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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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