This confrontational contribution to discourse analysis is also a
critique of contemporary psychological abstractions, as well as a
reassessment of the radical opposition between psychology and
psychoanalysis, an original introduction to the perspective of the
French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, and an attempt to bridge the
gap between discourse-analytical debates in social psychology and
the social-theoretical extensions of discourse theory. Exploring
the oral teachings and written works of Lacan, David Pavon Cuellar
gathers a number of relevant key concepts with the aim of applying
them to social theory and particularly to discourse analysis in
social psychology. With this in view, the author provides a precise
definition and a detailed explanation of each of the Lacanian
concepts. He also gives an appreciation of their theoretical
pertinence and practical usefulness, as well as an illustration of
their use to analyze a concrete discourse, in this case a fragment
of an interview obtained by the author from the Mexican underground
Popular RevolutionaryForces (EPR).Throughout the book, Lacanian
concepts are compared to their counterparts in psychology.
Meaningless signifiers are compared to meaningful information,
literal discourses to mental cognitions, unconscious
representatives to conscious representations, and so on. Such a
comparison reveals insuperable incompatibilities between the two
series of concepts. The author shows that Lacan s psychoanalytical
terminology can neither be translated nor assimilated to the terms
of current psychology.In current psychology, there is no room for
Lacan. So, before applying the Lacanian concepts, it is necessary
to make room for them. This is a major purpose of the book. For
this purpose, the way for the Lacanian concepts is cleared from
behavioral, cognitive and discursive psychological ideas. The way
is also cleared from other extra-psychological rival notions, which
are fighting or could fight for the ground of discourse analysis in
social psychology. Among the notions in actual or potential
competition with Lacanian concepts, the book deals with those
proposed by semiology, Marxism, phenomenology, constructionism,
deconstruction, and hermeneutics. Taking a stand on those
theoretical positions, each chapter includes long discussions about
influential ideas of classical authors (specifically Barthes,
Bakhtin, Althusser, Politzer, Wittgenstein, Berger and Luckmann,
Derrida, and Ricoeur). In these discussions, there is a permanent
recourse, in the body of the text, to the arguments of Lacan and
Lacanians (such as Miller, Milner, Soler, and i ek). At the same
time, in the footnotes, there is a systematic reappraisal and
reinterpretation of debates and pieces of research work in social
psychology, especially in a discursive and critical domain that has
incorporated elements of psychoanalytic theory (e.g. Billig,
Parker, Frosh, and Hook, among others)."
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