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* Offers a practical overview of 28 crucial concepts in Marxist
theory as developed and integrated by Jacques Lacan. * Opens up new
possibilities of discourse within the academic field for
considering Marxist economic, philosophical, epistemological,
political and sociological concepts within the context of Lacan's
readings. * Demonstrates the importance of Marxist concepts to
Lacanian psychoanalytic practice. * Brings together a broad range
of international contributors on the cutting edge of researching
Marxist / Lacanian encounters. * Will appeal to psychoanalysts as
well as academics and researchers in a broad range of fields.
* Offers a practical overview of 28 crucial concepts in Marxist
theory as developed and integrated by Jacques Lacan. * Opens up new
possibilities of discourse within the academic field for
considering Marxist economic, philosophical, epistemological,
political and sociological concepts within the context of Lacan's
readings. * Demonstrates the importance of Marxist concepts to
Lacanian psychoanalytic practice. * Brings together a broad range
of international contributors on the cutting edge of researching
Marxist / Lacanian encounters. * Will appeal to psychoanalysts as
well as academics and researchers in a broad range of fields.
The methods developed by Freud and Marx have enabled a range of
scholars to critically reflect upon the ideological underpinnings
of modern and now postmodern or hypermodern western societies. In
this intriguing book, the discipline of psychology itself is
screened through the twin dynamics of Marxism and psychoanalysis.
David Pavon-Cuellar asks to what extent the terms, concerns and
goals of psychology reflect, in fact, the dominant bourgeois
ideology that has allowed it to flourish. The book charts a gradual
psychologization within society and culture dating from the
nineteenth century, and examines how the tacit ideals within
mainstream psychology - creating good citizens or productive
workers - sit uneasily against Marx and Freud's ambitions of
revealing fault-lines and contradictions within individualist and
consumer-oriented structures. The positivist aspiration of
psychology to become a natural science has been the source of
extensive debate, critical voices asserting the social and cultural
contexts through which the human mind and behaviour should be
understood. This challenging new book provides another voice that,
in addressing two of the most influential intellectual traditions
of the past 150 years, widens the debate still further to examine
the foundations of psychology.
The methods developed by Freud and Marx have enabled a range of
scholars to critically reflect upon the ideological underpinnings
of modern and now postmodern or hypermodern western societies. In
this intriguing book, the discipline of psychology itself is
screened through the twin dynamics of Marxism and psychoanalysis.
David Pavon-Cuellar asks to what extent the terms, concerns and
goals of psychology reflect, in fact, the dominant bourgeois
ideology that has allowed it to flourish. The book charts a gradual
psychologization within society and culture dating from the
nineteenth century, and examines how the tacit ideals within
mainstream psychology - creating good citizens or productive
workers - sit uneasily against Marx and Freud's ambitions of
revealing fault-lines and contradictions within individualist and
consumer-oriented structures. The positivist aspiration of
psychology to become a natural science has been the source of
extensive debate, critical voices asserting the social and cultural
contexts through which the human mind and behaviour should be
understood. This challenging new book provides another voice that,
in addressing two of the most influential intellectual traditions
of the past 150 years, widens the debate still further to examine
the foundations of psychology.
Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual
Indeterminacy is an introduction to the emerging field of Lacanian
Discourse Analysis. It includes key papers that lay the foundations
for this research, and worked examples from analysts working with a
range of different texts. The editors Ian Parker and David
Pavon-Cuellar begin with an introduction which reviews the key
themes in discourse analysis and the problems faced by researchers
in that field of work including an overview of the development of
discourse analysis in different disciplines (psychology, sociology,
cultural studies and political and social theory). They also set
out the conceptual and methodological principles of Lacan's work
insofar as it applies to the field of discourse. Ian Parker and
David Pavon-Cuellar have divided the book into three main sections.
The first section comprises previously published papers, some not
yet available in English, which set out the foundations for
'Lacanian Discourse Analysis'. The chapters establish the first
lines of research, and illustrate how Lacanian psychoanalysis is
transformed into a distinctive approach to interpreting text when
it is taken out of the clinical domain. The second and third parts
of the book comprise commissioned papers in which leading
researchers from across the social sciences, from the
English-speaking world and from continental Europe and Latin
America, show how Lacanian Discourse Analysis works in practice.
Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual
Indeterminacy is intended to be a definitive volume bringing
together writing from the leaders in the field of Lacanian
Discourse Analysis working in the English-speaking world and in
countries where Lacanian psychoanalysis is part of mainstream
clinical practice and social theory. It will be of particular
interest to psychoanalysts of different traditions, to
post-graduate and undergraduate researchers in psycho-social
studies, cultural studies, sociology and social anthropology.
This striking Lacanian contribution to discourse analysis is also a
critique of contemporary psychological abstraction, as well as a
reassessment of the radical opposition between psychology and
psychoanalysis. This original introduction to Lacans work bridges
the gap between discourse-analytical debates in social psychology
and the social-theoreti
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)."
Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual
Indeterminacy is an introduction to the emerging field of Lacanian
Discourse Analysis. It includes key papers that lay the foundations
for this research, and worked examples from analysts working with a
range of different texts. The editors Ian Parker and David
Pavon-Cuellar begin with an introduction which reviews the key
themes in discourse analysis and the problems faced by researchers
in that field of work including an overview of the development of
discourse analysis in different disciplines (psychology, sociology,
cultural studies and political and social theory). They also set
out the conceptual and methodological principles of Lacan's work
insofar as it applies to the field of discourse. Ian Parker and
David Pavon-Cuellar have divided the book into three main sections.
The first section comprises previously published papers, some not
yet available in English, which set out the foundations for
'Lacanian Discourse Analysis'. The chapters establish the first
lines of research, and illustrate how Lacanian psychoanalysis is
transformed into a distinctive approach to interpreting text when
it is taken out of the clinical domain. The second and third parts
of the book comprise commissioned papers in which leading
researchers from across the social sciences, from the
English-speaking world and from continental Europe and Latin
America, show how Lacanian Discourse Analysis works in practice.
Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual
Indeterminacy is intended to be a definitive volume bringing
together writing from the leaders in the field of Lacanian
Discourse Analysis working in the English-speaking world and in
countries where Lacanian psychoanalysis is part of mainstream
clinical practice and social theory. It will be of particular
interest to psychoanalysts of different traditions, to
post-graduate and undergraduate researchers in psycho-social
studies, cultural studies, sociology and social anthropology.
What is revolutionary about psychoanalysis, and why should those of
us concerned with political praxis take it seriously? This
manifesto is an argument for connecting social transformation with
personal liberation, showing that the two aspects of profound
change can be intimately linked together using psychoanalysis. This
manifesto explores what lies beyond us, what we keep repeating,
what pushes and pulls us to stay the same and to change, and how
those phenomena are transferred into clinical space. This book is
not uncritical of psychoanalysis, and transforms it so that
liberation movements can transform the world. With a preface by
Suryia Nayak.
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