{"product_id":"psychoanalysis-and-governance-kristof-van-assche-9781032696645","title":"Psychoanalysis and Governance: Discourse and Decisions, Identities and Futures","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePsychoanalysis and Governance\u003c\/i\u003e makes a cogent argument for the use of psychoanalytic perspectives in the understanding of governance, the process of collective decision-making that maintains and reshapes communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is highly relevant to those interested in the ever-expanding field of applications of psychoanalysis and for all those willing to observe the discursive and affective underpinnings of public policy, administration, and planning. It locates the potential for self-analysis and self-transformation within governance, yet also indicates governance as the confluence of diverging understandings of the ideas of community and governance itself, as the place where competing desires and variegated patterns of fears and hopes collide and hold the transformational potential to destabilize the community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilding on Freudian, Lacanian, and other psychoanalytic traditions, the book enriches our understanding of governance, the way communities remember and forget, are haunted by the past, remain untransparent to themselves yet also retain the possibility of reinvention, of imagining alternative selves, new futures, and discover paths to move in that direction. This book will be a suitable for psychoanalysts, planners, and all those interested in informed governance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kristof Van Assche,Monica Gruezmacher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032696648\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032696645\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/12\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d","brand":"Kristof Van Assche","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48621900366079,"sku":"9781032696645","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_17f75a7e-74dd-4c30-ab9a-87f5c77a8bb1.jpg?v=1780427600","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/psychoanalysis-and-governance-kristof-van-assche-9781032696645","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}