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File Format | PDF
File Size | 8.53 MB
Pages | 176
Language | English
Category | NLP
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Description: Russell Jacoby
defines social amnesia as society's repression of remembrance—society's own
past. In this book, Jacoby excavates the critical and historical concepts that
have fallen prey to the dynamic of a society that strips them both of their
historical and critical content. Social Amnesia is an effort to remember what
is perpetually lost under the pressure of society. It is simultaneously a
critique of present practices and theories in psychology. Jacoby's new
self-evaluation has the same sharp edge as the book itself, offering special
insights into the evolution of psychological theory during the past two
decades.
In his probing,
self-critical new introduction, Jacoby maintains that any serious appraisal of
psychology or sociology, or any discipline, must seek to separate the political
from the theoretical. He discusses how in the years since Social Amnesia was
first published society has oscillated from extreme subjectivism to extreme
objectivism, which feed off each other and constitute two forms of social
amnesia: a forgetting of the past and a pseudo-historical consciousness. Social
Amnesia contains a forceful argument for "thinking against the grain—an
endeavor that remains as urgent as ever." It is an important work for
sociologists, psychologists, and psychoanalysts.
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Social amnesia: A critique of conformist psychology from Adler to Laing
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