Psychoanalytic Sociology: A New Theory of the Social Bond

Cover
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction to Psychoanalytic Sociology
	Lacanian Sociology: From “No!” to “Wow!”
	George Ritzer’s Sociological Supermarket
	Theory or Meta-Theory, Yes Please!
	Overview of Book
First Intervention: Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Qualitative Social Science Research Methodologies
	1960s: Eclipsing the Truth as Cause
	1970s: Scientific Phantasies and Psychoanalytic Delusions
	2020s: Validity and Transferability in Social Scientific Research
1 What Does It Mean to Be Strange?
	Foreigners and Singularities
	Supernumerary and Extimacy
	Commonality
	Quality and Quantity
Second Intervention: “You Are Not Having Milk!”
2 Uncanny Doubles
	Civilization State
	Religious Blindness
	The Uncanny
	The Double
	Rogue State
Third Intervention: “Come on Baby, Let’s Do the False Twist”
	Escaping the Meta-Verse
	ChatGPT, from a Window in Baltimore
	Addendum to a debate with Zizek: Five Theses
3 Estrangement or Public Strangeness?
	A Preliminary Model of Strangeness
	Estrangement
	Summary
4 Sociology in Crisis
	Foreign Agents
	Inventions
	The Secret Is Out
	Outsiders Within
Fourth Intervention: Psychoanalysis in Exile
	The Plague
	General War
5 Perverts, Monsters, and Postmodern Wisdom
	The Sociology of Knowledge
	Insiders and Outsiders
	The Postmodern Condition
	Particular Affirmations
	Capitalism Is the Alternative
6 Life and Death Strategies
	On Questions and Answers
	God Is a Chicken
	Life Strategies
Fifth Intervention: The Lonely Anti-Racist
7 General War
	Between Man and the World
	Plat-farm Capitalism
	Post-Structuralism and the Woman
Sixth Intervention: From Canned Laughter to Can’t Laughter
References
Index