Provocative, insightful and brilliantly written by Professor Wahbie Long, Nation on the Couch explores life in our beloved country through the lens of psychoanalysis. By focusing on the idea of a ‘political unconscious’, it argues that there is much to be learnt from excavating the inner life of South Africans, which can illuminate the external problems that beset us from all sides.
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The book Nation On The Couch explores life in our beloved country through the lens of psychoanalysis.
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Professor Wahbie Long, clinical psychologist and associate professor of psychology at the University of Cape Town, wrote the book, Nation On The Couch , which explores life in our beloved country through the lens of psychoanalysis.
The brilliantly written book focuses on the idea of a ‘political unconscious’, it argues that there is much to be learnt from excavating the inner life of South Africans, which can illuminate the external problems that beset us from all sides.
South Africa’s main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), has suffered a series of recent public embarrassments as a clutch of its senior figures, including its national leader, John Steenhuisen, a party provincial head or two and yet other members of Parliament such as Natasha Mazzone, have had their claimed academic credentials or the lack of them called into public question about whether they are well-enough educated for national leadership.
While these occurrences have made headlines, bruised egos, rubbished reputations in many eyes, and even forced a sullen withdrawal from public office for several individuals, they have not been the only times outings over false or absent credentials have occurred in South Africa. Political figures from the governing party and others have also been forced to carry out painful public retreats from claims in their CVs or to issue a painful admission if they have allowed such claims to be widely circulated on their behalf.