Subject to Ourselves: An Introduction to Freud, Psychoanalysis, and Social Theory

by Elliott,Anthony

• ISBN13: 9781594510076
• ISBN10: 1594510075
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-07-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The revised edition of Subject to Ourselves , a lively and provocative book that was a leader on its topic in England, uses psychoanalytic theory as the basis for a fresh reassessment of the nature of modernity and postmodernism. Analyzing changing experiences of selfhood, desire, interpersonal relations, culture and globalization, the author develops a novel account of postmodernity that supplants current understandings of 'fragmented selves'.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Foreword	xi
Zygmunt Bauman
Introduction to the Second Edition: Psychoanalysis, Modernity, Postmodernism: Theorizing For a New Era	xv
Introduction to the First Edition: Fantasy, Modern and Postmodem	1	(4)
The Ambivalence of Identity Between Modernity and Postmodernity	5	(34)
Modern hopes, modern fears	8	(4)
Self and desire in psychoanalysis	12	(6)
Postmodernity: theory, identity, society	18	(4)
Contemporary psychoanalysis, postmodern identities	22	(9)
Postmodernity and otherness, or respacing self and world	31	(8)
Contradictions of the Imagination Freud in the Stream of Modernity	39	(26)
Inner conflict, outer certainty	42	(8)
The seductions of psychoanalysis	50	(6)
The psychologization of desire	56	(6)
Modernity, fantasy, denial	62	(3)
The Epic of Mastery Modernist Edges of Fantasy	65	(30)
Modernity as risk and reflexivity	66	(4)
The split subject of reflexivity	70	(5)
Fantasy and reflexive turbulence: an alternative view	75	(3)
Technoscience, power, mastery	78	(2)
Excursus: on Bosnia and the otherness of fantasy	80	(12)
Reflexivity and critical self-reflection	92	(3)
Postmodern Contexts, Plural Worlds The Possibilities and Pressures of Social Change	95	(32)
Postmodernity, space-time transformations, floating identities	97	(4)
Contemporary psychoanalytic dialogues	101	(3)
Experience, thinking, containment	104	(6)
Thinking and denial, postmodern	110	(2)
Social theory and postmodernity: Jameson and Baudrillard	112	(7)
Postmodern dimensions of processing and misrecognition: some implications	119	(8)
Postmodernity, or Modernity in Reverse Reflexive Scanning, Strangeness, Imagination	127	(29)
Reflexivity, scanning and postmodernity	129	(9)
Strangeness, shock and the matrix of containment	138	(8)
Sketches of postmodern containment	146	(1)
Scanning psychic space: the Walkman	146	(3)
Stretching culture: the O.J. Simpson trial	149	(3)
Living with catastrophic change	152	(2)
Afterword: the politics of imagination	154	(2)
Notes	156	(11)
Index	167