The Palgrave Handbook of Psychosocial Studies

Preface
Contents
About the Editors
Contributors
Part I: Introduction
	1 Handbook of Psychosocial Studies Introduction
		Formations of the Field
		Sites of Theory
		Sites of Practice
		Questions of Method
		References
Part II: Formations of the Field
	2 Freud´s ``Mourning and Melancholia´´
		Death and Loss
		Diseased Critical Agency
		Introjection and Incorporation
		Inability to Mourn
		Midmourning
		Dis/Identification
		Melancholy Race and Coloniality
		References
	3 Re-reading Riviere´s ``Womanliness as a Masquerade´´: Putting Sex and the (trans) Body Back into Question
		Introduction
		Politicizing the Heterosexual Masquerade: Contrasting Logics of Culture and the Signifier
		Beyond Riviere: Sexed Body as Trans Body
		A Moment of Concluding: Implications for Psychosocial Studies
		References
	4 ``Black Skin, White Masks´´ by Frantz Fanon
		Introduction
		Origins
		Key Concepts
			Psychoanalysis
			Phenomenology
			Hegelian Dialectics
		Conclusion
		References
	5 D.W. Winnicott: ``Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena´´
		Introduction
		Treading on People´s Corns?
		``This helps, but is it enough?´´
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		References
	6 Derrida´s ``Specters of Marx´´
		The End of History?
		With Any Death There Is Mourning
		Specters of Marx
		Vaguely Leftish?
		Reasons to Be Cheerful?
		Summary
		References
	7 Pierre Bourdieu´s ``Distinction and Beyond´´
		Introduction
		Distinction
		Capital
		Habitus
		Field
		Suffering
		Conclusion
		References
	8 Slavoj Zizek´s ``The Sublime Object of Ideology´´
		Introduction
			What the Text Does
			What the Text Says (Perhaps)
		References
	9 Rosi Braidotti´s ``Nomadic Subjects´´
		Introduction: The Nomadic-feminist
		Difference Is Just Not the Same
		Embodiment and Sexual Difference, and Difference, and Difference
		Troubling Oedipus, Still
		Conclusion: A Nomadic Couch?
		References
	10 Graham Dawson´s ``Soldier Heroes´´: An Overlooked Classic of Psychosocial Studies
		Introduction
		What is Soldier Heroes About?
		The Indian Rebellion and the Cultural Imaginary of Imperialism
		Dawson´s Rereading of Klein
		Some Possible Limitations
		Soldier Heroes, Cultural Studies, and Psychosocial Studies
		Conclusion
		References
Part III: Sites of Theory
	11 The Purpose of Psychosocial Studies
		The Established Academic Disciplines of Sociology and Psychology
		Sociology in the Context of Postwar Social Change
		The Contrary Development of Psychology
		Creating New Academic Fields: Three Examples
		Scrutiny and English Studies
		Cultural Studies
		Science and Technology Studies (STS)
		What Can Psychosocial Studies Learn from These Fields of Study?
		References
	12 Psychoanalysis as a Psycho-social Hyphen in History: Approaching Freud and Walter Benjamin
		The Psycho-Social Hyphen
		Psychoanalysis as a Psycho-Social Hyphen
		History, Memory, and the Psycho-Social Hyphen: Freud and Benjamin
		History and Memory in Drummonds Poetry
		Ontogeny, Phylogeny, and Trauma
		Trauma in History: A Commotion in the Psycho-Social Hyphen
		References
	13 Freedom, Resonance, Interaction
		Introduction
		Freedom: Erich Fromm and the Dialectic of Subjectivity and History
		Resonance: Hans Loewald and the Productive Tensions Between Inner and Outer Realities
		Interactions: Alfred Lorenzer and the Psychosocial Ambiguities of Repression
		Concluding Discussion
		References
	14 What Is Called ``Process Thought´´: A Transdisciplinary Process Ontology for Psychosocial Studies
		Introduction
		Ontology, Epistemology, and Ethics
		What Is Called ``Substance Thought´´? Flux and Endurance in Early Philosophy
		The Modern Re-entrenchment of Substance Thought in Scientific Materialism
		The Explicit Emergence of Process Thought in the Nineteenth Century and Its Ties to Modern Psychology
		Whitehead: Reality as Process
		What the Builders Had Discarded Becomes the New Cornerstone: Rethinking Experience as Atomic Actual Occasion
		The Deepening of Shallow Empiricism
		The Re-assertion of a New Species of Twentieth Century Substance Thought
		Summary
		References
	15 Psychosocial Studies and Psychiatry
		Introduction
		The Importance of History
		The New School of Special Medicine
			Moral Treatment: Psychological Treatment and the Control of Insanity
		Moral Insanity
		The Case of Daniel M´Naghten
		The Fall from Grace and Epistemological Crisis
		Psychiatry and Culture
		Conclusion
		References
	16 Social Unconscious Theory: Contributions of Group Analysis to Psychosocial Studies
		The Social Unconscious in Group Analysis
		The Tripartite Matrices of Socially Unconscious Processes
		Pichon-Rivière, Dialectic Spirals and the Dimensionality of Social Unconscious Processes
