Freud, Psychoanalysis, Social Theory
Subtitle: The Unfulfilled Promise (S U N Y Series in Social and Political Thought)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: February 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780791448427
Subjects: Psychology; Social sciences and psychoanalysis; Movements - Psychoanalysis; Sociology - Social Theory; General; 1856-1939; Freud, Sigmund,; Social sciences and psychoanal
Description: "Freud, Psychoanalysis, Social Theory explores the parallel decline of psychoanalysis which, as psychoanalysts themselves testify, has lost its position as a vital source for innovative cultural analysis and critique, and mainstream social science, which has for methodological reasons similarly abandoned larger interpretive goals.

Theory in all domains faces a central paradox: it is easier for societies to absorb and contain the multiple perspectives and disparate intentions of people acting in the context of different social locations than it is for theorists from any perspective to explain credibly how it happens. Weinstein uses the conflicts between and among the many competing visions of psychoanalytic theory to suggest how this paradox might yet be resolved."--BOOK JACKET.