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Author Webb, Eugene, 1938-

Title The self between : from Freud to the new social psychology of France / Eugene Webb
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©1993

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 268 pages)
Contents The cultural situation of psychoanalytic thought in France -- French critiques of Freud : François Roustang ; Marie Balmary; Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen -- René Girard and the psychology of mimetic desire -- Jean-Michel Oughourlian and the psychology of the interdividual -- The social and political dimension in the Girardian School -- Psychology and trancendence : beyond the interdividual : René Girard on true and false transcedence ; Marie Balmary and the knife of differentiation -- From psychology to philosophy of consciousness
Summary An important emerging trend in contemporary French thought is challenging the basic assumptions of Freudian theory while seeking also to assimilate it in a new psychology that combines an awareness of the sociality of personhood with belief in a morally responsible self. "The events of the 1960s," writes Eugene Webb, including the loss of Algeria, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the American war in the former French colony of Indo-China, "effectively precluded any hope that might have been placed in the possibility that some grand movement of history led by some trustworthy agent or chosen people within it would result in a new and more promising world. The uprising of 1968 was the last desperate outburst of utopian expectations, and it ushered in a new introspectiveness that looked to psychoanalysis for explanations that philosophy and politics no longer seemed able to give." Thus people in France began to looks seriously to Freudianism, in the transformed version of Jacques Lacan, for a new way of understanding human relations and the relations between human beings and society. The movement in France is not specifically psychoanalytic but developed against such a background. Psychoanalytic thought acquired the kind of centrality in French intellectual life once associated with existentialism and Marxism and later with structuralism - a centrality it probably never possessed in the United States, even at the peak of its popularity. The current movement is a reassessment and rethinking of Freud's thought and influence, and it is a movement as yet almost unknown to the American public
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-260) and index
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Subject Girard, René, 1923-2015 -- Influence
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 -- Influence
SUBJECT Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 -- Influence
Girard, Rene, 1923-2015 -- Influence
Girard, René, 1923-
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 fast
Girard, René, 1923-2015 fast
Freud, Sigmund 1856-1939 gnd
Girard, René 1923-2015 gnd
Lacan, Jacques 1901-1981 gnd
Subject Psychoanalysis -- France -- History
Psychoanalysis -- Social aspects -- France -- History
Psychoanalysis -- history
Social Conditions -- history
PSYCHOLOGY -- Reference.
PSYCHOLOGY -- History.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Intellectual life
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis -- Social aspects
Geschichte
Psychoanalyse
Rezeption
Sozialpsychologie
Psychoanalyse.
SUBJECT France -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051442
France
Subject France
Frankreich
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021694790
ISBN 9780295805306
0295805307