Jacques Lacan and American Sociology

Be Wary of the Image

By:

Duane Rousselle

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Hardback

Series:

The Palgrave Lacan Series

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In this Palgrave Pivot, Duane Rousselle aims to disrupt the hold that pragmatist ideology has had over American sociology by demonstrating that the social bond has always been founded upon a fundamental and primordial bankruptcy. Using the Lacanian theory of “capitalist discourse,” Rousselle demonstrates that most of early American sociology suffered from an inadequate account of the “symbolic” within the mental and social lives of the individual subject. The psychoanalytic aspect of the social bond remained theoretically undeveloped in the American context. Instead it is the “image,” a product of the imaginary, which takes charge over any symbolic function. This intervention into pragmatic sociology seeks to recover the tradition of “grand theory” by bringing psychoanalytical and sociological discourse into fruitful communication with one another.

Author Biography:

Duane Rousselle is Visiting Professor of Sociology at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, USA. He is the author of Lacanian Realism: Clinical and Political Psychoanalysis and Post-Anarchism: A Reader. He maintains a private practice in Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Release date Australia

June 4th, 2019

Author

Duane Rousselle

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Edition

1st ed. 2019

Illustrations

1 Illustrations, color; 2 Illustrations, black and white; IX, 97 p. 3 illus., 1 illus. in color.

Pages

Series

The Palgrave Lacan Series

ISBN-13

9783030197254

Product ID

30319721

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