Between the Psyche and the Social
Psychoanalytic Social Theory
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
1st Edition
Published on 20. December 2001
224 pages
978-0-7425-7148-8 (ISBN)
Description
Between the Psyche and the Social is the first collection of its kind to offer original, interdisciplinary essays on questions of social subjectivity. Contributors engage the disciplines of feminism, psychoanalytic theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory, film theory, literary criticism, and philosophy to transform the psychoanalytic study of social oppression. The book considers such questions as, How can psychoanalysis and critical social theory engage and transform one another? How can the social dimensions of subjectivity be understood within the framework of a classic psychoanalytic theory that rejects the social domain that gives rise to subjectivity in the first place?
Between the Psyche and the Social reclaims the contributions of psychoanalysis, feminism, queer theory, postcolonial, and political theories in order to change the parameters of the current debates on the social dimensions of subjectivity.
Between the Psyche and the Social reclaims the contributions of psychoanalysis, feminism, queer theory, postcolonial, and political theories in order to change the parameters of the current debates on the social dimensions of subjectivity.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-0-7425-7148-8 (9780742571488)
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Persons
Kelly Oliver is professor of philosophy and women's studies and chair of the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is the author of Subjectivity Without Subjects and Witnessing: Beyond Recognition. Steve Edwin is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is currently writing a dissertation on sexuality, race, and witnessing.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Psychic and Social Engagements
- Part I. Mapping the Social Psyche
- Chapter 1. Oedipus and the Anoedipal Transsexual
- Chapter 2. The Pleasures of the Slave
- Chapter 3. The Forgetting of Feeding: Luce Irigaray's Critique of Martin Heidegger
- Part II. Social Oppression and Ethics of Love
- Chapter 4. Psychic Space and Social Melancholy
- Chapter 5. The Ethics of Travel
- Chapter 6. Queer Love
- Part III. Social Agents of Trauma and Witnessing
- Chapter 7. Trauma, Cinema, Witnessing: Freud's Moses and Monotheism and Tracey Moffatt's Night Cries
- Chapter 8. "Impossible" Professions: Sarah Kofman, Witnessing, and the Social Depth of Trauma
- Part IV. Feminism and the Social Psyche
- Chapter 9. The Psyche of Feminism (and the Institution of Women's Studies)
- Chapter 10. Beyond the Sexual Contract: Traversing the Fantasy of Fraternal Alliance
- Chapter 11. Paternal Perversion, the Imaginary Father, and the Promise of Love
- Chapter 12. A Dialectic of Eros and Freedom: Beauvoir and Marcuse
- Index
- About the Contributors
