<p>The 1992 presidential election campaign showed just how deep were the divisions within the Republican party.  In <i>Beautiful Losers</i>, Samuel Francis argues that the victory of the Democratic party marks not only the end of the Reagan-Bush era, but the failure of the American conservatism.</p>

Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism (Volume 1)

History

Francis, Samuel

Americas

University of Missouri

The 1992 presidential election campaign showed just how deep were the divisions within the Republican party.  In Beautiful Losers, Samuel Francis argues that the victory of the Democratic party marks not only the end of the Reagan-Bush era, but the failure of the American conservatism.

Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism

A study of psychology and the psychological in J.G. Ballard's fiction that traces the influence of Sigmund Freud, C.G. Jung and R.D. Laing.>

The Psychological Fictions of J. G. Ballard (Continuum Literary Studies)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Continnuum-3PL

J. G. Ballard self-professedly 'devoured' the work of Freud as a teenager, and entertained early thoughts of becoming a psychiatrist; he opened his novel-writing career with a manifesto declaring his wish to write a science fiction exploring not outer but 'inner space', and declaring the need for contemporary fiction to be viewed 'as a branch of neurology'. He also apparently welcomed a reader's report on Crash (1973) condemning him as 'beyond psychiatric help' as confirming his achievement of 'total artistic success'. Samuel Francis investigates Ballard's engagement with psychology and the psychological in his fiction, tracing the influence of key figures including Sigmund Freud, C.G. Jung and R.D. Laing and placing his work in the context of the wider fields of psychology and psychiatry. While the psychological preoccupations of his writing are very clear - including his use of concepts such as the unconscious, psychopathology, 'deviance', obsession, abnormal psychology and schizophrenia - this is the first book to offer a detailed analysis of this key conceptual and historical context for his fiction.

The Psychological Fictions of J.G. Ballard (Continuum Literature Studies Series)

Bloomsbury Academic

James Burnham: Thinkers of Our Time

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Claridge Press Ltd.

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