		A Short Vignette
		Group Analysis, Dialectic Spirals and Psychosocial Studies
		Summary
		References
	17 Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory
		Introduction
		The Figure of the Non-European
		In the Shadow of Fanon: Fictions of Race, Specters of War
		The Universal and the Question of Cultural Difference
		Colonial Trauma and Postcolonial ``Maladies of the Soul´´
		Rethinking Secularism and Religion
		``Interrogating Whiteness,´´ Decolonizing the Clinic
		Summary
		References
	18 The Psychosocial and Racialized Hauntings
		Introduction
		Psychosocial Racialization
		Theorizing Intersectionality
		Hauntology in the Psychosocial
		Contemporary Histories of Racialized Repressions
		Living the Psychosocial in Everyday Racialized Hauntings
			Summary/Conclusion
		References
	19 Fleeing the Scene of Sex and Race
		Introduction
		The Force of the Negative
			Queer Horizons
		Fugitive Negativity
			Plasticity
			Afro-Fabulation
			The Undercommons
		Conclusion
		References
	20 The Scene of Love
		The Psychoanalytic ``Scene´´
		Freud´s Ceremony and the Play of Forces
		From Resistance to Repetition: An Overview of Freud´s Theorizing of Transference
		The Lacanian Twist: Love as Metaphor
		Conclusions
		References
	21 Social Class
		Introduction: Class as an Emerging Concept
		Conceptualizing Class
		The Psychosocial and Class
		Beyond Upward Mobility
		Bourdieu and Psychoanalysis
		Class in the Present
		Deindustrialization
		Intergenerational Transmission of Class
		Classism
		Conclusions
		References
	22 Ethical Relationality, Precarity, and Vulnerability: ``a way of facing things without fear´´
		Splits and stitches
		``change in our psychoanalytic institutions´´
		``vulnerability itself´´
		``Evil is possible, but so is holiness´´
		``conditions for responsiveness´´
		``What kind of creatures are we?´´
		``the capacity to endure´´
		``a way of facing things without fear´´
		References
	23 Revising Trauma
		The Emergence of PTSD
		PTSD and Cultural Trauma
		Feminist Trauma Studies and the Expansion to the Quotidian
		Memory, Temporality, and the Rise of the Notion of ``Trigger´´
		Trigger Culture
		Conclusion: Triggers and the Shift in Temporality
		References
Part IV: Sites of Practice
	24 Affects and Politics
		Introduction
		Affects and Political Body
		Fear as Political Affect
		Psychoanalysis, Affects, and Social Emancipation
		Political Dissent and Deactivation of Affections
		References
	25 Populism
		Introduction
		The Poverty of Mainstream Populism Research
		The Laclau Moment
		Contemporary Psychosocial Orientations in Populism Studies
		Conclusion
		Summary
		References
	26 Freedom Versus Belonging: A Core Ambivalence in Contemporary Political Dynamics
		Introduction
		Fromm: The Aloneness of the Modern Individual
		The Core Ambivalence
			Guntrip: The Schizoid Dilemma
			The Claustro-Agoraphobic Predicament
		The Core Complex in Contemporary Politics
			The Liberal Escape from Freedom
			The State and Authority
			Terrorism
			Populism
		Conclusion
		References
	27 Social Psychoanalysis: From Theory to Practice
		The Ancestors: Fromm and Fanon
		Fanon, Fromm, Ferenczi, Freire, and Liberation Psychology
		Identity and Social Psychoanalysis
		Normative Unconscious Processes: Reproducing Inequalities
		The Big History: Normative Unconscious Processes and Neoliberal Racial Capitalism
		Normative Unconscious Processes and Psychoanalytic Institutions
		Resistance, Reimagining, and Repair: The Guarantee of Non-repeat
		References
	28 Carcerality and Carceral Spaces
		Preamble and Cultural Significance
		Theoretical Underpinning
		Carcerality and Purpose
		Reflexive Issues
		Architecture, Artifacts, and Culture
		Incarceration, Dynamic Processes, and Lived Experience
		Ethical Considerations
		Conclusion
		References
	29 Violence and Young Masculinities
		Introduction
		Entering the Site of Practice Through Psychosocial Lenses
		Façade of Violent Masculinities
		Masculine Anxiety and Violence Against Women
		Homophobic Violence
		Alternative Masculinities Through Fantasied Positive Fatherhood
		Concluding Remarks
		References
	30 ``He´s Shown Me the Road´´? Youth Work and Young Masculinities
		Introduction
		Thinking About Youth Work and Young Masculinities
			Reviewing Masculinities Theory: Structural and Post-Structural Approaches
			Psychosocial Approaches to Masculinity
			Black Masculinity
			Father Absence
		Thinking Psychosocially About Youth Work Relationships
		Germaine
		A Psychosocial Analysis
		Summary: Toward a Fully Psychosocial Youth Work
		References
	31 Psychoanalysis and Trans
		Introduction
		Closure of Gender Identity Development Service
		Psychoanalytic Reparations?
