Happiness Studies and Wellbeing: A Lacanian Critique of Contemporary Conceptualisations of the Cure
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, util...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Linköping University Electronic Press
2014-10-01
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| Series: | Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.146791 |