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Freud, psychoanalysis, and sociology: some observations on the sociological analysis of the individual*. This paper is an advocacy for the employment of concepts within sociological theorizing about the individual. Through an exposition of Freud's views on the development of intra-psychic structure and a critique of Parsons' reduction of ...
Book Title: Freud and Modern Society. Book Subtitle: An outline and analysis of Freud’s sociology. Authors: Robert Bocock. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7364-1. Publisher: Springer Dordrecht. eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive. Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1976
Here we consider the moral framework in which Freudian social theory sits and a contrasting understanding of agency that confronts his modernist conception.
In the writer's opinion Freud's most valuable contributions to sociology are (I) establishing of the role of unconscious factors in human behavior, (2) emphasis on the role of wish fulfilment, and (3) analysis of the formation of dynamic traits and pat-
Do psychoanalysis and the unconsciousness have something to teach us about consciousness? Approaching Freud from a historical, psychoanalytical, anthropological and sociological perspective, we need to look at how Freudian theory may contribute to a better understanding of consciousness.
The sociology of Freud is built on his analysis of instincts, and has usually been given little serious consideration within sociology precisely because the concept of instinct is thought to be unsociological.
10 paź 2017 · Freud differs sharply from thinkers in sociology by beginning solely with the individual mind. The question then is how does his psychoanalytic theory of the mind lead to a theory of society? Or how does a notion of society become necessary for his psychoanalytic theory of the mind?
