Description
Since its beginning, depth psychology has attempted to change the status quo of individual and cultural life by probing beneath surface appearances. This collection of essays looks at aspects of our culture as psychological events instead of framing them as primarily political or even social concerns.
Lyn Cowan explores a number of subjects, considering what possible meanings and implications for change might lie behind the conventional attitudes toward such subjects as abortion, gender and sexuality, language, memory, and melancholy.
The author puts forward the argument that, although “psychology” and “subversion” are not usually thought of as belonging together, they should be. She argues that a subversive psychology ought not to be confined to the consulting room or limited to clinical diagnoses and treatments. These essays invite the reader to view some of the problematic areas of everyday life from the underside of the psyche. Such a view, presented clearly with humour and insight, offers a way to think differently about usual things, and yield fresh meaning to some of the pressing dilemmas of our time and how we as individuals may respond to them.
