Description
Psychoanalysis, Science and Power reexamines the current state of psychoanalysis and science and technology studies as they have been influenced by Robert Maxwell Young’s work.
Robert Maxwell Young, a Texas émigré to Britain, was a scholar, publisher, TV documentarian, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, journal editor, conference organizer and political activist. Young urged that psychoanalysis, particularly in its Kleinian incarnation, illuminated new aspects of science and technology studies, and vice versa. This volume not only provides an overview of Young’s life and interests by a stellar cast of scholars and practitioners but also commemorates the many and intersecting streams of his contributions, reasoning for their continuing relevance in the contemporary studies of psychoanalysis, biological sciences, technology and Darwinian thought.
Presenting perspectives that are rigorously analytical and yet often poignant, Psychoanalysis, Science and Power will be an important read for students, analysts and analytic therapists of all orientations who are interested in broadening their understanding of their practice.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Kurt Jacobsen and R. D. Hinshelwood
Part 1: Darwin and Malthus: The Cambridge Years
1. Roger Smith, "Relations: History of science and the thought of the therapist"
2. Jim A. Secord, "Revolutions in the head: Darwin, Malthus and Robert M. Young"
3. Timothy Sim, "The Reception of Robert M. Young's Mind, Brain and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century"
4. Michael Ruse, "Robert M. Young's Darwinian aftermath"
Part 2: Politics of History and Technology
5. Kurt Jacobsen, "Paradigm at bay: Robert M. Young and the dialectical development of dcience and technology studies"
6. Maureen McNeil, "Science is social relation: Reflections on the essay and the intervention"
7. Les Levidow, "'Let's move on': Bob Young’s contribution to radical science concepts and practices"
Part 3: Psychoanalysis
8. Barry Richards, "Bob Young and the Free Associations project: A personal recollection"
9. Ann Scott, "Bob Young at Free Associations Books"
10. Karl Figlio, "Money as the currency of value"
11. Peter Barham, "Schizophrenia in history: Outsiders, innovators and race"
12. R. D. Hinshelwood, "Values: Inner and outer"
13. Paul Hoggett, "Primitive space"
14. Valerie Sinason, "Robert M. Young: A farewell"
Conclusion: Bob Young and Regenerating his Project
Kurt Jacobsen and R. D. Hinshelwood
Appendix: An interview with Bob Young
