Alice Miller on family politics, diversity, Orwellian thinking, trade unions, religious fundamentalism, NHS politics, activism, and tyranny. Featuring compelling contributions from Lord John Alderdice, Elizabeth Cotton, Tomasz Fortuna, Stephen Frosh, Samir Gandesha, Mary Joan Gerson, Liz Greenway, Roger Hartley, Luisa Passalacqua, Kate Pugh, Marco Puricelli, Edgard Sanchez Bernal, Elisabeth Skale, Mark Stein, and Margot Waddell. Galvanised by events outside of his consulting room, David Morgan began The Political Mind seminars at the British Psychoanalytical Society in 2015 and their successful run continues today. A series of superlative seminars that examine the effects of the current upheaval going on worldwide, this book is the second to bring these seminars from leading thinkers to a wider audience.

Leading politicians, writers, educators, psychoanalysts, psychologists, philosophers, psychotherapists, and psychologists are gathered together in this fascinating volume that investigates social upheaval on the worldwide stage. Stimulating and thought-provoking, this is a must-read for every citizen asking just what is happening in the world today.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title
• The Political Mind Series
• Full Title
• Copyright
• Tell Them
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Permissions
• About the editor and contributors
• Introduction
• Chapter One - Understanding right and left populisms
• Chapter Two - “Ill fares the land”: reflections on The Merchant of Venice—a tale for modern times
• Chapter Three - Psychoanalysis, colonialism, racism
• Chapter Four - Consultancy on deregistration to a care home for the long-stay mentally ill: you can take Stig out of the dump, but can you take the dump out of Stig?
• Chapter Five - Power and the manipulation of the masses: Third World perspectives
• Chapter Six - Whistle-blowers—moral good or self-interest? The psychological dimensions of defying a perverse or corrupt authority
• Chapter Seven - Alice Miller on family, power, and truth
• Chapter Eight - Diversity: notes from the inside and from the outside
• Chapter Nine - George Orwell: politics and the avoidance of reality
• Chapter Ten - In the union: the psychodynamics of solidarity
• Chapter Eleven - On the psychology of religious fundamentalism
• Chapter Twelve - The politics of NHS psychiatry
• Chapter Thirteen - Psychoanalytic activism: historical perspective and subjective conundrums
• Chapter Fourteen - The rise of the new right: psychoanalytic perspectives
• Chapter Fifteen - Lord of the flies: a psychoanalytic view of the gang and its processes
• Index