Josh Cohen – Politics, Rage and Psychoanalysis

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Guildford Centre for Psychotherapy

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GCP Annual Lecture – Josh Cohen – Politics, Rage and Psychoanalysis

This lecture will develop and bring up to date some of the key themes and arguments of Josh Cohen’s 2024 book All the Rage: Why Anger Drives the World.

Drawing in particular on its discussions of ‘righteous’ and ‘cynical’ rage, Cohen suggests that the sealed self-certainty of righteous rhetoric and the predatory opportunism of cynical politics have merged to produce increasingly dangerous and disintegrative political dynamics around the world, giving rise to spreading violence, authoritarianism and lawlessness. Josh will explore the resources psychoanalysis can offer to help make sense of this malaise and to imagine different forms of political and social life.

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