The Neurotic Turn

by Charles Johns

Taking their cue from the work of Charles Johns, who has argued that, far from being an ailment, neurosis is in fact the dominant condition of our society today, an array of thinkers have gathered in  The Neurotic Turn  to address the what can ‘neurosis’ tell us about our current social impasse?

What emerges in  The Neurotic Turn  is the awareness that the medicalization of neurosis was merely provisional. Today, to understand our increasingly synthetic, digitized world, we cannot retreat from neurosis, or pretend to offer its cure. Instead, we must confront it — dispensing with the conventional idea of ‘reality’ in order to redefine it.

437 pages, Paperback

First published November 14, 2017

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