Society and Psyche

Providing interpretations and drawing critically from classical and modern social theory post-structuralism and psychoanalytic theory this original study offers an alternative way of thinking about the social and the individual. It offers critical analyses of among others Marx Giddens Bourdieu Derrida Laclau and Mouffe Castoriadis Freud and modern psychoanalytic theorists and considers their roles in advancing our present-day conceptualization of the social and the self. In theorizing that behaviour is both socially determined and autonomous it avoids the impasses of either individualist or structuralist approaches.