Subversion and Desire Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book presents the importance of subversion in psychotherapy and revaluates the positive role of desire as an integrating force in the individual and collective psyche. It provides a philosophical frame which expands the scope of contemporary psychotherapy that is curtailed by a reductionist neoliberal zeitgeist. The author also reassesses some inspiringly subversive legacies in psychoanalysis to sketch a psychology wedded to broadminded political engagement. Covering psychotherapy, politics...