Jacques Lacan and American Sociology - Be Wary of the Image

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: On Names.- Chapter 3: Perverse America.- Chapter 4: Early American Sociology.- Chapter 5: On Strangers.- Chapter 6: Ways Forward.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Duane Rousselle
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 04.06.2019
• EAN: 9783030197254
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3019725-4
• Seiten: 97
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 219 mm x 13 mm
• Gewicht: 240 g
• Illustration: IX, 97 p. 3 illus., 1 illus. in color.
• Serie: The Palgrave Lacan Series
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; C, Culture, Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Sociological Theory, biotechnology, Social Psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Behavioral Sciences and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology, Social groups: religious groups & communities, Psychosocial Studies, Historical Sociology