LEADER 04651oam 2200613I 450 001 9910451418603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-134-48668-5 010 $a1-280-17503-6 010 $a0-203-49606-X 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203496060 035 $a(CKB)1000000000253811 035 $a(EBL)182291 035 $a(OCoLC)253003293 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000247739 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11209019 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000247739 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10200669 035 $a(PQKB)10008906 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC182291 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL182291 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10162209 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL17503 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000253811 100 $a20180706d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSocial theory since Freud $etraversing social imaginaries /$fAnthony Elliott 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2004. 215 $a1 online resource (194 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-27164-9 311 $a0-415-27163-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [170]-178) and index. 327 $aFront 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 theory 327 $aPretext: 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 identification 327 $aPrimary 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 difference 327 $aConclusionPretext: 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; Index 330 $aIn 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 new 606 $aSocial sciences and psychoanalysis$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSocial sciences and psychoanalysis$xHistory. 676 $a150.19/5 700 $aElliott$b Anthony.$0222829 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451418603321 996 $aSocial theory since Freud$92144062 997 $aUNINA