Crossing the psycho-social divide : Freud, Weber, Adorno and Elias / George Cavalletto.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Civilization and the psyche: opposing psycho-social paradigms in Sigmund Freuds writings on civilization -- Civilization as a social fact imposed on the psyche -- Backdating The future of an illusion -- The social psychism -- The mediation of the psyche in social action : psychological conceptualization in Max Weber's sociological writings -- "'Objectivity' in social science and social policy" and the critique of psychologism -- The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism and the psychology of religiously inspired social action -- Weber's later methodological writings and three types of psychology -- Weber's use of verstehende psychology in The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism -- Power and the psyche : Theodor Adorno's first examination of the authoritarian personality -- "The psychological technique of Martin Luther Thomas' radio addresses" -- Retrospective : the Thomas manuscript as viewed by Adorno's "Scientific experiences of a European scholar in America" -- The psycho-social dialectic of Adorno's analysis of Thomas' broadcasts -- The historical psyche : Norbert Elias's historical social psychology -- The genesis of Elias's concept of the historical psyche -- Psychology and history in the diverse parts of The civilizing process -- The decivilized psyche, fremdzwänge and the constitution of human drives -- The civilizing of the psyche, social competition and social.

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Scholars are increasingly challenging the view that the psyche and the social are so disparate that their study requires incompatible analytical and theoretical approaches. In this innovative work, George Cavalletto uses key texts by Sigmund Freud, Max Weber, Theodor Adorno and Norbert Elias to show that they crossed the psycho-social divide in ways that can help contemporary scholars to understand the interconnection of these two domains.

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