TY  - BOOK
AU  - Salecl,Renata
TI  - On anxiety
T2  - Thinking in action
SN  - 0415312760
AV  - BF575.A6 S25 2004
U1  - 152.46 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Anxiety
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Anxiety disorders
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-166) and index; Anxiety at times of war -- Anxiety and fear -- Fantasy as a defense from anxiety -- Anxiety and the desire of the other -- Mourning and suicide -- Fantasy of Bayonet killing -- Anxiety-free wars -- Arts and death -- Success in failure or how hypercapitalism relies on peoples feeling of inadequacy -- Anxiety between desire and jouissance -- Anxiety and the new imaginary -- The horror of poverty -- Against contingency -- Love anxieties -- Love letters or what does a hysteric want -- Cyrano de Bergerac or obsessional desire -- Law of desire or the perverts trap -- Anxiety of motherhood -- Psychoanalysis and crime -- Infanticide as a way to discover a woman behind a mother -- Religion and psychosis -- Psychotic love -- Paranoid parenting -- Telling it all -- Can testimony offer a cure for anxiety? -- Father don't you hear me? -- Son's liberation through father's sacrifice
N2  - "We frequently hear that we live in an age of anxiety, from "therapy culture," the Atkins diet and child anti-depressants to gun culture and weapons of mass destruction. While Hollywood regularly cashes in on teenage anxiety through its Scream franchise, pharmaceutical companies churn out new drugs such as Paxil to combat newly diagnosed anxieties." "On Anxiety takes a psychological plunge behind the scenes of our panic-stricken culture and into anxious minds, asking who and what is responsible. Putting anxiety on the couch, Renata Salecl asks some much-needed questions: Is anxiety about the absence of authority or too much of it? Do the media report anxiety or create it? Are drugs a cure for anxiety or its cause? Is anxiety about being yourself or someone else, and is anxiety really the ultimate obstacle to happiness?" "Drawing on examples from film such as the X Files and Cyrano de Bergerac, drugs used on soldiers to combat anxiety, the anxieties of love and motherhood, and fake Holocaust memoirs, Renata Salecl argues that what really produces anxiety is the attempt to get rid of it." "On Anxiety is essential reading for anyone interested in philosophy, psychology and the cultural phenomenon of anxiety today."--BOOK JACKET
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