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The Designed Self: Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Identities by Carlo Strenger

Description: The Designed Self by Carlo Strenger Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description In exploring the interrelationships among recent cultural changes and the process of identity formation in GenXers, Strenger takes up a task central to analytic theorists of earlier generations but much neglected in recent years: The shaping impact of cultural experience on psychological development. Publisher Description What can contemporary psychoanalysis bring to the understanding of Generation X, a cohort for whom the trivialization of a dizzying array of possible experiences teamed with the pressure to lead spectacular lives often leads to diffuse feelings of confusion, depression, and disorientation? In The Designed Self: Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Identities, Carlo Strenger explores the psychology of young adults for whom the weight of cultural, familial, and religious traditions has seemingly vanished. These young people have grown up in a cultural universe defined largely by their contemporaries, and their maturational path is charted less by conflicts with authority than by the imperative to "design thy self." The Designed Self chronicles Strengers therapeutic encounters with five extraordinarily gifted young adults for whom the ideal of authenticity long associated with the Baby-Boom generation was supplanted by the need to experiment endlessly with the self. Perpetual self-experimentation, constantly reinforced by the media, came to encompass everything from career choice, to hair color, to body shape, to gender identity.In compelling clinical stories, Strenger introduces us to patients for whom the absence of any sense of cultural continuity with their parents generation was exemplified by embrace of a "Nobrow culture" that rejected the very distinction between "genuine" and popular culture. And we meet patients for whom the project of shaping the self had become a cultural imperative no less than an expression of individuality. In all five cases, Strenger acquired therapeutic leverage by attending to the dark side of his GenXers sense of self-creating empowerment. Analytic inquiry led to the fatherlessness that accompanied the absence of clearly felt authority; to the terror of aging that coexisted with postadolescent norms of sexual attractiveness; to the sense of financial failure plaguing those who fell short of the well-publicized success stories of their cultural icons; and to the dilemma signaled by the competing pulls of ethnic identity and the desire to be part of the global village.In exploring the interrelationships among recent cultural changes and the process of identity formation in GenXers, Strenger takes up a task central to analytic theorists of earlier generations but much neglected in recent years: The shaping impact of cultural experience on psychological development. His case presentations achieve added power and poignancy owing to his own cultural milieu: Israeli urban society, where cultural and ethnic tensions have long had heightened impact on young adults. At once insightful and cautionary, The Designed Self investigates how psychoanalysis must change if it is to claim cultural relevance and therapeutic effectiveness in The Age of the Designed Self. Author Biography Strenger, Carlo Details ISBN 0881634190 ISBN-13 9780881634198 Title The Designed Self Author Carlo Strenger Format Hardcover Year 2004 Pages 222 Edition 1st Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd GE_Item_ID:9715763; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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ISBN-13: 9780881634198

Book Title: The Designed Self

Number of Pages: 222 Pages

Publication Name: Designed Self : Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Identities

Language: English

Publisher: Routledge

Item Height: 0.8 in

Subject: Movements / Psychoanalysis, Developmental / LifeSpan Development, General, Mental Health, Developmental / General

Publication Year: 2004

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 16.8 Oz

Author: Carlo Strenger

Subject Area: Psychology

Item Length: 9.3 in

Item Width: 6.3 in

Series: Relational Perspectives Book Ser.

Format: Hardcover

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