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Author: Ian Parker (University of Manchester, UK)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.453kg
ISBN: 9780367144326
ISBN 10: 0367144328
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 09 April 2019
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""Professor Ian Parker, a significant intellectual, has much to teach us. This remarkably frank memoir – captivatingly written – will provide a very helpful insight into so many aspects of psychoanalysis – both its attractions and, even, its occasional repulsions."" --Professor Brett Kahr, Senior Fellow at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, London ""Ian Parker’s wide-ranging discussion of psychoanalysis in international contexts is dazzling in approach, tonality, and themes and presents readers with a history of the problems of response and change. Parker gives us a new approach to the psychoanalytic field through his longstanding development and this is a major contribution."" –Professor Deborah Britzman, FRSC, York University, Canada ""From his student years, Ian Parker began searching for alternatives to the shortcomings of mainstream psychology, and this book is the riveting story of how he grappled with the complex diversities of psychoanalytic thought, eventually becoming a Lacanian analyst himself. Parker’s erudite and pellucid prose makes this essential reading for anyone pondering the persisting potential and possible pitfalls of deploying psychoanalytic narratives, especially in political contexts, as he takes us on rollicking journeys through Brazil, Korea, Russia and Japan, while debating with queer theory, Judaism and Islam along the way."" --Professor Lynne Segal, Birkbeck, author, Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy"
Professor Ian Parker, a significant intellectual, has much to teach us. This remarkably frank memoir - captivatingly written - will provide a very helpful insight into so many aspects of psychoanalysis - both its attractions and, even, its occasional repulsions. --Professor Brett Kahr, Senior Fellow at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, London Ian Parker's wide-ranging discussion of psychoanalysis in international contexts is dazzling in approach, tonality, and themes and presents readers with a history of the problems of response and change. Parker gives us a new approach to the psychoanalytic field through his longstanding development and this is a major contribution. -Professor Deborah Britzman, FRSC, York University, Canada From his student years, Ian Parker began searching for alternatives to the shortcomings of mainstream psychology, and this book is the riveting story of how he grappled with the complex diversities of psychoanalytic thought, eventually becoming a Lacanian analyst himself. Parker's erudite and pellucid prose makes this essential reading for anyone pondering the persisting potential and possible pitfalls of deploying psychoanalytic narratives, especially in political contexts, as he takes us on rollicking journeys through Brazil, Korea, Russia and Japan, while debating with queer theory, Judaism and Islam along the way. --Professor Lynne Segal, Birkbeck, author, Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy
Professor Ian Parker, a significant intellectual, has much to teach us. This remarkably frank memoir of his early forays during the 1970s and 1980s - captivatingly written - will provide a very helpful insight into so many aspects of psychoanalysis - both its attractions and, even, its occasional repulsions. --Professor Brett Kahr, Senior Fellow at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology Ian Parker's wide-ranging discussion of psychoanalysis in international contexts is dazzling in approach, tonality, and themes and presents readers with a history of the problems of response and change. Parker gives us a new approach to the psychoanalytic field through his longstanding development and this is a major contribution. -Professor Deborah Britzman, FRSC, York University, Canada
Author Information
Ian Parker is a psychoanalyst in Manchester, UK, Honorary Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, Secretary of Manchester Psychoanalytic Matrix, and President of the College of Psychoanalysts, UK.
