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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 ...
Here we consider the moral framework in which Freudian social theory sits and a contrasting understanding of agency that confronts his modernist conception.
Freud's towering intellectual achievement in this respect is the substantiation of the proposition that all civilization has been based on two indispensable pillars: first, the systematic frustration, manipulation and suppression of human desires, and, second, on the provision of an endless string of emasculated substitute gratifications ...
An outline and analysis of Freud’s sociology. Book. © 1976. Download book PDF. Download book EPUB. Overview. Authors: Robert Bocock. 1291 Accesses. 13 Citations. About this book. by Ronald Fletcher To devote a volume to Freud in a series on 'The Making of Sociology' might seem, to some readers, very strange.
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-
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.
Tracing the Development of Freud‟s Social Theory. To Freud, psychoanalysis was clearly a social theory as well as a psychological theory. This section is dedicated to illustrating exactly how Freud‟s social theory corresponds to his psychological theory of the mind (i.e., psychoanalysis).
