Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat by Hannah Proctor (English

Description: Burnout by Hannah Proctor How to maintain hope in the face of despair FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Hannah Proctor prescribes a healthy dose of criticism for psychoanalytic or psychiatric approaches that fail to grasp how it feels to struggle for a better world — especially struggles that end in defeat, disillusionment, and exhaustion. Meditating on trauma, anxiety, mourning, and rage, Proctor draws from the diverse ways that activists and revolutionaries have confronted the emotional impacts of their political experiences to offer an alternative that asks, should we have to choose between Freuds couch or a march in the streets?Burnout deftly situates self-care and wellness in a long historical perspective, visiting former Communards who fought on the Parisian barricades as they gaze in anguish at the Pacific Ocean; a young Bolshevik who leaves the city to seek treatment for despair; an ex-militant who lies on a psychoanalysts couch describing dreams of ruined landscapes; a trade union organizer calling on a spiritual healer; and a group of young feminists padding a room in a squat with mattresses so that they can scream together about the patriarchy. Jettisoning therapy talk and its stranglehold on our language and visions of the good life, Proctor offers a different way forward. Her cogent exploration of the ways militants make sense of their own burnout demonstrates that it is possible to mourn and organize, altogether and at once. Author Biography Hannah Proctor is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, interested in histories and theories of radical psychiatry. She is a member of the editorial collective behind Radical Philosophy, and has been published in Jacobin, Tribune, The New Inquiry and elsewhere. Table of Contents IntroductionPart I. Historical Symptoms: Past Attachments 1. Melancholia2. Nostalgia3. DepressionPart II. Survival Pending Revolution: Patient Urgency4. Burnout5. Exhaustion6. BitternessPart III. Concepts Transformed: Anti-Adaptive Healing7. Trauma8. MourningAfterwordAcknowledgementsNotesIndex Review Hannah Proctor is one of the best writers on the left today, and this is an extraordinary and extremely timely book - a kaleidoscopic work of revolutionary history on what happens when our day doesnt come and we have to cope with the consequences. Refusing both the easy temptations of left melancholia and forced just another push, comrades! optimism, this is a book full of unromantic communist longing, deadpan humour and hard-won wisdom. -- Owen Hatherley, author of The Ministry of NostalgiaNot since Freud first described war neurosis have we been treated to such an astonishing taxonomy of the human mind. In Burnout, Hannah Proctor takes that feeling we all have, and names it again and again, helping us to resee the past and present of revolutionary struggle. A must-read. -- Hannah Zeavin, Founding Editor, ParapraxisAchieves commendable synthesis between its argument and sources ... The more people are writing books like Burnout, the better we might overcome our pains, and remain in the struggle. -- Juliet Jacques * ArtReview *Brilliant ... an invigorating reader experience. Activists will find strange comfort in knowing that burnout is a collective affliction that has loomed large over our social movements for centuries ... While its effects can be profoundly personal, it can unite us too. -- Janey Starling * Unison Magazine *Proctor deftly dismantles contemporary self-care edicts that aim to streamline our participation in capitalism. -- Decca Muldowney * New Internationalist *A joy to read ... deeply thoughtful and intelligent. -- Hel Spandler * Asylum Magazine *Elegantly and forensically investigates the historic suffering of revolutionaries and the pain of living in the gap between communist dreams and capitalist reality. -- Henry Bell * Morning Star *Essential -- Juliet Jacques * Tribune *Proctor wishes to depart from the usual left use of history, which is to find present-day inspiration in past victories or revolutionary moments..Instead, she asks, what can we learn from the emotional experience of defeat? -- Liza Featherstone * Jacobin *Provocative...Burnout is a book about the psychic life of radical movements; it is also a book about defeat-because that is the primary psychic experience of the radical life. -- Sam Adler-Bell * Nation * Promotional A moving, must-read exploration of the emotional life of political struggle Details ISBN1839766050 Author Hannah Proctor Short Title Burnout Publisher Verso Books Language English ISBN-10 1839766050 ISBN-13 9781839766053 Imprint Verso Books Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Year 2024 NZ Release Date 2024-02-13 Audience General Pages 272 Format Paperback Subtitle The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat DEWEY 323.042019 AU Release Date 2024-06-03 Publication Date 2024-04-09 UK Release Date 2024-04-09 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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