Lacan and Culturalism: A Chronicle of an “Untimely” Resistance to Psychoanalysis

• Published in: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association Vol. 71; no. 1; pp. 33 - 60
• Main Author: Guérin, Nicolas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.02.2023; SAGE Publications (UK and US)
• Subjects: History, 20th Century; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Psychoanalysis - history; United States; United States; neo-Freudians; new subject; culturalism; social criticism; Lacan; Freud; Adorno; Horney; Marcuse; Fromm; French psychoanalysis; Zinberg; Social criticism; Psychanalyse française; nouveau sujet; culturalisme; critique sociale

Although neither Sigmund Freud nor Jacques Lacan ever neglected the place of culture and the social field for the subject, they always opposed “culturalist” ideas, even when such ideas no longer used this label. It is important to examine what both of these figures said about culturalism, but it is...