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The Psychic Life of the Political: A Conversation with Derek Hook

(Interviewed by Heather Macdonald, Lesley University)

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In his interview Derek Hook argues for a more sustained psychosocial engagement with the temporalities of overlapping and entangled histories that comprise psychological systems of knowledge. Through his scholarship, he observes the complex relationship between human desire and power as it continually forms and returns in the complex flow of political and psychological streams of human experience (Hook 2012a, b, c, 2013c, d). The interview with Hook offer the reader a critical engagement with crucial aspects of psychosocial discourse, including such issues as the racialization of space, remembrance, the body, human identity, oppression, structural violence, and mental illness, in order to explore the psychical mechanisms that undergird and substantiate these modes of reality.

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  1. Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Derek Hook

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  1. Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Heather Macdonald

  2. Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA

    David Goodman

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    Brian Becker

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Hook, D. (2017). The Psychic Life of the Political: A Conversation with Derek Hook. In: Macdonald, H., Goodman, D., Becker, B. (eds) Dialogues at the Edge of American Psychological Discourse. Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59096-1_10

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