Michael Rustin
Biographic Data
| ID | 119007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Rustin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Rustin |
| SIGNATURE | RUSTIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 72 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 69 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The case for nation states, particularly small ones
The ‘good old’ seventies
Subversive politics
Labour: Welfare, Freedom, Virtue, OK but New Thinking Needed
How can psychoanalytic interpretations of political situations have effects as actions
This article examines the difficulties of making use of psychoanalytic insights to understand and influence political events. In clinical practice, it has often been possible to bring about understanding and change in patients, and in that context, immense developments in psychoanalytic theories and techniques have taken place. But there is no parallel tradition giving rise to the interpretation of unconscious political phenomena although there h…
The idea of a democratic university
This article sets the current crisis of universities in the UK in its recent historical, post–1960s context. It argues that an expansionary and initially broadly progressive phase of development from the 1960s onwards, lasting for twenty-five or so years, has come in the recent neoliberal decades to be seen as a threat to the dominant social order, in the context of a broader resistance to the egalitarian and democratic trends of post-war British…
Capital or Democracy? A Review of Thomas Piketty's Capitalism and Ideology
Thomas Piketty's Capitalism and Ideology is the 1150-page 2020 sequel to Capital in the Twentieth Century, a best-selling publishing sensation in 2014 that described the inexorable growth of inequality under capitalism. Capitalism and Ideology develops the thesis of the earlier volume into a micro-historical account of the development of property-based societies. It proposes a strong programme for their reform in the direction of a renewed social…
Paraphrasing Leibnitz: The worst of all possible worlds
Identity or Identification? Why the Difference Between These Concepts Matters
This paper examines two major issues related to the concept of identity. The first of these concerns the place of this concept in psychoanalytic theory and practice, particularly taking note of its limited presence in the psychoanalytic literature of the British School of psychoanalysis. My argument is that the concept and phenomena of identification has been preferred to that of identity in the discourse of British Object Relations and considers…
Stuart Hall's contribution to criminology
The long revolution: Why the left needs a strategic and long- term perspective
How should a political party that is primarily focused on winning elections respond when it suffers a catastrophic electoral defeat? Some tactical steps have been taken by Keir Starmer, but there has been little engagement in the task of seeking an understanding of the deeper context of events and exploring new and memorable political ideas. One resource for a transformative perspective are the ideas of Raymond Williams: in particular the idea of…
The Moon is a long way away
The New Left and its legacies
Mike Rustin discusses his lifelong involvement in the New Left, which began when he was still at school. He describes the history of the First New Left, including the role played within it by figures such as Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams, and the role of the New Left in student politics in Oxford University, where Michael was a student and a leading member of the Labour club. He looks at the changing relationships between the …
How much was wrong with Corbynism
Corbynism from Below, edited by Mark Perryman. Lawrence and Wishart. 334pp. £15.00 The editor and authors of this collection of seventeen essays plainly did not expect that a few months after it was written, the Labour Party would experience its worst election defeat since 1983. Rather, this book was conceived during the period of Corbyn's successes—in winning two leadership elections, and in performing so well in the unexpected general election …
Where does economic value lie
Brexitannia
Psychoanalysis, social science and the Tavistock tradition
The unhappy divorce of sociology and psychoanalysis: Different perspectives on the psychosocial edited by Lynn Chancer and John Andrews
Psychoanalysis and cultural studies in Britain
Demovendo O Neoliberalismo
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Selected Political Writings: The Great Moving Right Show and Other Essays
The petrified ego: A new theory of conscience
Elizabeth Reddish's book argues for the continuing relevance of the concept of the superego for psychoanalytic theory and practice, against what she believes to be its virtual disappearance within
Social Defences Against Anxiety: Explorations in a Paradigm
Belonging to oneself alone: The spirit of neoliberalism
After neoliberalism: Analysing the present
Children's Independent Spatial Mobility in the Urban Public Realm
