The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis: Diverse Perspectives on the Psychosocial

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Introduction: The Unhappy Divorce: From Marginalization to Revitalization....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Opening/Closing the Sociological Mind to Psychoanalysis....Pages 17-52
Paranoid and Institutional Responses to Psychoanalysis among Early Sociologists: A Socio-Psychoanalytic Interpretation....Pages 53-76
The Unconscious in Cultural Dispute: On the Ethics of Psychosocial Discovery....Pages 77-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Sustaining an Unlikely Marriage: Biographical, Theoretical, and Intellectual Notes....Pages 101-121
Why Is It Easy to Be a Psychoanalyst and a Feminist, But not a Psychoanalyst and a Social Scientist? Reflections of a Psychoanalytic Hybrid....Pages 122-139
The Narcissism of Minor Differences: The Status Anxiety and Disciplinary Intolerance between Sociology and Psychoanalysis....Pages 140-158
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Escapes from Freedom: Political Extremism, Conspiracy Theories, and the Sociology of Emotions....Pages 161-189
C. Wright Mills, Freud, and the Psychosocial Imagination....Pages 190-202
From Sociology to Socioanalysis: Rethinking Bourdieu’s Concepts of Habitus, Symbolic Capital, and Field along Psychoanalytic Lines....Pages 203-219
The Ethnographic Spiral: Reflections on the Intersection of Life History and Ideal-Typical Analysis....Pages 220-233
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
Persona: Psychodynamic and Sociological Dimensions of a Project on US Activism and Political Violence....Pages 239-265
Foreclosure from Freud to Fannie Mae....Pages 269-283
Melancholia and the Racial Order: A Psychosocial Analysis of America’s Enduring Racism....Pages 284-316
On the Melancholia of New Individualism....Pages 317-337
The Shame of Survival: Rethinking Trauma’s Aftermath....Pages 338-356
Racial Hatred and Racial Prejudice: A Difference that Makes a Difference....Pages 359-379
Definitive Exclusions: The Social Fact and the Subjects of Neo-Liberalism....Pages 380-400
”One Has to Belong, Somehow”: Acts of Belonging at the Intersection of Ethnicity, Sexuality, and Citizenship....Pages 401-414
Back Matter....Pages 415-427