Psychoanalysis in social research : shifting theories and refraining concepts / Claudia Lapping.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lapping, Claudia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences and psychoanalysis.

Social sciences--Research.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The use of psychoanalytic ideas to explore social and political questions is not new. Freud began this work himself and social research has consistently drawn on his ideas. This makes perfect sense. Social and political theory must find ways to conceptualise the relation between human subjects and our social environment; and the distinctive and intense observation of individual psychical structuring afforded within clinical psychoanalysis has given rise to rich theoretical and methodological resources for doing just this. However, psychoanalytic concepts do not remain the same when they are

Contents:

Cover; Psychoanalysis in Social Research; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: reframing psychoanalytic concepts, or bricolage decomposed; 1. Melancholia: lost objects of national, ethnic, classed, gendered and sexual identities; Introduction: political discourse as a form of mourning?; Theorizations of mourning and melancholia: Freud, Klein and Butler; The melancholic production of social identities: repression, disavowal and foreclosure; Conclusion: loss and politics; 2. Overdetermination: the conceptualization of dreams and discourse

Introduction: the unconscious and discourseOverdetermination: symbolic relations and psychical force; Free association and the body of the analyst: affect or symbolization as the technical apparatus for interpretation?; The interpretation of dreams, the construction of symbolic associations and the processes of condensation and displacement; Empirical analyses of overdetermination within discourse theory; Conclusions: methodological continuities and discontinuities; 3.resistance: 'discourse' and 'psyche' and 'the compulsion to repeat'

Introduction: the opposition between 'discourse' and 'psyche'Freud's conceptualization of resistance and/as the compulsion to repeat; Resonances and discontinuities between Foucault's conception of resistance and Freud's compulsion to repeat; Reflexivity and the analysis of resistance within the interpretive process; Conclusion: resistances within resistances; 4. Signifying chains in academic practice: the appearance and disappearance of affect, politics and methodology; Introduction; Repression, disavowal and foreclosure: psychical relations in the field of discursivity

Conclusion: reflexivity, repression and disavowal5. From psychic defences to social defences: recontextualizing strategies and Klein's theory of ego development; Introduction: psychical aspects of recontextualization; Two aspects of Melanie Klein's theory: the development of the infant ego and the psychic defence mechanisms; From psychic defence to social defence: the recontextualization of Kleinian ideas into organizational analysis; The articulation of 'psychic defences' within Basil Bernstein's theory of recontextualization

Conclusion: contrasting recontextualizations and the unconscious of powerConclusion: troubling attachments; Notes; References; Index

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ISBN:

1-134-02005-8

1-283-10204-8

9786613102041

1-134-02006-6

0-203-88282-2

9780203882825

OCLC:

773564535