Acting Out in Groups

ed. Laurence A. Rickels

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Editor(s)

Laurence A. Rickels

Publication, year

Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, 1999

Scope

232 Pages, 23 cm.

ISBN

0816633215

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Examines outrageous public behavior and what it can tell us about cultural and political change. The International Psychoanalytic Congress gathered in 1967 to define the clinical concept of "acting out." Thirty years later, our society, which once labeled those who exhibited excessive aggression as delinquent, celebrates outrageous public behavior. In Acting Out in Groups, writers, literary theorists, and cultural critics explore therapeutic descriptions of acting out in relation to the conduct condoned, even encouraged, on daytime TV talk shows, at political rallies, and in performance.

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Person as subject

Kathy Acker, Gary Indiana, Klaus Theweleit, ...[et al.]

Location

Cabinet 31 - 2: Lichaam en omgeving

Extra themes

Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;