Michael Hoover wrote: >Freud & Marx: different kinds of materialism...any comments on below? >Michael Hoover > >Philip Green, _Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology & Gender in Hollywood_, >pp. 4... > >'"Ideology" has meaning only as an account of an individual's >transactions with a structured social whole, but psychoanalytic >theorizing always stands in danger of reducing social relationships >to a mother-child dyad, or a nuclear family triad, and thus >vitiating the concept of ideology.' Absolutely. Freud himself dropped a few hints about social influences - he spoke of children as developing ego ideals appropriate to their "family, class, and nation," a phrase about which you could write a book. But there's not much more than that. Althusser said that psychoanalysis deals with the time before the subject becomes a political being. Adorno, Butler, Zizek, and the rest of the gang use psa to analyze ideology, how we are inserted into it, how it sustains ourself in us & vice versa, our little compromises with and rebellions against it. The dying breed Lou was talking about - the big bucks West End Ave analysts, the New York Psychoanalytic Institute types - aren't much interested in that. I heard in the 1970s that the leading presenting complaint to such analysts was an inability to finish a dissertation. Doug
