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Psychoanalysis in social research : shifting theories and reframing concepts / Claudia Lapping.
Van Pelt Library BF175.4.S65 L37 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lapping, Claudia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences and psychoanalysis.
- Social sciences--Research.
- Social sciences.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Social Sciences.
- Medical Subjects:
- Psychoanalysis.
- Social Sciences.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 197 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Contents:
- 1 Melancholia: lost objects of national, ethnic, classed, gendered and sexual identities 14
- Introduction: political discourse as a form of mourning? 14
- Theorizations of mourning and melancholia; Freud, Klein and Butler 17
- The melancholic production of social identities: repression, disavowal and foreclosure 24
- Conclusion: loss and politics 39
- 2 Overdetermination: the conceptualization of dreams and discourse 42
- Introduction: the unconscious and discourse 42
- Overdetermination: symbolic relations and psychical force 44
- Free association and the body of the analyst: affect or symbolization as the technical apparatus for interpretation? 51
- The interpretation of dreams, the construction of symbolic associations and the processes of condensation and displacement 56
- Empirical analyses of overdetermination within discourse theory 63
- Conclusions: methodological continuities and discontinuities 71
- 3 Textures of resistance: 'discourse' and 'psyche' and 'the compulsion to repeat' 76
- Introduction: the opposition between 'discourse' and 'psyche' 76
- Freud's conceptualization of resistance and/as the compulsion to repeat 79
- Resonances and discontinuities between Foucault's conception of resistance and Freud's compulsion to repeat 83
- Reflexivity and the analysis of resistance within the interpretive process 98
- Conclusion: resistances within resistances 105
- 4 Signifying chains in academic practice: the appearance and disappearance of affect, politics and methodology 107
- Introduction 107
- Repression, disavowal and foreclosure: psychical relations in the field of discursivity 110
- Conclusion: reflexivity, repression and disavowal 137
- 5 From psychic defences to social defences: recontextualizing strategies and Klein's theory of ego development 140
- Introduction: psychical aspects of recontextualization 140
- Two aspects of Melanie Klein's theory: the development of the infant ego and the psychic defence mechanisms 144
- From psychic defence to social defence: the recontextualization of Kleinian ideas into organizational analysis 151
- The articulation of 'psychic defences' within Basil Bernstein's theory of recontextualization 161
- Conclusion: contrasting recontextualizations and the unconscious of power 170
- Conclusion: troubling attachments 173.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415479257
- 0415479258
- 9780203882825
- 0203882822
- OCLC:
- 515427100
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