ABSTRACT
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 understanding issues about the self and self-identity, ideology and power, sexual difference and gender.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 3|33 pages
Repression and Social Transformation
Critical Theory Beyond the Politics of Domination
chapter 6|30 pages
Sexual Division, Gender-Identity and Symbolic Order
Feminist Politics and Post-Lacanian Theory
chapter 7|38 pages
Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition
The Possibilities of the Social Imaginary