Psycho-Politics And Cultural Desires

A cultural studies textbook that deals with issues of methodology, as well as mapping out the history and theories and ideas in cultural studies. The book examines the work of Raymond Williams, Lacan and Hoggart, among Others, And Explores Notions Of Subculture, Psychoanalysis, Marxist thought, narrative, autobiography, fiction, subjectivity, language, history and representation. The book focuses on the past, present and future of cultural studies, with the aim of providing readers with a clear overview of the central ideas within the area, developing current debates and possible future avenues.

Introduction, Jan Campbell and Janet Harbord. Part 1 Politics and psychoanalysis: beyond Marxism and psychoanalysis, Gary Hall; gay men and female identification - pathology or cultural dissent? Stephen Maddison. Part 2 Between psychic processes and culture: politics and psychotherapy, Andrew Samuels; for Esme with love and squalor, Jan Campbell. Part 3 Race, ethnicity and fantasy: psychopolitics - Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks, Vicky Lebeau; in memory of absent fathers - black paternity and social spectatorship, David Marriott. Part 4 History and postmodernism: out of the past - psychoanalysis, trauma and the limits to recollection, Tina Papoulias; the poetics of opacity - readability and literary form, Peter Nicholls. Part 5 Corporeality: identification's edge - dreams, bodies and the butcher's wife, Janet Harbord; writing the adolescent body, Jo Croft. Part 6 Auto/biography: backward glances - Father when he passed on, left dust, Jonathon Rutherford; creative writing and problems of identity - a horneyan perspective, Celia Hunt.