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The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis

Diverse Perspectives on the Psychosocial

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Editors:
  1. Lynn Chancer

    1. Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA

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  2. John Andrews

    1. Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies in the Psychosocial (STIP)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Introduction: The Unhappy Divorce: From Marginalization to Revitalization

    1. Introduction: The Unhappy Divorce: From Marginalization to Revitalization

      • Lynn Chancer, John Andrews
      Pages 1-14

  3. The History of Sociology and Psychoanalysis in the United States: Diverse Perspectives on a Longstanding Relationship

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Opening/Closing the Sociological Mind to Psychoanalysis

      • George Cavalletto, Catherine Silver
      Pages 17-52

    3. Paranoid and Institutional Responses to Psychoanalysis among Early Sociologists: A Socio-Psychoanalytic Interpretation

      • Catherine B. Silver
      Pages 53-76

    4. The Unconscious in Cultural Dispute: On the Ethics of Psychosocial Discovery

      • Thomas DeGloma
      Pages 77-97

  6. The Psychosocial (Analytic) In Research and Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
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    2. The Psychoanalytic Underpinnings of Subject (Object) Selection

      1. Persona: Psychodynamic and Sociological Dimensions of a Project on US Activism and Political Violence
        • Gilda Zwerman
        Pages 239-265

    3. Applying Freud’s Ideas to Contemporary Culture

      1. Foreclosure from Freud to Fannie Mae
        • John Andrews
        Pages 269-283
      2. Melancholia and the Racial Order: A Psychosocial Analysis of America’s Enduring Racism
        • Jeffrey Prager
        Pages 284-316
      3. On the Melancholia of New Individualism
        • Anthony Elliott
        Pages 317-337
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A collection of 18 contributions by well-known scholars in and outside the US, The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis shows how sociology has much to gain from incorporating rather than overlooking or marginalizing psychoanalysis and psychosocial approaches to a wide range of social topics.

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“Editors Lynn Chancer and James Andrews have gathered together in The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis a notable group of scholars who have studied this rich legacy and who carry on the tradition today. … These essays and several others contain enriching insights for sociologists. … To overcome our collective resistance to individuality, we may not need the couch, but we definitely need this book.” (Christine Williams, Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 46 (1), January, 2017)

'The volume does deliver what it promises diverse perspectives on the psycho-social, and this is its biggest merit. As is indeed the fact that it triggers an awareness raising process, and this is also why it should not be ignored.' - LSE Review of Books

'The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis reboots the long-interrupted conversation between two historic disciplines. As happens when cultures are separated by continental drift and time, differences of language and outlook and discourse obtain. But this book creates a space, a salon, that kickstarts the colloquy between these natural interlocutors into a new momentum. What an exciting development!' - Muriel Dimen, New York University, USA

'This book offers a refurbished analytic tool-kit for thinking across and mapping the gaps between inner and outer, individual and group, psychic and social, repression and oppression. This volume's reach thus goes well beyond the two disciplines named in its title "Sociology" and "Psychoanalysis" to prompt and provoke multiple, vital interdisciplinary investigations of the ways gender, race, and class are built, lived, and contested.' - Ann Pellegrini, New York University, USA

Editors and Affiliations

  • Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA

    Lynn Chancer, John Andrews

About the editors

George Cavalletto, City University of New York, USA Nancy Chodorow, Webster University, USA Thomas DeGloma, City University of New York, USA Anthony Elliott, University of South Australia Tony Jefferson, Keele University, UK Philip Manning, Cleveland State University, USA Neil McLaughlin, McMasters University, Canada Siamak Movahedi, University of Massachusetts, USA Jeffrey Prager, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Catherine B. Silver, City University of New York, USA Vikash Singh, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA Neil J. Smelser, University of California, USA Arlene Stein, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA George Steinmetz, University of Michigan, USA Ilgin Yorukoglu, Fordham University, USA Gilda Zwerman Sate University of New York at Old Westbury, USA

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