Abstract: This article tries to associate Jacques Lacan’s first works to a special sociological disposition (the sociological apperception) defined as taking into account the relations between the individual and his social environment. This disposition relates through three aspects to Lacan’s first works: a special attention to social relations in the personality building process and in the formation of individual or collective pathologies; attention to the thresholds between nature and culture in what specifies human being; the importance of environmental issues. Beyond concrete references to Durkheim, Mauss or Levi-Strauss, this article suggests there is fruitful work to be done on the relationships between the style of lacanian theory and sociology and anthropology, which can help renew the suspended dialogue between sociology and psychoanalysis.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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