Psychosocial Imaginaries Perspectives on Temporality, Subjectivities and Activism

With a Foreword by Judith Butler.
Psychosocial Imaginaries collects together essays by members of the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, one of the key sites for the development of psychosocial studies in the UK. Psychosocial studies is a new and exciting area of work that challenges the traditions of psychology and sociology from a genuinely transdisciplinary perspective. This book reflects this agenda in its very varied theoretical and empirical strands, producing a newly contextualised and restless body of understanding of how 'psychic' and 'social' processes intertwine.

Stephen Frosh is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. He is the author of many books on psychosocial studies, psychoanalysis and social theory, including Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions, Hate and the Jewish Science, and The Politics of Psychoanalysis.

Foreword; Judith Butler
1. Touching Time: Maintenance, Endurance, Care; Lisa Baraitser
2. Indefinite Delay: On (Post) Apartheid Temporality; Derek Hook
3. From Event to Criticality? A Study of Heidegger, Lacan, Benjamin and Derrida; Margarita Palacios
4. The Circus of (Male) Ageing: Philp Roth and the Perils of Masculinity; Lynne Segal
5. Re-Thinking Vulnerability and Resilience Through a Psychosocial Reading of Shakespeare; Elizabeth Chapman Hoult
6. The Demise of the Analogue Mind: Digital Primal Fantasies and the Technologies of Loss-less-ness; Amber Jacobs
7. The Vicissitudes of Postcolonial Citizenship and Belonging in Late Liberalism; Sasha Roseneil
8. Knowing and Not Knowing: Implicatory Denial and Defence Mechanisms in Response to Human Rights Abuses; Bruna Seu
9. What We are Left With: Psychoanalytic Endings; Stephen Frosh