Crossing the Psycho-social Divide: Freud, Weber, Adorno and Elias (Rethinking Classical Sociology)

Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Figures......Page 10
Series Editor’s Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 16
A Discarded Tradition......Page 18
Interpretative Methods; Psycho-Social Paradigms......Page 21
PART 1 CIVILIZATION AND THE PSYCHE: OPPOSING PSYCHO-SOCIAL PARADIGMS IN SIGMUND FREUD’S WRITINGS ON CIVILIZATION......Page 26
1 Civilization as a Social Fact Imposed on the Psyche......Page 28
1. Translations of Social Economy into Psychic Economy......Page 29
2. The Internalization of External Coercion......Page 31
3. Social Class Distinctions......Page 32
4. Sociologistic and Psychologistic Formulations......Page 33
1. Clash of Psycho-Social Paradigms......Page 38
2. A Chronological Puzzle......Page 41
3. The Social Politics of Religious Antipathy......Page 43
1. Freud’s New Instinct Theory: from Biology to Sociology......Page 50
2. An Abstraction of a Higher Order......Page 51
3. Four Mental Processes Embodied in the Social......Page 53
PART 2 THE MEDIATION OF THE PSYCHE IN SOCIAL ACTION: PSYCHOLOGICAL CONCEPTUALIZATION IN MAX WEBER’S SOCIOLOGICAL WRITINGS......Page 58
4 “‘Objectivity’ in Social Science and Social Policy” and the Critique of Psychologism......Page 60
1. The Discipline of Psychology......Page 70
2. The Mediation of Psychology between Idea and Action......Page 74
3. Weber’s Model of Religiously Inspired Social Action in Terms of “Ascetic Protestantism as a Single Whole”......Page 77
4. The Different Ascetic Protestant Denominations (Model of Action)......Page 106
5. The Place of Psychology in Religiously Inspired Social Action......Page 109
1. Psychologism......Page 116
2. Physiological Psychology......Page 117
3. Verstehende Psychology......Page 123
7 Weber’s Use of Verstehende Psychology in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism......Page 132
PART 3 POWER AND THE PSYCHE: THEODOR ADORNO’S FIRST EXAMINATION OF THE AUTHORITARIAN PERSONALITY......Page 144
8 “The Psychological Technique of Martin Luther Thomas’ Radio Addresses”......Page 148
1. Latent Fascism......Page 150
2. Theoretical Motifs......Page 151
9 Retrospective: The Thomas Manuscript as Viewed by Adorno’s “Scientific Experiences of a European Scholar in America”......Page 168
1. The Primacy of Social Theory......Page 180
2. Theorizing by Elucidation and the Theoretical Listener......Page 182
3. Immanent Critique......Page 184
4. Method as a Reflection of the Dialectic of Reality......Page 186
PART 4 THE HISTORICAL PSYCHE: NORBERT ELIAS’S HISTORICAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY......Page 190
11 The Genesis of Elias’s Concept of the Historical Psyche......Page 194
1. The Ahistorical Psyche of Academic Psychology......Page 196
2. The Rejection of Elias’s First Insight into the Historical Psyche......Page 197
3. From Academic Psychology to “the Freudians”......Page 202
4. Psychogenetics......Page 206
5. A Reconceptualization of Psychology......Page 210
1. The Non-Psychological Parts of The Civilizing Process......Page 214
2. The Periodization of History......Page 216
13 The Decivilized Psyche, Fremdzwänge and the Constitution of Human Drives......Page 222
1. The Social Determination of the Psyche......Page 223
2. Fremdzwänge, the Pressures Which People Exert on One Another......Page 227
3. The Constitution of Human Drives......Page 232
14 The Civilizing of the Psyche, Social Competition and Social Fears......Page 246
1. Social Fears......Page 247
2. Violence......Page 250
3. Competition......Page 254
4. Social Competition and Historical Structures of Fear and Psychic Formation......Page 256
1. Five Psycho-Social Paradigms......Page 270
2. A Paradigm of Paradigms......Page 277
3. Final Lessons......Page 283
References......Page 286
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