Ideas In Psychoanalysis: Affect

'Ideas In Psychoanalysis' is a series of essays which explain psychoanalytical concepts, their relevance to everyday life and their ability to illuminate the nature of human society and culture.

This book refers to the strange emotions we often centre on external objects, and the corresponding system of values we create by these attachments. Through consideration of the media spectacle and mass emotion of events like Princess Diana's death, the book challenges the view that emotion is a private affair, distinct from our public personas.