Opening/Closing the Sociological Mind to Psychoanalysis

  • George Cavalletto
  • Catherine Silver
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Abstract

For sociologists interested in integrating psychoanalytic ideas and concepts in their work, important lessons, both positive and negative, can be gleaned from the past history of the relationship between the social sciences and psychoanalysis. Specifically, regarding US sociology, one period is arguably of particular interest: the period following World War II, from the late 1940s through the 1950s.

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Book Review American Sociological Review Authorial Voice Psychoanalytic Concept Freudian Theory 
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