04647oam 2200613I 450 991078384380332120230207225133.01-134-48667-71-134-48668-51-280-17503-60-203-49606-X10.4324/9780203496060 (CKB)1000000000253811(EBL)182291(OCoLC)253003293(SSID)ssj0000247739(PQKBManifestationID)11209019(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000247739(PQKBWorkID)10200669(PQKB)10008906(MiAaPQ)EBC182291(Au-PeEL)EBL182291(CaPaEBR)ebr10162209(CaONFJC)MIL17503(EXLCZ)99100000000025381120180706d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSocial theory since Freud traversing social imaginaries /Anthony ElliottLondon ;New York :Routledge,2004.1 online resource (194 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-27164-9 0-415-27163-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [170]-178) and index.Front Cover; Social Theory Since Freud; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: imagination in the service of the new; Theories of imagination; The argument of this book; Pretext: you'll never dream the same dream twice; 1 Social theory since Freud: traversing social imaginaries; Freud and the interpretation of the social; The legacy of Freud; Psychopathologies of rationality: the Frankfurt School; Returning to Freud: Jacques Lacan; Lacanian and post-Lacanian contexts; Feminist psychoanalytic criticism; Psychoanalysis and postmodern theoryPretext: perplexing messages of the social2 Situating psychoanalysis in the social field; Trauma talk and recovered memory: toward a critique of antipsychological psychology; Opening and closing Freud: modern constructions, postmodern revisions; Pretext: subjectivity, signification and writing: Kristeva and theBarthes system; 3 The psychic constitution of the subject: imagination,identification, primary repression; Rethinking representation: fantasy, creation, imagination; Freud and his followers: on the concepts of repression and identificationPrimary repression and the loss of the thing: Kristeva's exploration of the imaginary fatherEnigmatic messages: Laplanche; Primary repression rethought: rolling identifications and representational wrappings of self and other; The significance of primary repression, and the politicization of identification; Pretext: on the adventures of difference; 4 Sexuality, complexity, anxiety: the encounter betweenpsychoanalysis, feminism and postmodernism; Feminism, post-structuralism and postmodernism; Sexual difference, or more of the same?; From ambivalence to inflexibility: the fear of differenceConclusionPretext: ethics, psychoanalysis and postmodernity; 5 Psychoanalysis at its limits: navigating the postmodern turn(with CHARLES SPEZZANO); Modernism and postmodernism: the alleged dichotomy; Three faces of postmodernism; Postmodern psychoanalysis: two recent views; The critique of 'inescapable fragmentation'; Criticisms of the postmodern collapse of signification; Postmodernity and psychoanalytic heterogeneity; Beyond hermeneutics and constructivism; 6 Social theory, psychoanalysis and the politics of postmodernity:Anthony Elliott talks with Sean Homer; Notes; References; IndexIn this compelling book, Anthony Elliott traces the rise of psychoanalysis from the Frankfurt School to postmodernism. Examining how pathbreaking theorists such as Adorno, Marcuse, Lacan and Lyotard have deployed psychoanalysis to politicise issues such as desire, sexuality, repression and identity, Elliott assesses the gains and losses arising from this appropriation of psychoanalysis in social theory and cultural studies.Moving from the impact of the Culture Wars and recent Freud-bashing to contemporary debates in social theory, feminism and postmodernism, Elliott argues for a newSocial sciences and psychoanalysisHistorySocial sciences and psychoanalysisHistory.150.19/5Elliott Anthony.222829MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783843803321Social theory since Freud3797631UNINA