The Self Between From Freud to the New Social Psychology of France / Eugene Webb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webb, Eugene, 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis--Social aspects--France--History.

Psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalysis--France--History.

France--Intellectual life--20th century.

France.

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939--Influence.

Girard, Rene, 1923-2015--Influence.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

After the disappointing events of the 1960s, including the loss of Algeria, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the American war in the former French colony of Indo-China, people in France began to look seriously to Freudianism in the transformed version of Jacques Lacan, for a new way of understanding human relations and the relations between human beings and society. The movement in France is not specifically psychoanalytic but developed against such a background. Psychoanalytic thought acquired the kind of centrality in French intellectual life once associated with existentialism and Marxism and later with structuralism--a centrality it probably never possessed in the United States, even at the peak of its popularity. The movement was a reassessment and rethinking of Freud’s thought and influence, and it iwa a movement that was almost unknown to the American public.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: The Cultural Situation of Psychoanalytic Thought in France; Chapter 2: French Critiques of Freud; François Roustang; Marie Balmary; Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen; Chapter 3: René Girard and the Psychology of Mimetic Desire; Chapter 4: Jean-Michel Oughourlian and the Psychology of the Interdividual; Chapter 5: The Social and Political Dimension in the Girardian School; Chapter 6: Psychology and Transcendence: Beyond the Interdividual; René Girard on True and False Transcendence; Marie Balmary and the Knife of Differentiation

Chapter 7: From Psychology to Philosophy of ConsciousnessBibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-260) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295805306

0295805307

OCLC:

935254709