The Social Unconscious: Culture , Self and Society

Professor Catherine B. Silver

CUNY Graduate Center

Spring 2000

GENERAL THEMES

GENERAL TEXTS

Craib, Psychoanalysis and Social Theory. The Linits of Sociology.

Elliott, Psychoanalytic Theory. An Introduction. chaps. 1 and 5

Jenkins, Social Identity, chaps 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 16

Laplanche.J and J.B Pontalis. The Language of Psychoanalysis

Sanford, Self and Society. Social Change and Social Development , chaps 1, 4, 6, 7, 13, 15

CLASSICAL STATEMENTS

Adorno, et al., The Authoritarian Personality. chaps. 1, Conclusion

Foucault, The Care of the Self. The History of Sexuality vol.3, part II “ The cultivation of the

self”

Freud, Civilization and its Discontent. chaps 1,4,6,7

“ “Reflections Upon War and Death,” “Wy War?”

“ “Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego”

Gerth and Mills, Character and Social Structure. Chaps.2, 4, VII, XVI

Mannheim, Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction. Introduction chap. 3 and Part I.

Mead, Mind Self and Society. pp. 135-226; 260-328.

Parsons et al., The General Theory of Action. part I, chap. 1.

Parsons, The Social System. Chap.6

Weber, “The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism”

Wrong, “The Oversocialized Conception of Man.”

IDENTITIES AND THE SELF IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

Bauman Zygmunt, “ From Pilgrim to Tourist- or a Short History of Identity.”

in Cultural Identity

Cushman, “Why the Self is Empty: Toward a Historically Situated Psychology.”

“ Constructing the Self, Constructing America. chaps 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, appendix

Elias, The Civilizing Process. pp.125-168; 443-465

Foucault, “Freud and the Technologies of the Self” in Technologies of the Self

CONTRADICTIONS, IRRATIONALITY AND CONFLICTS OF THE SELF

Adorno et al., The Authoritarian Personality. chaps 2, 5

Wrong, The Problem of Order. chap. 6

Hall, “Who Needs Identity?” in Cultural Identity

Oglensky, Bonnie, “Socio-Psychoanalytic Perspective on the Subordinate.”

Woodward, Aging and its Discontents. Freud and Other Fictions chaps 1-5

SELFHOOD, BIOGRAPHY AND SOCIETY

Freud, An Autobiographical Study

Cixous, “The Laugh of the Medusa.”

Erikson, Young Man Luther. A Study in Psychoanalysis and History

Flax, Disputed Subjects. Essays on Psychoanlalysis, Politics and Philosophy. Chaps. 1,2,3.

Rose, “Identity, Genealogy, History” in Cultural Identity

Bologh, Love or Greatness. Chap. 1, 3, 13

THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SELF

Connell, Masculinities. Chaps: 1, 3, 7, 10

Elliott, Subject t o Ourselves: Social Theory, Psychoanalysis and Politics and Culture Chps1,3.

Flax, Thinking Fragments. Chaps.1, 2, 7, conclusion

Lock, Encounters with Aging. Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America.

Roland, In Search of the Self in India and Japan. chap.1.

Yanay “National Hatred, Female Subjectivity. and the Boundaries of Cultural Discourses.”

THE SELF UNDER DOMINATION

Colonialism:

Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth. Preface 1-21,38-69, 92-113, 266-311.

Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized. Preface and chap. 2.

Nandy, Ashis. 1983. The Intimate Enemy.

Extreme circunstances:

Bettlheim, Bruno. 1943. The Informed Heart. Autonomy in Mass Age.

Patriarchy/Capitalism:

Chancer, Sadomasochism in Everyday Life.

Kovel, White Racism. chaps. 1, 4, 5, 6.

Rustin, The Good Society and the Inner World. chap.3

Scheff, Bloody Revenge. Introduction, chaps 1,5

Turkel, The Second Self. Computers and the Human Spirit.

Introduction, Chaps. 4, 8, 9, notes

Modern/Post-modern conditions:

Flax, Thinking Fragments. chaps.1,2,7, conclusion

Allison,Permitted and Prohibited Desires: mothers and censorship in Japan..

Clough, The End(s) of Ethnography, Introduction, chaps 1-4

Elliot, 1999. “ Freud, Feminism and Postmodernism”

IDENTITY AND SOCIAL STRUCTURES

Social structures:

Fromm and Maccoby, Social Character in a Mexican Village. Chaps.1,4,5,9,10.

Giddens, Modernity and Self Identity. Self and Society in Late Modern Age.

Chaps: 2,6.

Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism. pp. 30-51

Sennett, Richard. Authority

Work structures:

Menzies, “A case Study in the Functioning of Social Systems as Defense against

anxiety,”

Pringle, Sexuality, Power and Work. Secretaries Talk. Chaps. 4, 8

Silver and Spilerman, “Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Occupational Choice and

Attainment.”

Alllison, Sexuality, Pleasure and Corporate Masculinity. Chaps 4, 5, 7, 8

Bureaucracies:

Baum, The Invisible Bureaucray. The Unconscious in Problem Solving. chaps.

Fergusson, The Feminist Case against Bureaucracy. chap. 1

Kohn and Schooler, Work and Personality. chaps 2, 4.

Du Gay, “Organizing Identity: Entrepreneurial Governance and Public Management.”

In Cultural Identity

Family structures:

Frenkel-Brunswik, ”Parents, Childhood, Sex, People and the Self..... ”

Laing and Esterson, Sanity, Madness and the Family, Intro, chap 1, 2.

Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering. Introduction, chaps 11, 12.

Johnson. Frank A. 1993. Dependency and Japanese Socialization, pp. 80-264

METHODOLOGIES OF THE SELF

Frankel-Brunswik, “The Interview as an Approach to the Prejudice Personality.” in The Authoritarian Personality, chap. VII, VIII, IX, X

Hollway Wendy and Tony Jefferson. 1997. “Eliciting Narratives Through the In-depth Interview Method,” Qualitative Inquiry, vol.3(1):53-70.

Hunt, Psychoanalytic Aspects of Field Work. Qualitative Research Methods.

Reinharz, Feminist Methods in Social Research

Silver and Muller, “Effects of Ascribed and Achieved Characteristics on

Social Values in Japan and the US,”

Walkerdine, “Videao Replay: Families, Films and Fantasy.”

THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY

Butler, “Bodies that Matter” in Bodies that Matter

Calhoun, Social Theory and The Politics of Identity. chap.8

Showalter, Hystories. Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media chaps 1,2,4,5