Between the Psyche and the Social: Psychoanalytic Social Theory

by Steve Edwin (Editor), Tamsin Lorraine (Contribution by), Robyn Ferrell (Contribution by), Kelly Oliver SUNY, Stony Brook (Contribution by), Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks (Contribution by)

Overview

Between the Psyche and the Social is the first collection of its kind to offer original, interdisciplinary essays on questions of social subjectivity. Contributors engage the disciplines of feminism, psychoanalytic theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory, film theory, literary criticism, and philosophy to transform the psychoanalytic study of social oppression. The book considers such questions as, How can psychoanalysis and critical social theory engage and transform one another? How can the social dimensions of subjectivity be understood within the framework of a classic psychoanalytic theory that rejects the social domain that gives rise to subjectivity in the first place? Between the Psyche and the Social reclaims the contributions of psychoanalysis, feminism, queer theory, postcolonial, and political theories in order to change the parameters of the current debates on the social dimensions of subjectivity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780742513099
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	12/17/2001
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.78(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

Kelly Oliver is professor of philosophy and women's studies and chair of the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is the author of Subjectivity Without Subjects and Witnessing: Beyond Recognition. Steve Edwin is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is currently writing a dissertation on sexuality, race, and witnessing.

Table of Contents

	Psychic and Social Engagements	vii
Part I	Mapping the Social Psyche
1	Oedipus and the Anoedipal Transsexual	3
2	The Pleasures of the Slave	19
3	The Forgetting of Feeding: Luce Irigaray's Critique of Martin Heidegger	29
Part II	Social Oppression and Ethics of Love
4	Psychic Space and Social Melancholy	49
5	The Ethics of Travel	67
6	Queer Love	83
Part III	Social Agents of Trauma and Witnessing
7	Trauma, Cinema, Witnessing: Freud's Moses and Monotheism and Tracey Moffatt's Night Cries	99
8	"Impossible" Professions: Sarah Kofman, Witnessing, and the Social Depth of Trauma	123
Part IV	Feminism and the Social Psyche
9	The Psyche of Feminism (and the Institution of Women's Studies)	149
10	Beyond the Sexual Contract: Traversing the Fantasy of Fraternal Alliance	159
11	Paternal Perversion, the Imaginary Father, and the Promise of Love	185
12	A Dialectic of Eros and Freedom: Beauvoir and Marcuse	203
	Index	215
	About the Contributors	219

Editorial Reviews

Contributors from both philosophy and literary criticism highlight sites where psychoanalytic theory has staked claims in critical social theory. They illustrate the tension between the two fields in mapping the social psyche, social oppression and the ethics of love, social agents of trauma and witnessing, and feminism and the social psyche. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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