		Myths of Trans Origins and the Split Subject
		Psychoanalysis and Trans: Productive Investigations
		The Struggle with Embodiment
		Narrative
		Questioning vs. Affirmation
		Conclusion
		References
	32 Homophobia and the Psychic Life of LGBTQ People
		Introduction
		Defining Homophobia
		Understanding Homophobia
			Homophobia and Masculinity/Femininity
		Internalized Homophobia
			The LGBTQ Holding Hands Project
		Conclusion
		References
	33 The Politics of Reproduction
		Introduction
		Patriarchal Subjects
		Reproducing Mothers
		Post-Oedipal Subjects
		Maternal Subjects
		Postmaternal Politics, Postmaternal Subjects
		Summary
		References
	34 Living Prior Being
		Questions
		Enigma
		Abortion
		Pregnancy
		Abortion
		Unwanted Child
		Ghosts
		``X´´
		References
	35 Towards an Eco-Psycho-Social Analysis of Climate Change
		Introduction
		Psychosocial Analysis
		Digesting the Climate News
		The Missing ``Eco-´´
		Animism and Ontological Turning
		Ecopsychology
		Modernity
		Patriarchy, Outer and Inner
		Modern Man and Female Nature
		Gaia
		Ecofeminism
		Beyond Separation
		Affect and Social Dreaming
		To End with
		References
	36 Sensing the Urban Scene
		Introduction: Psychosocial Life Takes Place
		Changing Places, Challenging Subjects: Loss, Threat, Resistance, and Displacement
		Gentrification: From Political Economy to the Affective Politics of Place
		The Everyday Life of Gentrification: From Place-Seduction to Affective Escapes
		Place Seduction: Feeling the Vibe
		Neutralized Displacements: Subsuming Place-Identity
		Failed Seductions: Affective Escapes and Intimate Resistance
		Conclusion
		References
	37 The Multiple Lives of Diversity in Post-dictatorship Chile
		Introduction
		The Turn to Diversity
			Stories of Arrivals and Replacement
			Semantic Displacements: From Dissidence to Diversity
			The Diversity Turn in Post-dictatorship Chile
		The Psychic Life of Diversity
			The Turn and Its Ghostly Presence
		Notes from Fieldwork
			The Uses of Reflexivity
			Knowledge Transmission
		Conclusion
		References
	38 Media Studies and the Psychosocial Subject
		Part I: What Media Studies? - Mapping the Field
		Part II: A Psychosocial Understanding of Media
		Part III: The Psychosocial Study of Media
			Studies in the In-depth Hermeneutic Tradition
			The ``Media and the Inner World´´ Network
			Subjective Investments in Media (and Vice Versa)
			Lacanian Discourse Analysis
		Part IV: Miniature Portraits - The Media Studies Canon and the Psychosocial Subject
			Harold Lasswell and the Origins of Communication Research
			Ernst Kris and the Ego Psychology of the Masses
			Adorno and Horkheimer and the Study of Approbated Media Products
			Walter Benjamin: Allegorist with Media Vision
			Laura Mulvey and the Pleasures of Male Gazing
			A Preferred Reading of Stuart Hall
			Marshall McLuhan in the Rear-View Mirror
			Horton and Wohl and the Potential Space of the Para-Social
		Summary
		References
	39 Digital Lives
		Introduction: The Digital, Then and Now
		Cyberspace in the 1990s: Between Alienation and Freedom
		Web 2.0 and Its Discontents
		The Promise of Digital Recognition
		Sexualities and the Digital
		Playing Videogames and the Reality of the Virtual
		Conclusion: The Future, or Psychosocial Speculations
		References
	40 Psychosocial Theory for Social Work: The Example of Shame
		Introduction
		Psychosocial Thinking in Social Work: Some Historical Context
		Realpolitik
		What Psychosocial Theory Brings to Social Work: The Contemporary Picture
		Psychosocial Theory and Social Work Now: The Example of Shame
			What Is Meant by Shame?
