The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis

'The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis reboots the long-interrupted conversation between two historic disciplines. As happens when cultures are separated by continental drift and time, differences of language and outlook and discourse obtain. But this book creates a space, a salon, that kickstarts the colloquy between these natural interlocutors into a new momentum. What an exciting development!' - Muriel Dimen, New York University, USA 'This book offers a refurbished analytic tool-kit for thinking across and mapping the gaps between inner and outer, individual and group, psychic and social, repression and oppression. This volume's reach thus goes well beyond the two disciplines named in its title "Sociology" and "Psychoanalysis" to prompt and provoke multiple, vital interdisciplinary investigations of the ways gender, race, and class are built, lived, and contested.' - Ann Pellegrini, New York University, USA

A collection of 18 contributions by well-known scholars in and outside the US, The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis shows how sociology has much to gain from incorporating rather than overlooking or marginalizing psychoanalysis and psychosocial approaches to a wide range of social topics.A collection of 18 contributions by well-known scholars in and outside the US, The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis shows how sociology has much to gain from incorporating rather than overlooking or marginalizing psychoanalysis and psychosocial approaches to a wide range of social topics.