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, util...

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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:	http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.146791

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