The unhappy divorce of sociology and psychoanalysis diverse perspectives on the psychosocial / edited by Lynn Chancer and John Andrews, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA.

Other author Chancer, Lynn S., 1954-
Other author Andrews, John, 1975-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Descriptionxxii, 427 pages ; 23 cm.
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SeriesStudies in the Psychosocial
Contents Machine generated contents note: -- Preface; Jeffrey Alexander -- Foreword; Craig Calhoun -- Introduction: The Unfulfilled Promise: From Marginalization to Revitalization; Lynn S. Chancer and John Andrews -- PART I: THE HISTORY OF SOCIOLOGY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS IN THE US: 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 Chodorow -- 6: The Narcissism of Minor Differences: The Status Anxiety & Disciplinary Intolerance between Sociology and Psychoanalysis; Siamak Mohavedi -- 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 S. Chancer -- 9. Bourdieu, Socio-analysis and Psycho-analysis; 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. 'Mourning becomes Eclectic': Racial Melancholia in an Age of Reconciliation; 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.
Abstract "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. "-- Provided by publisher.
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