The Bourdieusian Unconscious
The Scientific and Political Significance of the Sociological Treatment of a Psychoanalytic Concept
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6431988 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gergely Csányi (0000-0002-4408-933X, Department of Social Research Methodology Eötvös Loránd University Budapest Hungary, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8308 • E-ISSN: 1468-5914 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jtsb.12437 |
| OpenAlex | W4404327090 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 38 |
From the very beginning of Pierre Bourdieu's oeuvre, but with increasing intensity, one can find expressions that are either explicitly taken from psychoanalysis, or at least have a psychoanalytic meaning. This paper aims to contribute to the existing discourse on Bourdieu's relation to psychoanalysis by examining the meaning of Bourdieu's most frequently used term, unconscious, which is also a key one in psychoanalysis, in Bourdieu's writings. In a brief introduction, I outline Bourdieu's relationship to psychoanalysis based on the literature and Bourdieu's texts, and argue that although Bourdieu's relationship with psychoanalysis remained controversial over the years, there is a growing integrative tendency, with psychoanalysis playing an increasingly important—even if sometimes hidden—role in his texts. In the main body of the paper, I argue that this tendency does not fully cover Bourdieu's approach to the unconscious, and that although his approach to the unconscious is not independent of the tendency discussed in the previous section, a dichotomy can be observed from the beginning to the end of the oeuvre, namely the parallel use of the unconscious in the sociological and psychoanalytic sense, and the lack of clarity regarding the relationship between the two. Finally, in the last section, I point out that socioanalysis, as an emancipatory project, should have clarified its position on the unconscious, because it marks the limits of the actors' potential for self‐reflexivity, which can also shape political strategies
Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · Unconscious mind · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics
History and Class Consciousness
From Sociology to Socioanalysis
Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss
The field of cultural production
Distinction
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Toward Socioanalysis
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Capital
Sozioanalyse – Zur Psychoanalyse des Sozialen mit Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu
Langage et pouvoir symbolique
The language of psychoanalysis
The Rules of Art
The Craft of Sociology
The State Nobility
The Rules of Sociological Method
From False Premises to False Conclusions. On Pierre Bourdieu’s Alleged Sociological Determinism
Bourdieu's Disavowal of Lacan
Bourdieu's Uneasy Psychoanalysis
An Invitation of Reflexive Sociology
Bourdieu and Psychoanalysis
La domination masculine
In Other Words
La sociologie clinique entre psychanalyse et socioanalyse
L'Excellence scolaire et les valeurs du système d'enseignement français
La distinction, critique sociale du jugement
Social Space and Symbolic Power
Pierre Bourdieu and the Reproduction of Determinism
Thinking with Bourdieu against Bourdieu
The social space and the genesis of groups
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |