Lost in Perfection: Impacts of Optimisation on Culture and Psyche

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Vera King (Sigmund-Freud-Institut, Germany) Benigna Gerisch (International Psychoanalytic University Berlin, Germany)

Lost in Perfection

Impacts of Optimisation on Culture and Psyche

Vera King (Sigmund-Freud-Institut, Germany), Benigna Gerisch (International Psychoanalytic University Berlin, Germany), Hartmut Rosa (Institut für Soziologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität-Jena, Germany) , Julia Schreiber

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Routledge
26 July 2018

Cultural studies; Illness & addiction: social aspects; Social theory; Personal & public health; Medical sociology

Series: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory

The permanent struggle for optimisation can be seen as one of the most significant cultural principles of contemporary Western societies: the demand for improved performance and efficiency as well as the pursuit of self-improvement are con-sidered necessary in order to keep pace with an accelerated, competitive modern-ity. This affects not only work and education, but also family life, parent–child relationships and intimate relationships in respect to the body and the self, in regard to the public as well as the private realm. Bringing together contributions from renowned scholars from the fields of sociology, psychology and psycho-analysis, this book explores the impacts of optimisation on culture and psyche, examining the contradictions and limitations of optimisation, in conjunction with the effects of social transformations on individuals and shifts in regard to the meaning of ‘pathology’ and ‘normality’.

Contributions by: Julia Schreiber, Benedikt Salfeld
Edited by: Vera King (Sigmund-Freud-Institut Germany), Benigna Gerisch (International Psychoanalytic University Berlin, Germany), Hartmut Rosa (Institut für Soziologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität-Jena, Germany)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9781138894365
ISBN 10: 1138894362
Series: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
Pages: 198
Publication Date: 26 July 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Vera King is Professor of Sociology and Social Psychology at Goethe University and Managing Director of the Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt a.M., Germany. Benigna Gerisch is Professor of Clinical Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Intervention and Psychodynamic Counselling at International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin, Germany. She trained as a psychoanalyst and is a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). Hartmut Rosa is Professor of Sociology at Jena University and Director of the Max-Weber-Center, Germany. He is the author of Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity.