Freud, Psychoanalysis, Social Theory
Title | Freud, Psychoanalysis, Social Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Fred Weinstein |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9780791448410 |
Discusses the reasons for the decline of the cultural influence of psychoanalysis.
Social Theory, Psychoanalysis and Racism
Title | Social Theory, Psychoanalysis and Racism PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Clarke |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 198 |
Release | 2017-03-04 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1137099577 |
Sociological explanations of racism tend to concentrate on the structures and dynamics of modern life that facilitate discrimination and hierarchies of inequality. In doing so, they often fail to address why racial hatred arises (as opposed to how it arises) as well as to explain why it can be so visceral and explosive in character. Bringing together sociological perspectives with psychoanalytic concepts and tools, this text offers a clear, accessible and thought-provoking synthesis of varieties of theory, with the aim of clarifying the complex character of racism, discrimination and social exclusion in the contemporary world.
The Colonization of Psychic Space
Title | The Colonization of Psychic Space PDF eBook |
Author | Kelly Oliver |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0816644748 |
Oliver (philosophy, Vanderbilt U.) does not attempt to apply psychoanalysis to oppression. Rather she transforms psychoanalytic concepts such as alienation, melancholy, and shame into social concepts by developing a psychoanalytic theory based on a notion of the individual or psyche that is thoroughly social. The psyche and the social world are so
Society and Psyche
Title | Society and Psyche PDF eBook |
Author | Kanakis Leledakis |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 179 |
Release | 2020-08-25 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 100032379X |
Providing interpretations and drawing critically from classical and modern social theory, post-structuralism, and psychoanalytic theory, this original study offers an alternative way of thinking about the social and the individual. It offers critical analyses of, among others, Marx, Giddens, Bourdieu, Derrida, Laclau and Mouffe, Castoriadis, Freud and modern psychoanalytic theorists, and considers their roles in advancing our present-day conceptualization of the social and the self. In theorizing that behaviour is both socially determined and autonomous, it avoids the impasses of either individualist or structuralist approaches.
Psychoanalysis and Social Theory
Title | Psychoanalysis and Social Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Craib |
Publisher | Univ of Massachusetts Press |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780870237027 |
Craib clearly demonstrates the need for the integration of psychoanalytic and sociological theory. His arguments incorporate traditional Freudian theory, object relations approaches, and recent feminist contributions to psychoanalytic thought. The author also analysis the views of Christopher Badcock and Herbert Marcuse, Talcott Parsons and Erik Erikson, Jurgen Habermas and Christopher Lasch, Jacques Lacan, and D.W. Winnicot, along with feminist approaches to Freud, from the perspective of Juliet Mitchell and Nancy Chodorow.
The Social Edges of Psychoanalysis
Title | The Social Edges of Psychoanalysis PDF eBook |
Author | Neil J. Smelser |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 314 |
Release | 2023-04-28 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0520921372 |
For several decades the writings of sociologist Neil J. Smelser have won him a vast and admiring audience across several disciplines. Best known for his work on social movements, economic sociology, and British social history, Smelser's psychoanalytic writings are less familiar to his readers. In fact, many people are completely unaware of Smelser's formal psychoanalytic training and ongoing counseling practice. With the publication of The Social Edges of Psychoanalysis, Smelser's thought-provoking essays on psychoanalytic concepts are finally brought together in one book. Psychoanalytic theory has had an ambivalent relationship with sociology, and these essays explore that ambivalence, providing arguments about how and why psychoanalytic approaches can deepen the sociological perspective. One of Smelser's main tenets is that human social behavior always contains both social-structural and social-psychological elements, and that psychoanalytic theory can bridge these two dimensions of human social life. Many of the issues Smelser addresses—including interdisciplinarity, the macro-micro link in research, masculinity and violence, and affirmative action—have generated considerable scholarly interest. This collection paves the way for further articulation of the relationship between sociology and psychoanalysis at a time when many sociologists are looking for interdisciplinary links in their work. Presented with clarity and grace, and free of the murkiness often found in both sociological and psychoanalytic writing, Smelser's new book will excite reflection and research on the less visible dynamics of social existence.
Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition
Title | Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Elliott |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2019-04-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0429754841 |
Originally published in 1999 Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition is a benchmark critique of Freudian theory in which a dialogue between the Frankfurt School, the Lacanian tradition and post-Lacanian developments in critical and feminist theory is developed. Considering afresh the relations between self and society, Elliot argues for the importance of imagination and the unconscious in understanding issues about the self and self-identity, ideology and power, sexual difference and gender.