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Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan & Freud's French Revolution

Sherry Turkle

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Description:Today--as for the past quarter of a century--French Freudianism can only mean the French Freud himself & his pervasive influence. It's inevitable, then, that sociologist Turkle would center her study on that formidable personage, despite a thoro familiarity with the complete range of literature buttressed by over a 100 interviews with activists & onlookers. She sets out to explain how it happened that an "antipsychoanalytic culture" like the French, where psychoanalysis was long associated with surrealism, could suddenly burst forth during the last decade in a psychoanalytic orgy. Her answer--inherently plausible but empirically thin--is that the experience of occupation & resistance during WWII, combined with the postwar social breakdowns in group identity & in the overburdened family created the ground for new concepts of the self. This ground yielded the "take-off" which followed the events of 5/1968, seen by her as a psychoanalytically inspired political revolt, If her political sociology is a bit too neat, however, her sociology of psychoanalysis is thoro & illuminating. By situating Lacan's antipsychiatry within the context of struggles in professional associations & medical institutions she's able to account in part for the political acceptance Lacan & his followers won so easily after May (he'd also been a longstanding critic of American society thru his attacks on American Freudianism). Her most welcome achievement lies in her relatively lucid exposition of the main lines of Lacan's linguistically-based psychoanalytic theory--he sees the self as socially constituted thru the symbolic structure of language--& its subversive potential. Complementing Mark Poster's 1977 Existential Marxism in Postwar France, this account finally makes Lacan & his world accessible to American readers.--Kirkus (edited)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan & Freud's French Revolution. To get started finding Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan & Freud's French Revolution, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Today--as for the past quarter of a century--French Freudianism can only mean the French Freud himself & his pervasive influence. It's inevitable, then, that sociologist Turkle would center her study on that formidable personage, despite a thoro familiarity with the complete range of literature buttressed by over a 100 interviews with activists & onlookers. She sets out to explain how it happened that an "antipsychoanalytic culture" like the French, where psychoanalysis was long associated with surrealism, could suddenly burst forth during the last decade in a psychoanalytic orgy. Her answer--inherently plausible but empirically thin--is that the experience of occupation & resistance during WWII, combined with the postwar social breakdowns in group identity & in the overburdened family created the ground for new concepts of the self. This ground yielded the "take-off" which followed the events of 5/1968, seen by her as a psychoanalytically inspired political revolt, If her political sociology is a bit too neat, however, her sociology of psychoanalysis is thoro & illuminating. By situating Lacan's antipsychiatry within the context of struggles in professional associations & medical institutions she's able to account in part for the political acceptance Lacan & his followers won so easily after May (he'd also been a longstanding critic of American society thru his attacks on American Freudianism). Her most welcome achievement lies in her relatively lucid exposition of the main lines of Lacan's linguistically-based psychoanalytic theory--he sees the self as socially constituted thru the symbolic structure of language--& its subversive potential. Complementing Mark Poster's 1977 Existential Marxism in Postwar France, this account finally makes Lacan & his world accessible to American readers.--Kirkus (edited)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan & Freud's French Revolution. To get started finding Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan & Freud's French Revolution, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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