In Two Minds – Some Theoretical Implications of Lynne Layton's Paper, 'A Fork in the Royal Road'
| Autor: | Vic Blake |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Cultural Studies
Health (social science) Psychoanalysis Unconscious mind Sociology and Political Science Social Psychology media_common.quotation_subject Resolution (logic) Determinism Politics Cultural studies Free will Social inequality Sociology Psychoanalytic theory Applied Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. 11:84-93 |
| ISSN: | 1543-3390 1088-0763 |
| DOI: | 10.1057/palgrave.pcs.2100070 |
| Popis: | Debates around issues of free will and determinism continue unabated and appear to be no nearer to a resolution. This article focuses on a recent paper by Lynne Layton to show how dichotomous reasoning can lead to positionality and thereby to a closing-off of possibilities rather than towards a resolution of this debate. Taking the transferential encounter as an example, the author questions current thinking on the so-called “unbridgeable gap” between unconscious drives and the social world and suggests that if psychosocial approaches are to work they have to be able to hold on to the idea of a universal unconscious and to be able to reconcile this with the structures of social existence into which agents are born and live out their lives. |
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