		Why Social Workers Would Feel Shame
		Conclusion: Ways Forward
		References
	41 Psychosocial Reflexivity in Counseling Education
		Counseling Education in the Times of ``Psy-Complex´´
		The Question of Suffering in Counseling Education
		Counseling Education As Problem Spaces: Two Vignettes and Some Thoughts
		Psychic Retreats As a Space for Self-Maintenance
		Psychosocial Reflexivity Through Psychic Retreats
		References
Part V: Questions of Method
	42 Jouissance as Tool of Psychosocial Analysis
		Introduction
		What Is Jouissance?
			Beyond the Threshold of Pleasure
		The Dimension of Sexuality
			Polymorphous Enjoyments
			Constitutive Disequilibrium
			The Architecture of Enjoyment
		Enjoyment-in-Renunciation
		Libidinal Identifications
			Communities of Enjoyment
			Whiteness as Order of Enjoyment
			Obscene Solidarities
			Incitements of the Superego
			Revisiting (Racist) Symbolic/Group Identifications
			Libidinal Counter-Identification
		The Dialectic of Jouissance
			The Essence of the Law
			That Elusive Substance
			Imperiled Treasures
		Conclusion: Analyzing Libidinal Economy
		References
	43 Narrative and Discursive Research
		Introduction
		From Which Psychoanalysis to Whither Psychoanalysis?
		Negotiating the Ethics of Employing Psychoanalysis in Discursive Research
		Yes, But Is It Research?
		Holding onto the Critical Power of Psychoanalysis
		Tracing My Own Approach to Discursive Work Within Psychosocial Studies
		Future Horizons
		References
	44 Emotional Investments in Narrative Interviews
		Introduction
		The Free Association Narrative Method and the Pursuit of Emotional Investments
		The Solipsism of Desire and the Hampering of the Psyche-World Interaction
		Developing a Practice-Theoretical Psychosocial Method
		Radically Exposed and Invested: Tracing Motivational Energies in the Narrative Interview
		Emotional Investments as ``response to relevance´´
		Conclusion: A Practice-Theoretically Informed Psychosocial Narrative Method
		Summary
		References
	45 Psychosocial Aesthetics and Sensory Research Methods
		The Psychosocial Narrative Research Interview
		From Word to Image
		From Analysis to Syncretism
		From Story to Scene
		Summary
		References
	46 Deleuzian Approaches to Social Dreaming and Related Psychosocial Methods
		Introduction
			The Significance of Social Dreaming to Psychosocial Studies
			What Is Social Dreaming?
		The Body Without Organs
		From Sartre to Deleuze and the Limits of the Subject
		Your Life and a Life
		The Plane of Immanence
		The Kleinian in Deleuzian Theory
		Bergson´s Dream: Indifferent to Logic
		Smooth Space, Becomings, and the Rhizome
		How Art and Creativity Connect Deleuzian Philosophy to Social Dreaming and the Psychosocial
		Summary
		References
	47 A New Case Study Pedagogy for Teaching Psychoanalytic Theory
		Introduction
		The ``How´´ of Teaching Psychoanalytic Theory
		Working with Case Studies in Psychoanalytic Teaching
		A New Theoretical-Experiential Pedagogy
			Art: The Capacity to Sit in an Experience
			Music: The Timbre of a Voice
			Film: Waiting for Meaning to Emerge
			Literature: The Case Study as a Genre of Writing
		Conclusion
		References
	48 Psychosocial Studies and Literature
		Introduction
		Psychosocial Research and Subjectivity
		A Psychoanalytic Perspective
		Primary Process, Metaphor, and Embodied Meanings
		Structure, Context, and Embodied Meanings
		Literature and the Aesthetics of Language
		Psychosocial Studies and Intersectionality
		The Literary Text and Psychosocial Exploration
		Texts Within Texts
		History Within Story
		Narrative and Identity Development
		Conclusion
		References
	49 Ethnographies of the Psychosocial
		Introduction
		Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: Uneasy Entanglements
			Psychosocial Paths Ahead
		Social Terrain and Anxieties
			Contemporary Status
		Jumping to Conclusions: Resisting Shortcuts and Holistic Rethinking
		Conclusion
		References
			News Cited
	50 Death, Priests, Pollution, and Me
		Introduction
		The ``Polluted´´ MahaBrahmins
		Digesting the Offerings of Repentance
		The Silences
			``I have no fear´´
			``You eat, and I speak´´
			``We are like you´´
			``She is one of us´´
		The Encounters
		Conclusion
		References
Index