{"product_id":"the-designed-self-9781138009882","title":"The Designed Self","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat can contemporary psychoanalysis bring to the understanding of Generation X, a cohort for whom the trivialization of a dizzying array of possible experiences teamed with the pressure to lead spectacular lives often leads to diffuse feelings of confusion, depression, and disorientation.  \u003ci\u003eThe Designed Self\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles Strenger''s therapeutic encounters with five extraordinarily gifted young adults for whom the ideal of authenticity long associated with the Baby-Boom generation was supplanted by the need to experiment endlessly with the self.  Perpetual self-experimentation, constantly reinforced by the media, came to encompass everything from career choice, to hair color, to body shape, to gender identity.  In compelling clinical stories, Strenger introduces us to patients for whom the project of shaping the self had become a cultural imperative no less than an expression of individuality.  At once insightful and cautionary, \u003ci\u003eThe Designed Self\u003c\/i\u003e investig\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"In his book,\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Designed Self: Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Identities\u003c\/i\u003e, Dr. Carol Strenger, a philosopher, psychologist, and analyst, presents us with his vision of psychoanalysis from his work in an Israeli urban society with the segment of the population known as Generation X. His case presentations illustrate the divide between the generations and their cultures....this is a well written and enjoyable work to be recommended to all who work with patients, especially, those who work with young adults.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"There are many excellent features in this book. Strenger is clearly comfortable with philosophical traditions from Nietzsche to Derrida, Rorty to Sloterdijk. He is authoritative in his handling of a variety of psychoanalytic practices from Freud through Lacan to the intersubjective and relational approaches.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Psychoanalysis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Carlo Strenger has written an engaging and truly original book that offers some provocative ideas about reconstructing psychoanalysis in the context of a fast-changing world. Strenger argues persuasively that the culture of 'Generation X' is very different from that in which psychoanalysis evolved, or even that with which the middle-aged analyst of today is familiar. With compelling clinical examples and wide-ranging scholarship and erudition, Strenger puts forth a vision of a psychoanalysis that innovates, like the new generation itself, without giving up its connection to its own tradition. This book is essential reading for all therapists who want to stay current with the lives of their patients.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Neil Altman, Ph.D., Editor, \u003cem\u003ePsychoanalytic Dialogues\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“With intellectual and stylistic grace, Carlo Strenger weaves a seamless web of good story and compelling thought. Open to the changing cosmos he and his patients inhabit, he speaks with equal ease of clinical process, psychotherapeutic technique, and theories philosophical, social, and psychoanalytic. Continuing in the cosmopolitan tradition of \u003cem\u003eCivilization and Its Discontents\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Designed Self\u003c\/em\u003e shows us the dialectical process by which psychoanalysis illuminates and changes the very world it belongs to and is thereby changed itself.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Muriel Dimen, Ph.D., Author, \u003cem\u003eSexuality, Intimacy, Power \u003c\/em\u003e(Analytic Press, 2003)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Strenger challenges psychoanalysis and culture, daring us to live in new ways yet not to leave ourselves behind. \u003cem\u003eThe Designed Self\u003c\/em\u003e is not only an edifying read but a thoroughly enjoyable one.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Michael Eigen, Ph.D., Editor, \u003cem\u003eThe Psychoanalytic Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrologue: The Designed Self in the Global Village. The Self as Perpetual Experiment. Nobrow: Forming an Identity in an Urban Culture. The Bobo Dilemma. Failing Fathers, Failing Sons. Finding Ethnic Identity and a Place in Western Society. Psychoanalysis in the Age of the Designed Self. Epilogue: Requiem to the Dream of Metaphysical Depth.","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019447861591,"sku":"9781138009882","price":49.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138009882.jpg?v=1750780301","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-designed-self-9781138009882","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}