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Patriarchy and phantasy: A conception of psychoanalytic sociology

Patriarchy and phantasy: A conception of psychoanalytic sociology OTHER VOICES PATRIARCHY AND PHANTASY: A CONCEPTION OF PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIOLOGY Jon Snodgrass In Western intellectual history, the beginning of sociologically informed psychoanalysis is frequently marked by the 1913 publication of Freud's Totem and Taboo. However, in Life and Death in Psychoanalysis Laplanche contends that Freud's collected works are a continuous, and often contra- dictory, debate about the relative contributions of biology and society to human thought and behavior? If so, psychoanalytic social science is least developed in Freud's early, physiologically oriented "Project for a Scientific Psychology" (1895) 2 and most developed in the late anthropological trilogy: The Future of an Illusion (1927), ~ Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), 4 and Moses and Monotheism (1939). s "The fluctuation in Freud's writings between medical investigation and a theory of culture," Ricoeur writes, "bears witness to the scope of the Freudian project. "6 As his first major work in anthropology, Totem and Taboo undertook for the social sciences in the twentieth century what Darwin had accomplished for the physical sciences in the nineteenth: an account of the origin of human society, the psychoanalytic parallel to The Descent of Man. Of the early followers of Freud, many were exercised by the nature ver- http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

Patriarchy and phantasy: A conception of psychoanalytic sociology

Snodgrass, Jon
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis , Volume 43 (3): 15 – Sep 1, 1983
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Springer Journals
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1983 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
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OTHER VOICES PATRIARCHY AND PHANTASY: A CONCEPTION OF PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIOLOGY Jon Snodgrass In Western intellectual history, the beginning of sociologically informed psychoanalysis is frequently marked by the 1913 publication of Freud's Totem and Taboo. However, in Life and Death in Psychoanalysis Laplanche contends that Freud's collected works are a continuous, and often contra- dictory, debate about the relative contributions of biology and society to human thought and behavior? If so, psychoanalytic social science is least developed in Freud's early, physiologically oriented "Project for a Scientific Psychology" (1895) 2 and most developed in the late anthropological trilogy: The Future of an Illusion (1927), ~ Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), 4 and Moses and Monotheism (1939). s "The fluctuation in Freud's writings between medical investigation and a theory of culture," Ricoeur writes, "bears witness to the scope of the Freudian project. "6 As his first major work in anthropology, Totem and Taboo undertook for the social sciences in the twentieth century what Darwin had accomplished for the physical sciences in the nineteenth: an account of the origin of human society, the psychoanalytic parallel to The Descent of Man. Of the early followers of Freud, many were exercised by the nature ver-

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Published: Sep 1, 1983

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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