Narcissism, Melancholia and the Subject of Community

Barry Sheils is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies at Durham University, UK.Julie Walsh is a lecturer in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, UK, and a psychoanalytic therapist in London.

• 1. Introduction:  Narcissism, Melancholia and the Subject of Community; Barry Sheils and Julie Walsh.- 2. Narcissism and Melancholia from the Psychoanalytical Perspective of Object Relations; Michael Rustin.- 3. Narcissism through the Digital Looking Glass; Jay Watts.- 4. Something to do with a girl named Marla Singer: Capitalism, Narcissism, and Therapeutic Discourse in David Fincher’s Fight Club; Lynne Layton.- 5. Melancholia, the death drive and Into the Wild; Derek Hook.- 6. The Monster in the Mirror: Theoretical and Clinical Reflections on Primary Narcissism and Melancholia; Dorothée Bonnigal-Katz.- 7. Shame, Pain and Melancholia for the Australian Constitution; Juliet B. Rogers.- 8. Dr Fanon on Colonial Narcissism and Anti-Colonial Melancholia; Colin Wright.- 9. This Nothing Held in Common: Towards a Theory of Activism Beyond the Community of One; Barry Watt.- 10. Neurotic and Paranoid Citizens; Stephen Frosh.- 11. Narcissism, Melancholia and the Exhaustion of the‘Journeying’ Subject; Anastasios Gaitanidis.