Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition: Self and Society from Freud to Kristeva(Routledge Revivals: Anthony Elliott: Early Works in Social T)

Series: Routledge Revivals: Anthony Elliott: Early Works in Social T

Originally published in 1999 Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition is a benchmark critique of Freudian theory in which a dialogue between the Frankfurt School, the Lacanian tradition and post-Lacanian developments in critical and feminist theory is developed. Considering afresh the relations between self and society, Elliot argues for the importance of imagination and the unconscious in u