Containing tensions: Psychoanalysis and modern policymaking

In: Juncture: incorporating PPR, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 157-163

Abstract

Andrew Cooper outlines a psychoanalytic approach to policymaking, one which 'insists on the thick textures of social and personal suffering, desire and aspiration as its point of departure for theory and action and speaks to the inherent value of participatory democracy'.