The Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalysis in the Social Sciences and Humanities

495 Pages·2016·2.084 MB·English

by  Anthony Elliott, Jeffrey Prager

The Routledge Handbook of
Psychoanalysis in the Social
Sciences and Humanities
The Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalysis in the Social Sciences and Humanities provides a compre-
hensive, critical overview of the historical, theoretical and applied forms of psychoanalytical
criticism. This path-breaking handbook offers students new ways of understanding the powers
and limits of psychoanalysis, and of the social, cultural and political possibilities of psychoanalytic
critique.
The book offers students and professionals clear and concise chapters on the development
of psychoanalysis, introducing key theories that have influenced debates over the psyche, desire
and emotion in the social sciences and humanities. There are substantive chapters on classical
Freudian theory, Kleinian and Bionian theory, object relations psychoanalysis, Lacanian and
post-Lacanian approaches, feminist psychoanalysis, as well as postmodern trends in psycho-
analysis. There is a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches to psychoanalytic critique,
with contributions drawing from developments in sociology, politics, history, cultural studies,
women’s studies and architecture.
Anthony Elliott is Director of the Hawke Research Institute and Executive Director of the
Hawke EU Centre, where he is Research Professor of Sociology at the University of South
Australia. He is Visiting Global Professor of Sociology at Keio University, Japan and Visiting
Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin, Ireland. His recent books include C oncepts
of the Self (3rd edition, 2014), P sychoanalytic Theory: An Introduction (3rd edition, 2015) and Identity
(4 volumes, 2015).
Jeffrey Prager is a Professor of Sociology at UCLA, former Dean and Training and Supervising
Analyst at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles and in private practice in Bev-
erly Hills. His published research is on social repair in post-conflict societies, cross-generational
transmission of trauma, and American racism and reparations. He is the author of many books
and articles, including the award-winning P resenting the Past, Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of
Misremembering (Harvard).
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The Routledge Handbook
of Psychoanalysis in the
Social Sciences and
Humanities
Edited by Anthony Elliott and Jeffrey Prager
First published 2016
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Elliott, Anthony, 1964– editor. | Prager, Jeffrey, 1948– editor.
Title: The Routledge handbook of psychoanalysis in the social sciences and
humanities / edited by Anthony Elliott and Jeffrey Prager.
Other titles: Handbook of psychoanalysis in the social sciences and humanities
Description: 1 Edition. | New York : Routledge, 2016.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015043666| ISBN 9780415626927 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781315650821 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Psychoanalysis—History. | Psychoanalysis—Social aspects. |
Psychoanalysis and culture.
Classification: LCC BF173 .R728 2016 | DDC 150.19/5—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015043666
ISBN: 978-0-415-62692-7 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-65082-1 (ebk)
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Contents
List of fi gures viii
List of contributors ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
Anthony Elliott and Jeffrey Prager
PART I
Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic theories 11
1 Sigmund Freud: psychoanalysis and the unconscious 13
Matt Ffytche
2 Kleinian psychoanalysis 31
Edna O’Shaughnessy
3 Infant Observation 43
Margaret Rustin
4 Donald Winnicott and psychoanalysis 59
Jeffrey Prager
5 Wilfred Bion and psychoanalysis 76
Rafael E. López-Corvo
6 Jacques Lacan: Freud’s French interpreter 97
Sean Homer
7 Attachment theory and mentalization 115
Peter Fonagy and Chloe Campbell
8 Psychoanalysis and the analytic fi eld 132
Antonino Ferro and Giuseppe Civitarese
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Contents
9 Intersubjectivity 149
Jessica Benjamin
10 Contemporary European psychoanalysis 169
Anthony Elliott
11 Twentieth-century American psychoanalysis 185
Nancy Chodorow
12 Mexican psychoanalysis in the 20th century 206
Rubén Gallo
13 British psychoanalysis in the 20th century 225
Caroline Polmear
PART II
Psychoanalysis in the social sciences and humanities 243
14 History and psychoanalysis 245
Michael Roth
15 Sociology and psychoanalysis 259
Michael Rustin
16 Philosophy and psychoanalysis 278
Adrian Johnston
17 Literature and psychoanalysis 300
Madelon Sprengnether
18 Psychoanalysis and architecture 314
Elizabeth Danze and Stephen Sonnenberg
19 Cinema (fi lm) and psychoanalysis 333
Andrea Sabbadini
20 Psychoanalysis and the visual arts 348
Ellen Handler Spitz
21 Law and psychoanalysis 364
David Caudill
22 Feminism, gender and psychoanalysis 380
Janet Sayers
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Contents
23 Psychoanalysis and sexuality 397
Muriel Dimen
24 Psychoanalysis and reconciliation 416
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
25 Psychoanalysis and political repression 435
Max Hernández
26 Psychoanalysis and trauma 448
Sverre Varvin
Index 469
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Figures
18.1 The Acropolis 316
18.2 The Erikson model of psychosocial development 324
18.3 Design proposal by Jessica Glennie 329
20.1 P olish Rider by Rembrandt van Rijn, oil on panel, 1655 349
20.2 A rtist in His Studio by Rembrandt van Rijn, oil on panel, 1669 356
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Contributors
Jessica Benjamin is a supervising faculty member of the New York University Postdoctoral
Psychology program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and at the Stephen Mitchell Center
for Relational Studies. She has been part of the relational psychoanalytic movement from its
inception, helped to found the relational track at New York University Postdoctoral, the Inter-
national Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and the Mitchell Center
for Relational Studies. She is the author of T he Bonds of Love (1988), Like Subjects, Love Objects
(1995) and Shadow of the Other (1998), and the forthcoming volume B eyond Doer and Done To:
Recognition Theory, Intersubjectivity and the Third. Her current work considers the importance of
acknowledgment with reference not only to clinical practice but also collective, historical trauma.
Chloe Campbell is a Research Fellow at the Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London.
Her research interests involve mentalizing, epistemic trust and the history of childhood. Recent
publications include “Bad Blood Revisited: Attachment and Psychoanalysis” in the British Journal
of Psychotherapy (with Peter Fonagy, 2015); “Social Science, Parenting and Child Development”
in W hy the Social Sciences Matter (with Pasco Fearon and Lynne Murray, 2015); and “Why Are We
Interested in Attachments?” in The R outledge Handbook of Attachment: Theory (with Peter Fonagy,
Nicolas Lorenzini and Patrick Luyten, 2014).
David Caudill is Professor and Arthur M. Goldberg Family Chair in Law at Villanova Univer-
sity, where he teaches expert evidence, sports law and property; he is currently a Senior Fellow
at the University of Melbourne Law Faculty in Australia. Professor Caudill is the author of N o
Magic Wand: The Idealization of Science in Law (2006) and Stories About Science in Law: Literary and
Historical Images of Acquired Expertise (2011). His research and scholarly interests focus on law and
science studies, law and literature, and sports and entertainment law.
Nancy Chodorow, PhD, is Training and Supervising Analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society
and Institute; Supervising Analyst, Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center; and Faculty, San Francisco
Center for Psychoanalysis. She is Lecturer on Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge
Health Alliance; and Professor Emerita of Sociology and Clinical Faculty Emerita, University of
California, Berkeley. She is in private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Nancy Chodorow’s
books include The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture (1999)
and I ndividualizing Gender and Sexuality: Theory and Practice (2012). Since 2000, she has published
extensively on Loewald and the Loewaldian legacy, psychoanalysis and the social sciences, and
comparative psychoanalytic theory and technique. In 2004, she named an American independent
tradition, intersubjective ego psychology, and she is completing a book on that tradition.
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