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Social Theory Since Freud: Self and Society After Freud

By Anthony Elliott

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
9780415271639, 0415271630, 0415271649, 9780415271646, 9780203496060
LCC
BF175.4.S65 E455 2004
Open Library ID
OL22593661M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1063797 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
200\194
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In this compelling book, Anthony Elliott traces the rise of psychoanalysis from the Frankfurt School to postmodernism. Examining how pathbreaking theorists such as Adorno, Marcuse, Lacan and Lyotard have deployed psychoanalysis to politicise issues such as desire, sexuality, repression and identity, Elliott assesses the gains and losses arising from this appropriation of psychoanalysis in social theory and cultural studies.Moving from the impact of the Culture Wars and recent Freud-bashing to contemporary debates in social theory, feminism and postmodernism, Elliott argues for a new alliance between sociological and psychoanalytic perspectives.

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