Jacques Lacan And American Sociology

Author : Duane Rousselle
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030197263
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jacques Lacan and American Sociology written by Duane Rousselle and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Palgrave Pivot, Duane Rousselle aims to disrupt the hold that pragmatist ideology has had over American sociology by demonstrating that the social bond has always been founded upon a fundamental and primordial bankruptcy. Using the Lacanian theory of “capitalist discourse,” Rousselle demonstrates that most of early American sociology suffered from an inadequate account of the “symbolic” within the mental and social lives of the individual subject. The psychoanalytic aspect of the social bond remained theoretically undeveloped in the American context. Instead it is the “image,” a product of the imaginary, which takes charge over any symbolic function. This intervention into pragmatic sociology seeks to recover the tradition of “grand theory” by bringing psychoanalytical and sociological discourse into fruitful communication with one another.

Author : Philip Manning
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745669352
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freud and American Sociology written by Philip Manning and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Freud’s impact on social science – and indeed 20th century social thought – has been extraordinary, his impact on American sociology has been left relatively unexplored. This ground-breaking book aims to fill this knowledge gap. By examining the work of pioneers such as G.H.Mead, Cooley, Parsons and Goffman, as well as a range of key contemporary thinkers, it provides an accurate history of the role Freud and psychoanalysis played in the development of American social theory. Despite the often reluctant, and frequently resistant, nature of this encounter, the book also draws attention to the abiding potential of fusing psychoanalytic and sociological thinking. Freud and American Sociology represents an original and compelling contribution to scholarly debate. At the same time, the clarity with which Manning develops his comprehensive account means that the book is also highly suitable for adoption on a range of upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses, including sociology, social theory, social psychology, and related disciiplines.

Author : Duane Rousselle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367495893
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Sexuality and Subjectivity written by Duane Rousselle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a concise yet comprehensive introduction to gender theory, this thought-provoking new book aims to make an intervention into the contemporary American paradigm of thinking gender and sexuality and offers a powerful challenge to the paradigm of social constructionism. Within each gender paradigm there are unacknowledged truths. The controversial claim of this book is that queer theory and intersectionality - and, more broadly, the social constructionist paradigm - have reached a limit. Indeed, it is possible that they are becoming regressive political gestures. However, there are possibilities of moving forward in this new area of transformation and Rousselle claims that a new logic of gender invention is opening up a new paradigm of thought. Part of the popular Routledge Focus on Mental Health series, this book will be of immense value to students and teachers who aim to understand in a basic way some of the various main paradigms, theories, and concepts within gender and sexuality studies. It will also be an important attempt to think beyond those paradigms and theories.

Author : Jean-Michel Rabate
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lacan in America written by Jean-Michel Rabate and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2000-09-17 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The clinical application of Lacanian discourse, though warmly received elsewhere, has gotten a cold shoulder in the English-speaking world. This collection of essays is aimed at dispelling the idea that Lacan is a theorist unintelligible outside the context of the French language and culture. They address the vitality of Lacanian thought and trace its impact on disciplines as diverse as mathematics and gay and lesbian studies. The 18 contributors are psychoanalysts and academics in comparative literature, art history, women's studies, philosophy, and English, from France and North America. Topics include a regressive sexual science and a "postmodern condition," technological mediation through seduction and resistance, the partisan issues beneath some of the resistances met by Lacanian discourse, and Lacan's revelations as responses to Freudian riddles. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Lynn Chancer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137304588
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis written by Lynn Chancer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Sheldon George
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000407500
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lacan and Race written by Sheldon George and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume draws upon Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to examine the conscious and unconscious forces underlying race as a social formation, conceptualizing race, racial identity, and racism in ways that go beyond traditional modes of psychoanalytic thought. Featuring contributions by Lacanian scholars from diverse geographical and disciplinary contexts, chapters span a wide breadth of topics, including white nationalism and contemporary debates over confederate monuments; emergent theories of race rooted in Afropessimism and postcolonialism; analyses of racism in apartheid and American slavery; clinical reflections on Latinx and other racialized patients; and applications of Lacan’s concepts of the lamella, drive and sexuation to processes of racialization. The collection both reorients readers’ understandings of race through its deployment of Lacanian theory and redefines the Lacanian subject through its theorizing of subjectivity in relation to race, racism and racial identification. Lacan and Race will be a definitive text for psychoanalytic theorists and contemporary scholars of race, appealing to readers across the fields of psychology, cultural studies, humanities, politics, and sociology.

