Exploring the Interplay of Edward Sapir s Anthropology and Lacanian - Culture and Subjectivity

This book reevaluates Edward Sapir's groundbreaking perspective on culture and personality alongside Jacques Lacan's theories, challenging traditional anthropological discourse.

List of contents

Prologue
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction: How to Fail Better?
Chapter 2: Theory on the Couch: Anthropology and Psychoanalysis, a Love at First Sigh(t)
Intersecting Paths: Freudian Anthropological Endeavors and Structuralist Engagement of Lacan and Lévi-Strauss
The Concept of "Culture" in Anthropology
The Birth of a Concept
Subjectivity in Anthropology - Culture and Personality Studies
Subjectivity "in the Field": Descriptive Use of Psychoanalytic Theory in Psychological Anthropology - Kardiner, Mead, Kluckhohn and Whitings
The Odd Couple: Methodological and Epistemological Dilemmas with "Culture" and "Personality" in Anthropology
The Illusory Dichotomy of "Culture-Personality": A Psychoanalytic Approach
The Unconscious and Freud's Legacy of the "Deceptive" Ego
Chapter 3: Culture and the Unconscious - Edward Sapir and Jacques Lacan: From Culture and Personality to the Subject of the Unconscious
Subjectivity in the Theory of Jacques Lacan
Pattern of Culture and Logic of the Signifier
The Grammar of the Unconscious - the Symbolic and the Subject
Edward Sapir: From the Subject`s History to the Subject of History
Culture and Subjectivity: Intersubjective Relations and the Intrasubjective Structure
Culture and Phantasm
Chapter 4: Anthropology, Knowledge, Truth
The "Sobject" of Anthropology
Desire and the Method
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Lenart Kodre

Product details

• Authors: Lenart Kodre, Lenart Kodre
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2025
• EAN: 9781666967227
• ISBN: 978-1-66696-722-7
• No. of pages: 212
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Social and cultural anthropology