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Psychoanalysis, socialization and society: the psychoanalytical thought and interpretation of Alfred Lorenzer
Psychoanalyse, Sozialisation und Gesellschaft: zum psychoanalytischen Denken und Deuten von Alfred Lorenzer
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Abstract
"Alfred Lorenzer belongs to those few psychoanalysts, who did understand psychoanalysis not only in clinical therapy, clinical thinking and research but also as a social science. In the perspective of Lorenzer the individual fundamentally could not be taken out of his social contexts. The therapeuti... view more
"Alfred Lorenzer belongs to those few psychoanalysts, who did understand psychoanalysis not only in clinical therapy, clinical thinking and research but also as a social science. In the perspective of Lorenzer the individual fundamentally could not be taken out of his social contexts. The therapeutic setting of psychoanalysis insofar is an artificial undertaking, a psychological experiment of a special kind. Lorenzer did understand society not only as an environment outside of the individual, how it is studied through most of the psychological paradigms. In the sense of Lorenzer society penetrates and mediates the Jeep individual structures. He describes this process as a socialization of the individual. In the following essay the author discusses the perspective of Lorenzer's research in the fields of mother-child-relationship, of the child's learning of language, of work-relationships, and of religious and ideological attitudes. The research interest is directed on the complex mediation of familial and social interaction forms. The center of the analyses is the concept of the unconsciousness, which Lorenzer has developed in a close relation to Sigmund Freud." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
psychoanalysis; socialization; condition of socialization; society; image of society; therapy; research approach; paradigm; environment; language; attitude; mother; child; interaction; consciousness
Classification
General Sociology, Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Sociology, Sociological Theories
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Psychology
Social Psychology
Method
descriptive study; theory application
Document language
English
Publication Year
2013
Page/Pages
p. 56-70
Journal
Historical Social Research, 38 (2013) 2
Issue topic
Cultural analysis and in-depth hermeneutics
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.38.2013.2.56-70
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed