Routledge Handbook of Pyschoanalytical Political Theory

Yannis Stavrakakis

"The emerging field of 'psychoanalytic political theory' has now reached a stage in its development and rapid evolution that deserves to be registered, systematically defined and critically evaluated. This Handbook provides the first reference volume which showcases the current state of psychoanalytic political theory, maps the genealogy of its development, identifies its conceptual and methodological resources and highlights its analytical innovations as well as its critical promise. The Handbook consists of 35 chapters offering original, comprehensive and critical reviews of this field of study. The chapters are divided into five thematic sections: - Figures discusses the work of major psychoanalytic theorists who have influenced considerably the development of psychoanalytic political theory. - Traditions genealogically recounts and critically reassesses the many attempts...