Russell Jacoby defines social amnesia as society's repression of
remembrance - society's own past. In this book, Jacoby excavates
the critical and historical concepts that have fallen prey to the
dynamic of a society that strips them both of their historical and
critical content. Social Amnesia is an effort to remember what is
perpetually lost under the pressure of society. It is
simultaneously a critique of present practices and theories in
psychology. Jacoby's new self-evaluation has the same sharp edge as
the book itself, offering special insights into the evolution of
psychological theory during the past two decades.In his probing,
self-critical new introduction, Jacoby maintains that any serious
appraisal of psychology or sociology, or any discipline, must seek
to separate the political from the theoretical. He discusses how in
the years since Social Amnesia was first published society has
oscillated from extreme subjectivism to extreme objectivism, which
feed off each other and constitute two forms of social amnesia: a
forgetting of the past and a pseudo-historical consciousness.
Social Amnesia contains a forceful argument for "thinking against
the grain - an endeavor that remains as urgent as ever." It is an
important work for sociologists, psychologists, and psychoanalysts.
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