Beneath the crust of culture : psychoanalytic anthropology and the cultural unconscious in American life /

In this book, the author presents a pioneering interpretation of culture as constituting a dynamic relationship between the visible "crust" and the elusive "core" of social life. He meticulously maps the role of the unconscious in shaping much of American life in the late 20th an...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stein, Howard F.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2004.
Series:Contemporary psychoanalytic studies ; 1.
Subjects:
Since 1970
Ethnopsychology > United States.
Ethnology.
Psychoanalysis.
Social psychology.
Subconsciousness.
Anthropology, Cultural
Ethnopsychology
Psychoanalytic Theory
Psychology, Social
Unconscious, Psychology
Violence > psychology
Ethnopsychologie > États-Unis.
Ethnologie.
Psychanalyse.
Psychologie sociale.
Inconscient.
psychoanalysis.
social psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Ethnopsychology.
Civilization > Psychological aspects.
Ethnopsychology.
United States > Civilization > 1970- > Psychological aspects.
United States
États-Unis > Civilisation > 1970- > Aspect psychologique.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • FOREWORD by Jon Mills
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ONE: Days of Awe: September 11, 2001 and Its Cultural Psychodynamics
  • TWO: Disposable Youth: The 1999 Columbine High School Massacre as American Metaphor
  • THREE: The Execution of Timothy McVeigh: Cultural Mystification and Deeper Clues
  • FOUR: Hypernationalism and Xenophobia in Workplace and Nation State
  • FIVE: The Left Out and the Forgotten: An Approach to Understanding Disasters
  • SIX: Mourning and Society: Situating Loss and Grief in the History and Philosophy of Science
  • EPILOGUE
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX.

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