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Freud and the Institution of Psychoanalytic Knowledge (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Freud and the Institution of Psychoanalytic Knowledge (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
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How did psychoanalytic knowledge attain a dual status both as
common sense about the "inner life" among the educated and as
seemingly indispensable psychological expertise during the first
half of the twentieth century? Combining approaches from literary
studies and historical sociology, this book provides a
groundbreaking cultural history of the strategies Freud employed in
his writings and career to orchestrate public recognition of
psychoanalyis and to shape its institutional identity.
The author argues that a central element of Freud's
institutionalization project was his theoretical appropriation of
Greek tragedy. He derived cultural authority and legitimacy for
psychoanalysis by adopting the generic conventions and "universal"
relevance of Sophoclean tragedy, as well as the prestige of
classical education, in his elaboration of the Oedipus complex. As
the author shows, Lacanian psychoanalysis has followed Freud's lead
in purveying an ahistorical reading of Sophocles' Oedipus plays to
authorize its reimagining of the Oedipal subject.
The cultural salience of psychoanalytic knowledge also emerged in
the contexts of the social prominence of professionalism and the
academic consolidation of the social science disciplines at the
turn of the century. Through a detailed examination of Freud's
writings on culture, psychoanalytic technique, and the history of
the psychoanalytic movement, the book delineates his attempts to
establish psychoanalysis both as a profession and as an
epistemologically essential master discipline by competing directly
with research in philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and academic
psychology.
In the current controversy over Freud's legacy, the author offers a
critical assessment of the institutional opportunities and
constraints that have conditioned the cultural fate of
psychoanalytic knowledge in the twentieth century.
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