The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis

Preface; Jeffrey Alexander Foreword; Craig Calhoun Introduction: The Unfulfilled Promise: From Marginalization to Revitalization; Lynn S. Chancer and John Andrews PART I: THE HISTORY OF SOCIOLOGY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS IN THE US: DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES ON A LONGSTANDING RELATIONSHIP 1. Opening/Closing the Sociological Mind to Psychoanalysis; George Cavalletto and Catherine Silver 2. Paranoid and Institutional Responses to Psychoanalysis Among Early Sociologists: A Socio-psychoanalytic Interpretation; Catherine Silver 3. The Unconscious in Cultural Dispute: On the Ethics of Psychosocial Discovery; Thomas DeGloma PART II: ARE PSYCHOSOCIAL/SOCIOANALYTIC SYNTHESES POSSIBLE? 4. Sustaining an Unlikely Marriage: Biographical, Theoretical, and Intellectual Notes; Neil Smelser 5. Why is it Easy to be a Psychoanalyst and a Feminist, but not a Psychoanalyst and a Social Scientist? Reflections of a Psychoanalytic Hybrid; Nancy Chodorow 6: The Narcissism of Minor Differences: The Status Anxiety & Disciplinary Intolerance between Sociology and Psychoanalysis; Siamak Mohavedi PART III: THE UNFULFILLED PROMISE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS AND SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY 7. Escapes from Freedom: Political Extremism, Conspiracy Theories and the Sociology of Emotions; Neil McLaughlin 8. C. Wright Mills, Freud and the Psychosocial Imagination; Lynn S. Chancer 9. Bourdieu, Socio-analysis and Psycho-analysis; George Steinmetz 10. The Ethnographic Spiral: Reflections on the Intersection of Life history and Ideal-Typical Analysis; Philip Manning PART IV: THE PSYCHOSOCIAL(ANALYTIC) IN RESEARCH AND PRACTICE The Psychoanalytic Underpinnings of Subject (Object) Selection? 11. PERSONA: Psychodynamic and Sociological Dimensions of a Project on US Activism and Political Violence; Gilda Zwerman Applying Freud's Ideas to Contemporary Culture 12. Foreclosure from Freud to Fannie Mae; John Andrews 13. 'Mourning becomes Eclectic': Racial Melancholia in an Age of Reconciliation; Jeffery Prager 14. On The Melancholiaof New