Joy and the Objects of Psychoanalysis

Joy and the Objects of PsychoanalysisShows how literature can aid psychoanalysts in the understanding of psychological conflicts. For more than a hundred years, psychoanalysts have applied their theories of neurosis to objects of culture, including literature. In this book, psychoanalyst, anthropologist, and scholar of religion Volney P. Gay reverses field and uses literature to reevaluate psychoanalysis. Arguing that neurosis occurs when we cannot recollect joy, Gay focuses upon the

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While primarily addressed to students and scholars in the fields of racial and ethnic geography

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An interdisciplinary anthology exploring issues related to diversity

Develops a theory of culture based on a metaphysics that elaborates on the Platonic and Confucian traditions

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The book concludes with a theoretical interpretation of the concept of hegemony

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