Cheliotis, Leonidas 
ORCID: 0000-0003-2707-853X
(2011)
For a Freudo-Marxist critique of social domination: rediscovering Erich Fromm through the mirror of Pierre Bourdieu.
Journal of Classical Sociology, 11 (4).
pp. 438-461.
ISSN 1468-795X
Abstract
This article aims to make a case and set the foundations for retrieving Erich Fromm’s Freudo- Marxist theory of action and his approach to social domination in particular. To this end, Frommian psychoanalysis is compared with the ‘socio-analysis’ of Pierre Bourdieu. As far as method is concerned, whereas Bourdieu focuses attention on the socio-political processes of production and reproduction of the perceptive structures that individuals and groups employ in their judgements and actions, Fromm fruitfully extends wider to include the links between perceptive and sociopolitical structures, on the one hand, and the innate structures of the human psyche, on the other hand. Substantively, moreover, Bourdieu tends to exclude physically violent forms of domination from his account of the material effects of symbolic constructs, whilst Fromm consistently places them centre stage. Indeed, Fromm’s analytic operations and foci combine to offer a firm rebuttal to Bourdieu’s curiously ahistorical contention that psychoanalysis concerns itself exclusively with the individual and always in line with some version of psychologistic determinism, thereby serving as an apologia for the abuses subjects suffer under the established order.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://jcs.sagepub.com/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2011 The Author |
| Divisions: | Social Policy |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HX Socialism. Communism. Anarchism |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Oct 2015 15:27 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 00:03 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/63927 |
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