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Jacques Lacan and American Sociology: Be Wary of the Image

Jacques Lacan and American Sociology: Be Wary of the Image

Rousselle, Duane

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Lacan

General PsychologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3030197255
ISBN13: 9783030197254
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Published: Jun 4 2019
Pages: 97
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

In this Palgrave Pivot, Duane Rousselle aims to disrupt the hold that pragmatist ideology has had over American sociology by demonstrating that the social bond has always been founded upon a fundamental and primordial bankruptcy. Using the Lacanian theory of capitalist discourse, Rousselle demonstrates that most of early American sociology suffered from an inadequate account of the symbolic within the mental and social lives of the individual subject. The psychoanalytic aspect of the social bond remained theoretically undeveloped in the American context. Instead it is the image, a product of the imaginary, which takes charge over any symbolic function. This intervention into pragmatic sociology seeks to recover the tradition of grand theory by bringing psychoanalytical and sociological discourse into fruitful communication with one another.

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