Culture and the Unconscious

CAROLINE BAINBRIDGE is Senor Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Roehampton University, UK, where she is also Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Film and Audio-Visual Cultures (www.crfac.org). She is the co-editor of a special edition of Journal for Cultural Research on trauma in the field of visual culture. SUSANNAH RADSTONE is Reader in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of East London, UK. Her recent publications include two companion volumes Contested Pasts: The Politics of Memory and Regimes of Memory. Her f

• Notes on Contributors Introduction: Culture and the Unconscious: Framing the Debate; M.Rustin PART 1: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND CULTURE: HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL ENCOUNTERS Introduction: S.Radstone A City of Souls and the Soul of the City: Alfred Döblin and the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute; V.Fuechtner A New Naturalism: On the Origins of Psychoanalysis as a Social Theory of Subjectivity; K.Figlio The Unconscious and Others: Rescue, Inclusivity and the Eroticisation of Difference in 1930s Vienna; M.Nava Psychoanalysis and Culture in Secular Times; M.Rustin Thinking Art and Psychoanalysis; J.Sayers Michel de Certeau and the Possibilities of Psychoanalytic Cultural Studies; B.Highmore PART 2: CULTURE AND TRAUMA AS WORKING THROUGH Introduction: C.Bainbridge & C.Yates Everything to Play For: Masculinity, Trauma and the Pleasures of DVD Technologies; C.Bainbridge & C.Yates Landscape After Ruins; P.Cohen "Father, Can't You See I'm Burning?" Trauma, Ethics and the Possibility of Community in J.M.Coetzee's 'Age of Iron'; S.Durrant Film, Feminism and Melanie Klein: 'Weird Lullabies'; S.Gordon PART 3: THE VIEW FROM THE CLINIC Introduction Reality and Unreality in Fact and Fiction; R.Britton The Idealisation of a Lost Object in Julietta and in Clinical Work; D.Hindle & S.Godsil Grief in the Mother's Eyes: A Search for Identity; M.Reid Forever Young: Not Psychoanalysing Bob Dylan; M.Lawrence & G.Pearson Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Dionysiac and the Apollonian in Euripides' Bacchae ; D.Bell Clinical and Academic Psychoanalytic Criticism: Differences That Matter; S.Radstone Index