Subject to Ourselves An Introduction to Freud Psychoanalysis and Social Theory 1st Edition by Anthony Elliott ISBN 9781594510076 1594510075
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ISBN 10:1594510075
ISBN 13: 9781594510076
Author: Anthony Elliott
Subject to Ourselves by Anthony Elliott is a compelling and accessible introduction to the complex terrain of psychoanalysis, particularly the thought of Sigmund Freud, and its intersection with social theory. Aimed at students and general readers alike, the book demystifies major psychoanalytic ideas while showing how these theories illuminate issues of identity, selfhood, culture, and power.
Elliott explores how the unconscious, sexuality, and early childhood experiences shape individual and collective behavior. He navigates through key Freudian concepts—such as repression, transference, the Oedipus complex, and the death drive—and examines how later thinkers like Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Jessica Benjamin, and Anthony Giddens have developed and critiqued Freudian ideas.
Table of contents:
Introduction to the First Edition: Fantasy, Moderm and Postmodem
1 The Ambivalence of Identity Between Modernity and Postmodernity
Self and desire in psychoanalysis Postmodernity: theory, identity, society
Modern hopes, modern fears Contemporary psychoanalysis, postmodern identities
Postmodernity and otherness, or respacing self and world
2 Contradictions of the Imagination Freud in the Stream of Modernity
Inner conflict, outer certainty
The seductions of psychoanalysis The psychologization of desire
Modernity, fantasy, denial
3 The Epic of Mastery Modernist Edges of Fantasy
Modernity as risk and reflexivity
The split subject of reflexivity
Fantasy and reflexive turbulence: an alternative view
Technoscience, power, mastery
Excursus: on Bosnia and the otherness of fantasy
Reflexivity and critical self-reflection
4 Postmodern Contexts, Plural Worlds The Possibilities and Pressures of Social Change
Postmodernity, space-time transformations, floating identities
Contemporary psychoanalytic dialogues
Experience, thinking, containment
Thinking and denial, postmodern
Social theory and postmodernity: Jameson and Baudrillard
Postmodern dimensions of processing and misrecognition: some implications
5 Postmodernity, or Modernity in Reverse Reflexive Scanning, Strangeness, Imagination
Reflexivity, scanning and postmodernity
Strangeness, shock and the matrix of containment
Sketches of postmodern containment
Scanning psychic space: the Walkman
Stretching culture: the O.J. Simpson trial
Living with catastrophic change
Afterword: the politics of imagination
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