Jacques Lacan and American Sociology

Be Wary of the Image
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-19728-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 97 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 152 g

Reihe: The Palgrave Lacan Series

In this Palgrave Pivot, Duane Rousselle aims to disrupt the hold that pragmatist ideology has had over American sociology by demonstrating that the social bond has always been founded upon a fundamental and primordial bankruptcy. Using the Lacanian theory of “capitalist discourse,” Rousselle demonstrates that most of early American sociology suffered from an inadequate account of the “symbolic” within the mental and social lives of the individual subject. The psychoanalytic aspect of the social bond remained theoretically undeveloped in the American context. Instead it is the “image,” a product of the imaginary, which takes charge over any symbolic function. This intervention into pragmatic sociology seeks to recover the tradition of “grand theory” by bringing psychoanalytical and sociological discourse into fruitful communication with one another.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rousselle, Duane

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Geschichte der Soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: On NamesFreud's Proper NameFrom Proper Name to Name as PropChapter 3: Perverse AmericaAmerican WisdomPerverse Discourse and Capitalism Chapter 4: Early American SociologyGeorge Herbert MeadCharles Horton Cooley & Erving Goffman Chapter 5: On StrangersTwo Strangers: Georg Simmel & Ibn KhaldunGeorg SimmelIbn KhaldunChapter 6: Ways ForwardAlain Badiou's ChoiceParsing Talcott Parsons

Über Autor(innen)

Duane Rousselle is Visiting Professor of Sociology at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, USA. He is the author of Lacanian Realism: Clinical and Political Psychoanalysis and Post-Anarchism: A Reader. He maintains a private practice in Lacanian psychoanalysis.