The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis [electronic resource] : Diverse Perspectives on the Psychosocial /
Chancer, Lynn.author.
Andrews, John.author.
A collection of 18 contributions by well-known scholars in and outside the US, The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis shows how sociology has much to gain from incorporating rather than overlooking or marginalizing psychoanalysis and psychosocial approaches to a wide range of social topics.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: The Unhappy Divorce: From Marginalization to Revitalization; Part I: The History of Sociology and Psychoanalysis in the United States: Diverse Perspectives on a Longstanding Relationship; 1 Opening/Closing the Sociological Mind to Psychoanalysis; 2 Paranoid and Institutional Responses to Psychoanalysis among Early Sociologists: A Socio-Psychoanalytic Interpretation; 3 The Unconscious in Cultural Dispute: On the Ethics of Psychosocial Discovery
Part II: Are Psychosocial/Socioanalytic Syntheses Possible?4 Sustaining an Unlikely Marriage: Biographical, Theoretical, and Intellectual Notes; 5 Why Is It Easy to Be a Psychoanalyst and a Feminist, But Not a Psychoanalyst and a Social Scientist? Reflections of a Psychoanalytic Hybrid; 6 The Narcissism of Minor Differences: The Status Anxiety and Disciplinary Intolerance between Sociology and Psychoanalysis; Part III: The Unfulfilled Promise of Psychoanalysis and Sociological Theory; 7 Escapes from Freedom: Political Extremism, Conspiracy Theories, and the Sociology of Emotions
8 C. Wright Mills, Freud, and the Psychosocial Imagination9 From Sociology to Socioanalysis: Rethinking Bourdieu's Concepts of Habitus, Symbolic Capital, and Field along Psychoanalytic Lines; 10 The Ethnographic Spiral: Reflections on the Intersection of Life History and Ideal-Typical Analysis; Part IV: The Psychosocial (Analytic) In Research and Practice; A. The Psychoanalytic Underpinnings of Subject (Object) Selection; 11 Persona: Psychodynamic and Sociological Dimensions of a Project on US Activism and Political Violence; B. Applying Freud's Ideas to Contemporary Culture
12 Foreclosure from Freud to Fannie Mae13 Melancholia and the Racial Order: A Psychosocial Analysis of America's Enduring Racism; 14 On the Melancholia of New Individualism; 15 The Shame of Survival: Rethinking Trauma's Aftermath; C. Integrating Sociological Subfields and Psycho/Analytic Frameworks; 16 Racial Hatred and Racial Prejudice: A Difference that Makes a Difference; 17 Definitive Exclusions: The Social Fact and the Subjects of Neo-Liberalism; 18 ""One Has to Belong, Somehow"": Acts of Belonging at the Intersection of Ethnicity, Sexuality, and Citizenship; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A collection of 18 contributions by well-known scholars in and outside the US, The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis shows how sociology has much to gain from incorporating rather than overlooking or marginalizing psychoanalysis and psychosocial approaches to a wide range of social topics.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Psychoanalysis.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Sociology.
Community psychology.
Environmental psychology.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Psychoanalysis.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Social Theory.
Sociology, general.
Community and Environmental Psychology.