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Freud, psychoanalysis, and sociology: some observations on the sociological analysis of the individual*. AB STRACT. 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 ...
Freud and the centrality of instincts in psychoanalytic sociology*. ABSTRACT. This article examines the use made of psychoanalysis by two recent writers, Weinstein and Platt, who follow Talcott Parsons in the way they try to link sociology and psychoanalytic ideas.
This paper articulates Sigmund Freud‟s conceptualization of the social world by surveying and critically examining four of his major sociological works: Civilized‟ Sexual Morality and Modern Nervous Illness (Freud, 1908/1991b), Totem and Taboo (Freud, 1913/1946), The Future of An Illusion (Freud, 1927/1991d), and Civilization and Its Discontents...
- Jonathan N. Stea
- 2012
Mar 13, 2012 · This paper articulates Sigmund Freud’s conceptualization of the social world by surveying and critically examining four of his major sociological works: Civilized’ Sexual Morality and Modern Nervous Illness (Freud, 1908/1991b), Totem and Taboo (Freud, 1913/1946), The Future of An Illusion (Freud, 1927/1991d), and Civilization and Its ...
- Jonathan N. Stea
- 2012
Freud, social theorist. Freud’s social theory originated in a critique of bourgeois sexual repression (Freud, 1898, 1908), but transformed to a more complex formulation after 1920, when he...
In contrast to Freud’s focus on psychosexual stages and basic human urges, Erikson’s view of self-development gave credit to more social aspects, like the way we negotiate between our own base desires and what is socially accepted (Erikson 1982).
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Freud, they might argue, was not only (and very explicitly) a psychologist, but also (and equally explicitly) a clinical psychologist, whose most immediate preoccupation was that of trying to cure the mental illnesses of his patients.
