Tomas Matza

Shock Therapy

Psychology, Precarity, and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia

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Produktbeschreibung

A sensitive ethnography of psychotherapy in Putin's Russia that offers profound insights into how the Soviet collapse not only reshaped Russia's political system but also everyday understandings of self and other.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780822370611
• ISBN-10: 0822370611
• Artikelnr.: 49448067

Autorenporträt

Tomas Matza is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Prelude: Bury That Part of Oneself  xvii
Introduction: An Yet . . .  1
Part I. Biopoliticus Interruptus  31
Interlude: Russian Shoes  33
1. "Tears of Bitterness and Joy": The Haunting Subject in Soviet
Biopolitics  37
Part II. (In)Commensurability  67
Interlude: Family Problems  69
2. "Wait, and the Train Will Have Left": The Success Complex and
Psychological Difference  71
3. "Now, Finally, We are Starting to Relax": On Civilizing Missions and
Democratic Desire  104
4. "What Do We Have the Right to Do?": Tactical Guidance at a Social
Margin  133
Part III. In Search of a Politics  165
Interlude: Public Spaces  167
5. "I Can Feel His Tears": Psychosociality under Putin  171
6. "Hello, Lena, You Are on the Air": Talk-Show Selves and the Dream of
Public Intimacy  197
Postlude: Subjects of Freedom  225
Conclusion: And Yet . . . So What?  227
Notes  243
References  275
Index  295