Social theory since Freud : traversing social imaginaries / / Anthony Elliott

• Autore: Elliott Anthony
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (194 p.)
• Disciplina: 150.19/5
• Soggetto topico: Social sciences and psychoanalysis - History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [170]-178) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 theory ; Pretext: 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 ; Primary 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 ; ConclusionPretext: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: In 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Social theory since Freud
• ISBN: 1-134-48667-7; 1-134-48668-5; 1-280-17503-6; 0-203-49606-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783843803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II