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Psychoanalysis and governance

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  • ClassificationDdc: 150.19/5
  • ClassificationLcc: BF173

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"Psychoanalysis and Governance makes a cogent argument for the use of psychoanalytic perspectives in the understanding of governance, the process of collective decision-making which maintains and reshapes communities. This book is highly relevant to those interested in the ever- expanding field of applications of psychoanalysis and for all those willing to observe the discursive and affective underpinnings of public policy, administration and planning. It locates the potential for self-analysis and self-transformation within governance, yet also indicates governance as the confluence of diverging understandings of the ideas of community and governance itself, as the place where competing desires and variegated patterns of fears and hopes collide and hold the transformational potential to destabilize the community. Building on Freudian, Lacanian, and other psychoanalytic traditions, the book enriches our understanding of governance, the way communities remember and forget, are haunted by the past, remain untransparent to themselves yet also retain the possibility of reinvention, of imagining alternative selves, new futures, and discover paths to move in that direction. This book will be a suitable for psychoanalysts, planners, and all those interested in informed governance"-- Provided by publisher.

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Assche, Kristof Van. Psychoanalysis and governance

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  • Date: 2026-07-07T22:44:02.503235+00:00
  • Agent: bcld
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 23986002

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  • Date: 2026-07-07
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  • Description level: bibframe-2-6-0
  • Description language: eng
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