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Private Solutions to Public Problems? Psychoanalysis and the Emotions

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Psychoanalysis does not usually characterise itself as an investigation of the affects. Its object of study is not the emotions, but the unconscious mind, which is seen to have both cognitive and sentient dimensions, inseparably linked together. Indeed the refusal of the split between emotions and reason, as spheres requiring different modes of understanding, one belonging to the humanities, the other to the sciences, has been a challenge by psychoanalysis to the dominant academic conventions. Freud, as Schorske (1998) pointed out, was drawn powerfully both to the sciences — he was initially a doctor and a neurologist — and to the arts, and the hybrid form of investigation which he initiated draws on both the systematising and fact-gathering methods of the sciences and the imaginative and interpretative approaches of the humanities (Rustin, 2001).

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  1. Nottingham Trent University, UK

    Perri Six

  2. University of East London, UK

    Susannah Radstone  & Corinne Squire  & 

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    Amal Treacher

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Rustin, M. (2007). Private Solutions to Public Problems? Psychoanalysis and the Emotions. In: Perri Six, Radstone, S., Squire, C., Treacher, A. (eds) Public Emotions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598225_8

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