Introduction: Society and the Unconscious -- On the Significance of Freudian Cultural Theory for the Theory and Practice of Psychoanalysis -- The Psychological Housing of Our Culture -- Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Basic Trauma of Our Culture -- Cultural Psychoanalytic Reflections on Freud's Sexual Theory -- The Psychological Housing of Our Culture. Sigmund Freud's contributions to the psychology of love life -- Cultural psychoanalytic reflections on the libido theory -- The foundation of a critical psychoanalytic cultural psychology by Trigant Burrow in 1924 -- The psychological basis of the collective unconscious -- One Hundred Years of Totem and Taboo - Psychoanalytic Cultural Theory Today -- The Uncertain in Gender Relations -- Why Love Hurts - On the Cultural Psychology of Gender Relations Today -- The Discomfort in Society or: The Shifting of Sociostructural Boundaries -- Sociostructural foundations of the collective unconscious in our society -- Cultural psychoanalytical reflections on the financial crisis of 2008 -- The risk society - strengthening the ego, overburdening the self? -- The reproduction of social power relations in the theory and treatment technique of group analysis.

This book will interest anyone seeking a comprehensive understanding of the psychological relationship between individual psychological dynamics, social structure and the unconscious collective paradigms. It focuses on an analysis of patriarchal culture, which is, as it were, the psychological enclosure in which all individual and collective processes take place. Starting from the genesis and current structure of this culture, the strong social changes of the last 50 years are examined: the change in relations between men and women social relations in terms of solidarity and desolidarisation the situation of social security the social and political power relations, and the economic dynamics. At the same time, collective fantasies are elaborated that emerge from the socio-structural changes. The basis of the study is psychoanalytical cultural theory in the form of a cultural-critical deconstruction of its fundamental assumptions. In 16 interesting chapters, essential questions of psychological cultural theory are answered and practical applications of this theory to current sociostructural processes are shown. The author Dr Dieter Sandner is a psychoanalyst and group analyst in private practice in Munich. He studied psychology, sociology and philosophy at the University of Munich and habilitated in 1995 at the Faculty of Cultural Studies at the University of Klagenfurt in "Psychology with Special Reference to Psychoanalysis". His teaching focuses on group analysis, cultural psychology and clinical social psychology (depression and society, borderline personality disorder and society). .