This article examines children's spatial mobility in urban settings. Through data from a study of children living in contrasting urban environments, London and a lower-density new town, the article focuses on how children move around in the public realm. The data show that there are significant variations in how contemporary children use their public spaces. Children's freedom to move around their neighbourhood was greatest in the new town. Girls…
Schools of Thought: Twenty-Five Years of Interpretive Social Science
Schools of Thought brings together a cast of prominent scholars to assess, with unprecedented breadth and vigor, the intellectual revolution over the past quarter century in the social sciences. This collection of twenty essays stems from a 1997 conference that celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Social Science. The authors, who represent a wide range of disciplines, are all associated with the …
Belonging to oneself alone: The spirit of neoliberalism
Absolute Voluntarism: Critique of a Post-Marxist Concept of Hegemony
Empire: A Postmodern Theory of Revolution
Literary criticism and book review of Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, published by Cambridge Mass and London: Harvard University Press. 2000. The publication is heralded as a major treatise which attempts to give a coherent theoretical shape to global conflicts and a systematic treatise in political theory which sets out an argument for revolution
Identity or Identification? Why the Difference Between These Concepts Matters
This paper examines two major issues related to the concept of identity. The first of these concerns the place of this concept in psychoanalytic theory and practice, particularly taking note of its limited presence in the psychoanalytic literature of the British School of psychoanalysis. My argument is that the concept and phenomena of identification has been preferred to that of identity in the discourse of British Object Relations and considers…
The Risks of Assessing Ethical Risks
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New Labour and the theory of globalization
This article argues that the theoretical basis of the New Labour project was sociological in its framing, drawing in particular on the ideas of Anthony Giddens. The theory of globalization, individualization and risk advanced by him and others became the rationale for New Labour's rejection of `traditional' socialist and welfare ideologies, holding the collectivist, materialist and class-based politics that these had upheld to be now obsolete. Ho…
Lectures: Part One: Introduction to Quentin Skinner: Interpretation in psychoanalysis and history
The article on interpretation by the historian, Quentin Skinner, published in the present issue of the IJP, is concerned with textual analysis rather than psychoanalysis, yet the debate in which it
How can psychoanalytic interpretations of political situations have effects as actions
This article examines the difficulties of making use of psychoanalytic insights to understand and influence political events. In clinical practice, it has often been possible to bring about understanding and change in patients, and in that context, immense developments in psychoanalytic theories and techniques have taken place. But there is no parallel tradition giving rise to the interpretation of unconscious political phenomena although there h…
Revisiting Charter 88
This article reviews the emergence of Charter 88 as a response to a particular political conjuncture in British politics. It argues that its programme of reform was not so much an attempt to resolve a political crisis that had proved unmanageable within the existing constitutional settlement, as an attempt to redefine and achieve the political goals of the liberal left by constitutional means. The article discusses the considerable successes of t…
For Dialogue Between Psychoanalysis and Constructionism: A Comment on Paper by Frosh and Baraitser
The non-obsolescence of the right to work
Structural and Unconscious Implications of the Dyad and Triad: An Essay in Theoretical Integration; Durkheim, Simmel, Freud
Mr.Love and Justice
Young Socialists
the first Young Socialist Conference, this Easter, can give only limited encouragement to those who hope for a movement of young people carrying into broader socialist terms the activity and idealism of CND. The Conference was dominated by a violent confrontation of left and right wingers, over
Oxford Opinions
two articles “reviewing” university lectures in the Oxford student magazine Isis have aroused considerable and much publicised controversy. The University Proctors (a special disciplinary body peculiar to Oxford and Cambridge) banned further lecture reviews, and the Isis editor’s indignant, but gleeful protests won a considerable sympathetic response
The Relevance of Mills' Sociology
C. Wright Mills’ sociology attempted to explain the structure and main drift of American society in the twentieth century, and with that some of the main trends in all industrialized societies. It was a huge aim, in the central tradition of sociology and social thought. His main theses
