Culture and the Unconscious

This collection sheds light on how cultural questions can be addressed through a dialogue between psychoanalytic clinical and academic traditions. With accessible introductions to its central themes, the book opens up conversations between the spheres of art, academia and psychoanalysis, revealing points of commonality and divergence.

• cinema
• creativity
• Cultural Studies
• culture
• ethics
• father
• film
• Framing
• social theory
• Tradition

• Division of Edu, Arts & Social Sci, University of South Australia, Windsor, Australia

  Susannah Radstone

DAVID BELL is Consultant Medical Psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic, London, UK and a Psychoanalyst RON BRITTON is President of The British Psychoanalytical Society, UK and the Vice-President of the International Psychoanalytical Association PHIL COHEN is Director of the London East Research Institute (UEL), UK SAM DURRANT is a Lecturer in English, Leeds University, UK KARL FIGLIO is Director and Professor, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK VERONIKA FUECHTNER is Assistant Professor of German at Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA SUSIE GODSIL is Consultant Adult Psychotherapist, NHS Specialist Psychotherapy Service, UK SUZY GORDON is Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader, Film Studies, School of Cultural Studies, University of the West of England, UK BEN HIGHMORE is Reader in Cultural Studies, University of the West of England, UK DEBBIE HINDLE is Organizing Tutor for the Clinical Training in Child Psychotherapy, Scottish Institute of Human Relations, Edinburgh and Lead Clinician in Child Psychotherapy, Yorkhill NHS Trust, UK MARILYN LAWRENCE is a Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, UK MICA NAVA is Professor of Cultural Studies, University of East London, UK GEOFFREY PEARSON is Professor of Criminology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK MARGUERITE REID is Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, UK JANET SAYERS is Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK

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