Media and the Inner World

This book applies insights from the spheres of academic scholarship and clinical experience to demonstrate the usefulness of psychoanalysis for developing nuanced and innovative approaches to media and cultural analysis.

Autorentext
Karen Ainsbury, Psychotherapist, UK Aaron Balick, Psychotherapist, UK Nicola Diamond, University of East London, UK Judith Edwards, Tavistock Clinic, UK Matt Hills, Aberystwyth University, UK Hugh Ortega Breton, University of Leicester, UK Barry Richards, Bournemouth University, UK Jay Watts, Psychotherapist, UK Jo Whitehouse-Hart, De Montfort University Leicester, UK

Inhalt
Introduction: Psycho-cultural Approaches to Emotion, Media and Popular Culture; Caroline Bainbridge and Candida Yates PART I: PSYCHO-CULTURAL APPROACHES TO SPORT 1. 'Abide With Me': Mediatised Football And Collectivised Mourning; Barry Richards 2. Political Sport and The Sport of Politics: A Psycho-cultural Study of Play, the Antics of Boris Johnson and The London 2012 Olympic Games; Candida Yates PART II: THE EMOTIONAL WORK OF CINEMA 3. 'Cinematic Screaming' or 'All About My Mother': Lars von Trier's Cinematic Extremism as Therapeutic Encounter; Caroline Bainbridge 4. Film Projection and Projective Identification: Film as a Teaching Tool; Judith Edwards 5. The Body, Emotion and Cinema: Perspectives on Cinematic Experiences of das Unheimlich and Estranged Body States in The Others (Alejandro Amenàbar, 2001); Nicola Diamond PART III: TELEVISION AND PARANOIA 6. Reflections on Television and Paranoia; Karen Ainsbury 7. Coping with a Crisis of Meaning: Televised Paranoia; Hugh Ortega Breton 8. 'Programmes For People Who Are Paranoid About The Way They Look': Thoughts On Paranoia, Recognition, Mirrors and Makeover Television; Jo Whitehouse-Hart PART IV: SOCIAL MEDIA AND DIGITAL NARCISSISM 9. The Ultimate Private/Public Partnership: The Extensions of the Self in the World of the Virtual Gaze; Aaron Balick 10. Digital Narcissism in the Consulting Room; Jay Watts 11. Playing and Pathology: Considering Social Media as 'Secondary Transitional Objects'; Matt Hills ?