Author : Antonio Viego
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822390612
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Subjects written by Antonio Viego and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead Subjects is an impassioned call for scholars in critical race and ethnic studies to engage with Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. Antonio Viego argues that Lacanian theory has the potential to begin rectifying the deeply flawed way that ethnic and racialized subjects have been conceptualized in North America since the mid-twentieth century. Viego contends that the accounts of human subjectivity that dominate the humanities and social sciences and influence U.S. legal thought derive from American ego psychology. Examining ego psychology in the United States during its formative years following World War II, Viego shows how its distinctly American misinterpretation of Freudian theory was driven by a faith in the possibility of rendering the human subject whole, complete, and transparent. Viego traces how this theory of the subject gained traction in the United States, passing into most forms of North American psychology, law, civil rights discourse, ethnic studies, and the broader culture. Viego argues that the repeated themes of wholeness, completeness, and transparency with respect to ethnic and racialized subjectivity are fundamentally problematic as these themes ultimately lend themselves to the project of managing and controlling ethnic and racialized subjects by positing them as fully knowable, calculable sums: as dead subjects. He asserts that the refusal of critical race and ethnic studies scholars to read ethnic and racialized subjects in a Lacanian framework—as divided subjects, split in language—contributes to a racist discourse. Focusing on theoretical, historical, and literary work in Latino studies, he mines the implicit connection between Latino studies’ theory of the “border subject” and Lacan’s theory of the “barred subject” in language to argue that Latino studies is poised to craft a critical multiculturalist, anti-racist Lacanian account of subjectivity while adding historical texture and specificity to Lacanian theory.

Author : Michael P. Clark
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317909046
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jacques Lacan (Volume II) (RLE: Lacan) written by Michael P. Clark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography in two volumes, originally published in 1988, lists and describes works by and about Jacques Lacan published in French, English, and seven other languages including Japanese and Russian. It incorporates and corrects where necessary all information from earlier published bibliographies of Lacan’s work. Also included as background works are books and essays that discuss Lacan in the course of a more general study, as well as all relevant items in various bibliographic sources from many fields.

Author : Dominik Finkelde
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350328944
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Žižek Responds! written by Dominik Finkelde and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responses to the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek have been, like Žižek himself, extreme. Critics have accused him of charlatanism on the one hand, while others have lauded his genius, especially as a public intellectual, on the other. This makes it difficult to find any kind of nuanced or interesting critical appraisal of his work. At its best Žižek's work provides a new foundation of dialectical philosophy, beyond the glitz of stardom or oversimplified sinister disdain. Žižek Responds! combines philosophers and theorists engaging with Žižek's philosophy in order to explore its unnoticed implications, its conceptual problems, or its unrealized potential. With detailed and lively responses from Žižek himself, this book offers an unique insight into how this thinker might explain, clarify and hone some of his most controversial and misunderstood ideas. At once an introduction to Žižek's most important concepts and a rare and novel insight into his thoughts on the criticisms of his work, this is indispensible reading for both Žižekians and their critics.

Author : Sheldon George
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000407543
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lacan and Race written by Sheldon George and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume draws upon Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to examine the conscious and unconscious forces underlying race as a social formation, conceptualizing race, racial identity, and racism in ways that go beyond traditional modes of psychoanalytic thought. Featuring contributions by Lacanian scholars from diverse geographical and disciplinary contexts, chapters span a wide breadth of topics, including white nationalism and contemporary debates over confederate monuments; emergent theories of race rooted in Afropessimism and postcolonialism; analyses of racism in apartheid and American slavery; clinical reflections on Latinx and other racialized patients; and applications of Lacan’s concepts of the lamella, drive and sexuation to processes of racialization. The collection both reorients readers’ understandings of race through its deployment of Lacanian theory and redefines the Lacanian subject through its theorizing of subjectivity in relation to race, racism and racial identification. Lacan and Race will be a definitive text for psychoanalytic theorists and contemporary scholars of race, appealing to readers across the fields of psychology, cultural studies, humanities, politics, and sociology.