Emotional Life and the Politics of Welfare

Like most of my writing, this book has taken a full decade to accumulate. Two of the chapters are based on work I have published elsewhere. Chapter 4 is based on the article 'A place for experience: a psychoanalytic perspective on boundary, identity and culture', Front Matter....Pages i-xii Unreasonable Subjects....Pages 1-21 Strangers to Ourselves?....Pages 22-44 Conflict, Difference and Dialogue....Pages 45-66 A Place for Experience....Pages 67-85 Building Castles in the Sand: Racial and Ethnic Identities in Civil Society....Pages 86-102 Finding Your Voice....Pages 103-123 Mobilising Fictions....Pages 124-142 The Internal Establishment....Pages 143-158 Hatred of Dependency....Pages 159-180 Ethical Foundations of Welfare Universalism....Pages 181-209 Back Matter....Pages 210-229 Social policy and political theory are based upon rationalist models of the human subject. Drawing particularly upon contemporary Kleinian and feminist political theory the author explores the powerful role that emotions such as love, hate and fear play in the development of the human subject. From this base the book then examines a range of contemporary issues such as employment, dependency, care and generosity, conflict and oppression which are relevant to struggles around the welfare state. Paul Hoggett ; Foreword By Fiona Williams ; Consultant Editor, Jo Campling. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.