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UE558 - Psyche vs Society ? A Theoretical and Political Dilemma
Lieu et planning
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Campus Condorcet-Centre de colloques
Centre de colloques, Cours des humanités 93300 Aubervilliers
Salle 3.07
1er semestre / hebdomadaire, samedi 14:30-18:30
du 6 novembre 2021 au 18 décembre 2021
Nombre de séances : 6
Description
Dernière modification : 21 mars 2022 12:54
- Type d'UE
- Séminaires DE/MC
- Disciplines
- Signes, formes, représentations, Sociologie
- Page web
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- Langues
- anglais
- Mots-clés
- Histoire intellectuelle Psychologie
- Aires culturelles
- Amérique du Nord
Intervenant·e·s
- Eva Illouz [référent·e] directrice d'études, EHESS / Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique (CESSP)
This course examines various tentatives to think of the connection between self, personality, and society from Theodor Adorno’s Authoritarian Personality to Arthur Kleinman’s Illness Narratives. Psychology and sociology can be thought either as rival and competing frameworks or as complementary. We review various attempts to map out and synthesize the interaction between psychological and social structures through the works of Adorno, Tom Lutz, Liah Greenfeld, Arthur Kleinman and many others. Ultimately we reject attempts at synthesis and propose to reformulate the language of psychological disease in sociological terms.
The seminar is taught jointly with Dr. Edgar Cabanas (Universidad Camilo José Cela),
Le programme détaillé n'est pas disponible.
Master
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Séminaires de recherche
– Sociologie
– M1/S1-M2/S3
Suivi et validation – semestriel hebdomadaire = 6 ECTS
MCC – exposé oral
Renseignements
- Contacts additionnels
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- Informations pratiques
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- Direction de travaux des étudiants
Contatcter l'enseignante par courriel
- Réception des candidats
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- Pré-requis
Ouvert aux etudiants de l'EHESS et aux aux auditeurs libres
Compte rendu
The starting point of this class was a discussion of the differences between the two categories of “soul” and “psyche”. Souls presuppose a moral hierarchy, a connection between self and cosmos, a distinction between sin and virtue; they are a-temporal, that is, have no history; souls must discover and enact a truth that has been established before and beyond their private and particular self. Psyches on the other hand, are not moral constructs. They are not organized by an inner moral hierarchy and distinction between good and evil; they refer only to the self and its particular history; they are permeable and malleable. Once the difference between soul and psyche is established, we can then ask “what social uses can be made of the notion of psyche?”
The course traced back the emergence of the notion of psyche to psychoanalysis. It treats psychoanalysis as a cultural outlook rather than as a scientific view. Despite their many differences, psychoanalysis has provided the vocabulary and narratives for self-help culture.
In a second step, the course has followed the works of anthropologist Arthur Kleinman who has argued that the psyche is a cultural formation and that mental disease is the expression of cultural meanings. Depression for example has been notoriously related to modernity (freedom, powerlessness, multiplication of choice, acute sense of responsibility).
The students were asked to analyze mental pathologies as being also forms of cultural meanings.
Dernière modification : 21 mars 2022 12:54
- Type d'UE
- Séminaires DE/MC
- Disciplines
- Signes, formes, représentations, Sociologie
- Page web
- -
- Langues
- anglais
- Mots-clés
- Histoire intellectuelle Psychologie
- Aires culturelles
- Amérique du Nord
Intervenant·e·s
- Eva Illouz [référent·e] directrice d'études, EHESS / Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique (CESSP)
This course examines various tentatives to think of the connection between self, personality, and society from Theodor Adorno’s Authoritarian Personality to Arthur Kleinman’s Illness Narratives. Psychology and sociology can be thought either as rival and competing frameworks or as complementary. We review various attempts to map out and synthesize the interaction between psychological and social structures through the works of Adorno, Tom Lutz, Liah Greenfeld, Arthur Kleinman and many others. Ultimately we reject attempts at synthesis and propose to reformulate the language of psychological disease in sociological terms.
The seminar is taught jointly with Dr. Edgar Cabanas (Universidad Camilo José Cela),
Le programme détaillé n'est pas disponible.
-
Séminaires de recherche
– Sociologie
– M1/S1-M2/S3
Suivi et validation – semestriel hebdomadaire = 6 ECTS
MCC – exposé oral
- Contacts additionnels
- -
- Informations pratiques
- -
- Direction de travaux des étudiants
Contatcter l'enseignante par courriel
- Réception des candidats
- -
- Pré-requis
Ouvert aux etudiants de l'EHESS et aux aux auditeurs libres
-
Campus Condorcet-Centre de colloques
Centre de colloques, Cours des humanités 93300 Aubervilliers
Salle 3.07
1er semestre / hebdomadaire, samedi 14:30-18:30
du 6 novembre 2021 au 18 décembre 2021
Nombre de séances : 6
The starting point of this class was a discussion of the differences between the two categories of “soul” and “psyche”. Souls presuppose a moral hierarchy, a connection between self and cosmos, a distinction between sin and virtue; they are a-temporal, that is, have no history; souls must discover and enact a truth that has been established before and beyond their private and particular self. Psyches on the other hand, are not moral constructs. They are not organized by an inner moral hierarchy and distinction between good and evil; they refer only to the self and its particular history; they are permeable and malleable. Once the difference between soul and psyche is established, we can then ask “what social uses can be made of the notion of psyche?”
The course traced back the emergence of the notion of psyche to psychoanalysis. It treats psychoanalysis as a cultural outlook rather than as a scientific view. Despite their many differences, psychoanalysis has provided the vocabulary and narratives for self-help culture.
In a second step, the course has followed the works of anthropologist Arthur Kleinman who has argued that the psyche is a cultural formation and that mental disease is the expression of cultural meanings. Depression for example has been notoriously related to modernity (freedom, powerlessness, multiplication of choice, acute sense of responsibility).
The students were asked to analyze mental pathologies as being also forms of cultural meanings.