Psychoanalysis, Culture and Contemporary Discontents

Ricardo Rubinstein explores contemporary culture and its discontents - including subjectivity, fanaticism, panic attacks, technology, and pandemics - through a psychoanalytic lens.

Auteur

Ricardo Alejandro Rubinstein is a doctor, psychiatrist, training psychoanalyst of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association, and full member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He has also been a Professor at the Center of Psychoanalytical Teaching. He is the author of Sports on the Couch (Routledge, 2017), which is also available in Spanish and Romanian.

Contenu

Introduction 1. Panic Attack 2. Danger erotization, adventure and addiction to adrenaline 3. Fanaticism 4. New technologies, subjectivity and addictive tendencies 5. Pandemics 6. Conclusion