Happiness Studies and Wellbeing: A Lacanian Critique of Contemporary Conceptualisations of the Cure

Happiness Studies and Wellbeing: A Lacanian Critique of Contemporary Conceptualisations of the Cure

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Criticising the discourse of happiness and wellbeing from a psychoanalytic perspective, this article is in five parts. The first offers a brief philosophical genealogy of happiness, charting its diverse meanings from ancient Greece, through Medieval Scholasticism and on to bourgeois liberalism, uti...

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Main Author: Colin Wright
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linköping University Electronic Press 2014-10-01
Series:Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research
Subjects:
Happiness studies
wellbeing
self-help
positive psychology
biopolitics psychoa-nalysis
Jacques Lacan
Online Access:https://journal.ep.liu.se/test3212/index.php/CU/article/view/2113

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