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Psychoanalysis in Social Research: Shifting theories and reframing concepts book cover

1st Edition

Psychoanalysis in Social Research Shifting theories and reframing concepts

By Claudia Lapping Copyright 2011
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge
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The use of psychoanalytic ideas to explore social and political questions is not new. Freud began this work himself and social research has consistently drawn on his ideas. This makes perfect sense. Social and political theory must find ways to conceptualise the relation between human subjects and our social environment; and the distinctive and intense observation of individual psychical... Read more

Introduction: Reframing Psychoanalytic Concepts, or Bricolage Decomposed  1. Melancholia: Lost Objects of National, Ethnic, Classed, Gendered and Sexual Identities  2. Overdetermination: The Conceptualization of Dreams and Discourse  3. Textures of Resistance: 'Discourse' and 'Psyche' and 'The Compulsion to Repeat'  4. Signifying Chains in Academic Practice: The Appearance and Disappearance of Affect, Politics and Methodology  5. From Psychic Defenses to Social Defenses: Recontextualising Strategies and Klein's Theory of Ego Development  Conclusion: Troubling Attachments

Biography

Claudia Lapping is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Education, University of London, where she teaches on the doctoral programme and on the MA Psychosocial Studies and Education. She is interested in the development of psychosocial methodologies and her research draws on sociological and psychoanalytic approaches to explore knowledge practices in higher education.

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