Structural and Unconscious Implications of the Dyad and Triad: An Essay in Theoretical Integration; Durkheim, Simmel, Freud
The Semiology of 'La Chinoise
The New Left and the Present Crisis
This paper is a reflection on the present condition of the Left, and on its recent history. It is meant to address our current situation, and indeed to suggest action, but I have not found it possible to do this without thinking about previous initiatives of the earlier
Different Conceptions of Party: Labour’s Constitutional Debates
The Constitution of the Labour Party has for some years been the chosen terrain for an intensifying battle between left and right, over the issues of mandatory reselection of mp’s by their constituency parties, the determination of the party’s election manifesto, and the method of electing the
A Socialist Consideration of Kleinian Psychoanalysis
This article may be best introduced autobiographically, since the general project it touches, the relationship between psychoanalytic and political theory, isn’t one that I think has often been very fruitfully pursued from the point of view in which I am interested, and may seem unpromising at the outset
A Statutory Right to Work
It was widely believed after the Second World War in Britain that the ‘right to work’ had been generally won; the greatest economic evil of the prewar years seemed to have been overcome through reforms. Yet now, again, unemployment has returned in a seemingly permanent form and there
Restructuring the State
This article contrasts two strategic options for the Labour Party and the Left in the approach to the next election in Britain. One, the option chosen by the Labour leadership, is to seek to recapture the votes lost to the Alliance parties since 1981 by occupying their political
Lessons of the London Industrial Strategy
In the past few difficult years for the Left in Britain, the greatest cause for hope has been the initiatives of the new ‘city socialism’ of the metropolitan county councils such as the glc. They have succeeded in demonstrating the positive value of public provision—in transport and
Electoral reform
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMichael RustinThe above extract is taken from a longer discussion in his latest book ‘For a Pluralist Socialism’. Verso 1985, in which he debates ‘Political Arguments for Proportional Representation
The non-obsolescence of the right to work
For a Pluralist Socialism
Shifting Paradigms in Psychoanalysis since the 1940s
Journal Article Shifting Paradigms in Psychoanalysis since the 1940s Get access Michael Rustin Michael Rustin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 26, Issue 1, Autumn 1988, Pages 133–142, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/26.1.133 Published: 01 October 1988
Absolute Voluntarism: Critique of a Post-Marxist Concept of Hegemony
Post-Kleinian Psychoanalysis and the Post-Modern
In a number of papers written in the early 1980s, I attempted to explore the social and political affiliations of Kleinian psychoanalysis in Britain. I characterized some of the leading themes, both implicit and explicit, of Kleinian work, and suggested some connections between these and the social preoccupations
The Politics of Post-Fordism: Or, The Trouble with 'New Times
The ‘post-Fordist’ hypothesis concerning the development of a new ‘mode of regulation’ of modern capitalism is a fertile and important one. It was developed, following Gramsci’s key early understanding of the significance of mass production and consumption, by Michel Aglietta and other members of the ‘regulation school’ in
Psychoanalysis and Social Theory: The Limits of Sociology/ The Suspended Revolution: Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Re-examined (Book)
The Good Society and the Inner World: Psychoanalysis, Politics and Culture
Citizenship and Charter 88
The great written constitutions, from which the idea of constitutional reform unavoidably borrows some of its aura, have set out to redefine the fundamental relationships of citizens, society and government as these were perceived at the time of their writing. The American Declaration of Independence asserted the rights
No Exit from Capitalism
Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man is the book of its historical moment, of Western triumph, as Paul Kennedy’s Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1988) was of a slightly earlier phase of American self-doubt. Its thesis, that capitalist democracy is the final
Trading Work and Pay
Gary Cross's article is a valuable and welcome attempt to extend the scope of labor history. to give attention to issues of popular culture and consumption that have been brought to current prominence especially by work in the field of cultural studies. Clearly this move reflects wider changes in society, in which the hegemony of commodity production appears to be exercised as much through the attractions of advertising and the shopping mall as t…
Managing Modern Capitalism: Industrial Renewal and Workplace Democracy in the United States and Western Europe. M. Donald Hancock , John Logue , Bernt Schiller
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