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Psychoanalysis can serve revolutionary change
ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends, with reservations, a book which offers a compelling argument that new behaviours will require new ways of thinking about ourselves
Could the quest for “subjective transformation” be equally well-served by reading the philosophical novels of Robert Musil (left) and Franz Kafka?
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Psychoanalysis and Revolution
by Ian Parker & David Pavon-Cuellar
1968 Press £9.99
POPULAR notions of the purpose and practice of psychoanalysis were established in the golden age of Hollywood. In Spellbound (1945), Dr Constance Petersen, played by Ingrid Bergman, uses psychoanalytic techniques to resolve inner turmoil and enable a dysfunctional individual to come to terms with social reality.
Ian Parker and David Pavon-Cuellar reject the notion of psychoanalysis as a means of inward reflection. Instead, they reclaim it as a process of collective struggle, setting it in opposition to the cycle of accumulation and profit in which society is trapped.
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