The Self Between: From Freud to the New Social Psychology of France
After the disappointing events of the 1960s, including the loss of Algeria, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the American war in the former French colony of Indo-China, people in France began to look seriously to Freudianism in the transformed version of Jacques Lacan, for a new way of understanding human relations and the relations between human beings and society. The movement in France is not specifically psychoanalytic but developed against such a background. Psychoanalytic thought acquired the kind of centrality in French intellectual life once associated with existentialism and Marxism and later with structuralism—a centrality it probably never possessed in the United States, even at the peak of its popularity. The movement was a reassessment and rethinking of Freud’s thought and influence, and it iwa a movement that was almost unknown to the American public.

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The Self Between: From Freud to the New Social Psychology of France
After the disappointing events of the 1960s, including the loss of Algeria, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the American war in the former French colony of Indo-China, people in France began to look seriously to Freudianism in the transformed version of Jacques Lacan, for a new way of understanding human relations and the relations between human beings and society. The movement in France is not specifically psychoanalytic but developed against such a background. Psychoanalytic thought acquired the kind of centrality in French intellectual life once associated with existentialism and Marxism and later with structuralism—a centrality it probably never possessed in the United States, even at the peak of its popularity. The movement was a reassessment and rethinking of Freud’s thought and influence, and it iwa a movement that was almost unknown to the American public.

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The Self Between: From Freud to the New Social Psychology of France

The Self Between: From Freud to the New Social Psychology of France

by Eugene Webb
The Self Between: From Freud to the New Social Psychology of France

The Self Between: From Freud to the New Social Psychology of France

by Eugene Webb

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After the disappointing events of the 1960s, including the loss of Algeria, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the American war in the former French colony of Indo-China, people in France began to look seriously to Freudianism in the transformed version of Jacques Lacan, for a new way of understanding human relations and the relations between human beings and society. The movement in France is not specifically psychoanalytic but developed against such a background. Psychoanalytic thought acquired the kind of centrality in French intellectual life once associated with existentialism and Marxism and later with structuralism—a centrality it probably never possessed in the United States, even at the peak of its popularity. The movement was a reassessment and rethinking of Freud’s thought and influence, and it iwa a movement that was almost unknown to the American public.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780295805306
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication date: 12/01/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 272
File size: 1 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Eugene Webb is professor emeritus in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Chapter 1 The Cultural Situation of Psychoanalytic Thought in France 3

Chapter 2 French Critiques of Freud 26

Francois Roustang 28

Marie Balmary 46

Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen 68

Chapter 3 Rene Girard and the Psychology of Mimetic Desire 87

Chapter 4 Jean-Michel Oughourlian and the Psychology of the Interdividual 120

Chapter 5 The Social and Political Dimension in the Girardian School 152

Chapter 6 Psychology and Transcendence: Beyond the Interdividual 174

Rene Girard on True and False Transcendence 175

Marie Balmary and the Knife of Differentiation 193

Chapter 7 From Psychology to Philosophy of Consciousness 208

Bibliography 249

Index 261

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