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Title

The unhappy divorce of sociology and psychoanalysis : diverse perspectives on the psychosocial / edited by Lynn Chancer and John Andrews.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Chancer, Lynn S., 1954-
• Andrews, John, 1975-

Description

xxii, 427 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"Why does the field of sociology in the United States often overlook or marginalize psychoanalytic concepts like anxiety, defence mechanisms, and the unconscious dating back to Sigmund Freud? The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis shows that this was not always the case, and that the field of contemporary sociology can benefit from inclusion of psychoanalytic perspectives. It features twenty-one essays by well-known scholars in and outside the United States - including Nancy Chodorow, George Cavalletto and Catherine Silver, Jeffrey Prager, Neil Smelser and Gilda Zwerman, alongside junior scholars who are all working on how sociology, psychoanalysis, and the psychosocial interrelate. Beginning with a preface by Jeffrey Alexander and a foreword by Craig Calhoun, the articles consider the history of the relationship, ongoing debates, and the need for psychosocial analyses when studying racism, gender, immigration, class and the housing crisis, trauma and social movements (among other applied topics). The book makes a lively case for the significance of tapping into interdisciplinary approaches, including the psychosocial, if sociology is to offer cutting-edge research on a range of contemporary social issues requiring multi-dimensional insights. "--

Series Statement

Studies in the psychosocial

Uniform Title

Studies in the psychosocial

Subject

• Social psychology
• Sociology > Research
• Psychoanalysis
• PSYCHOLOGY / Applied Psychology
• PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Psychoanalysis
• PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
• Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)
• Social psychology
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies
• Social theory
• Social, group or collective psychology
• Society

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction: The Unfulfilled divorce: From Marginalization to Revitalization / Lynn S. Chancer and John Andrews -- PART I: THE HISTORY OF SOCIOLOGY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS IN THE UNITED STATES: DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES ON A LONGSTANDING RELATIONSHIP -- 1. Opening/Closing the Sociological Mind to Psychoanalysis / George Cavalletto and Catherine Silver -- 2. Paranoid and Institutional Responses to Psychoanalysis Among Early Sociologists: A Socio-psychoanalytic Interpretation / Catherine Silver -- 3. The Unconscious in Cultural Dispute: On the Ethics of Psychosocial Discovery / Thomas DeGloma -- PART II: ARE PSYCHOSOCIAL/SOCIOANALYTIC SYNTHESES POSSIBLE? -- 4. Sustaining an Unlikely Marriage: Biographical, Theoretical, and Intellectual Notes / Neil Smelser -- 5. Why is it Easy to be a Psychoanalyst and a Feminist, but not a Psychoanalyst and a Social Scientist? Reflections of a Psychoanalytic Hybrid / Nancy J.Chodorow --^
• 6: The Narcissism of Minor Differences: The Status Anxiety & Disciplinary Intolerance between Sociology and Psychoanalysis / Siamak Movahedi -- PART III: THE UNFULFILLED PROMISE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS AND SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY -- 7. Escapes from Freedom: Political Extremism, Conspiracy Theories and the Sociology of Emotions / Neil McLaughlin -- 8. C. Wright Mills, Freud and the Psychosocial Imagination / Lynn Chancer -- 9. From Sociology to socioanalysis: Rethinking Bourdieu's concepts of habitus, symbolic capital, and field along psychoanalytic lines / George Steinmetz -- 10. The Ethnographic Spiral: Reflections on the Intersection of Life history and Ideal-Typical Analysis / Philip Manning -- PART IV: THE PSYCHOSOCIAL(ANALYTIC) IN RESEARCH AND PRACTICE -- The Psychoanalytic Underpinnings of Subject (Object) Selection? -- 11. PERSONA: Psychodynamic and Sociological Dimensions of a Project on US Activism and Political Violence / Gilda Zwerman --^
• Applying Freud's Ideas to Contemporary Culture -- 12. Foreclosure from Freud to Fannie Mae / John Andrews -- 13. 'Melancholia and the Racial order: A psychosocial analysis of America's Enduring Racism / Jeffery Prager -- 14. On The Melancholia of New Individualism / Anthony Elliot -- 15. The Shame of Survival: Rethinking Trauma's Aftermath / Arlene Stein -- Integrating Sociological Subfields and Psycho/analytic Frameworks -- 16: Racial Hatred and Racial Prejudice: A Difference That Makes a Difference / Tony Jefferson -- 17. Definitive Exclusions: The Social Fact and the Subjects of Neo-Liberalism / Vikash Singh -- 18: 'One Has to Belong, Somehow': Acts of Belonging at the Intersection of Ethnicity, Sexuality, and Citizenship / Ilgin Yorukoglu.

ISBN

• 9781137304568 (hardback)
• 1137304561 (hardback)
• 9781137304575 (paperback)
• 113730457X (paperback)

LCCN

^^2014024392

OCLC

873725304

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library