Bowker, Matthew H.
D.W. Winnicott and Political Theory
1. Introduction
Matthew H. Bowker, Amy Buzby
Part I. The Subject’s Creation: Aggression, Isolation, and Destruction
2. Being and Encountering: Movement and Aggression in Winnicott
Jeremy Elkins
3. The Isolation of the True Self and the Problem of Impingement: Implications of Winnicott’s Theory for Social Connection and Political Engagement
David P. Levine
4. The Psychoanalytic Winnicott We Need Now: On the Way to a Real Ecological Thought
Melissa A. Orlie
Part II. The Subject Faced with Deprivation and Disaster
5. Playing ‘Riot’: Identity in Refuge—Absent Child Narratives in the 2013 Hindu–Muslim Riots in Muzaffarnagar, India
Zehra Mehdi
6. Safety in Danger and Privacy in Privation: Ambivalent Fantasies of Natural States Invoked in Reaction to Loss
Matthew H. Bowker
7. “Out Like a Lion”:
Bonnie Honig
8. Forgiveness and Transitional Experience
C. Fred Alford
Part III. Revitalizing the Subject of Political Theory
9. In Transition, But to Where?: Winnicott, Integration, and Democratic Associations
David W. McIvor
10. Vanquishing the False Self: Winnicott, Critical Theory, and the Restoration of the Spontaneous Gesture
Amy Buzby
11. Adults in the Playground: Winnicott and Arendt on Politics and Playfulness
John LeJeune
Part IV. Intersubjectivity, Justice, and Equality
12. D.W. Winnicott, Ethics, and Race: Psychoanalytic Thought and Racial Equality in the United States
Alex Zamalin
13. Winnicott at Work: Potential Space and the Facilitating Organization
Michael A. Diamond
14. Winnicott and the History of Welfare State Thought in Britain
Gal Gerson
15. Vulnerability, Dependence, Sovereignty, and Ego-Distortion Theory: Psychoanalyzing Political Behaviors in the Developing World
Robert C. Chalwell
Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Democracy, Self and Identity, Childhood, Adolescence and Society
- Editor
- Bowker, Matthew H.
- Buzby, Amy
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2017
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 17 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137575333
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-137-57713-9