What can contemporary psychoanalysis bring to the understanding of Generation X, a cohort for whom the trivialization of a dizzying array of possible experiences teamed with the pressure to lead spectacular lives often leads to diffuse feelings of confusion, depression, and disorientation? The Designed Self chronicles Strenger's therapeutic encounters with five extraordinarily gifted young adults for whom the ideal of authenticity long associated with the Baby-Boom generation was supplanted by the need to experiment endlessly with the self.
Key Features
- Insightful Exploration: Investigates how psychoanalysis must change to remain culturally relevant.
- Compelling Clinical Stories: Introduces patients navigating self-experimentation as a cultural imperative.
- Focus on Generation X: Highlights the unique challenges faced by this cohort.
Additional Information
Perpetual self-experimentation, constantly reinforced by the media, came to encompass everything from career choice to hair colour, body shape, and gender identity. At once insightful and cautionary, The Designed Self examines the evolving landscape of identity in contemporary society.
