Psychologization: psychoanalysis' (double) political appointment with history - the Accoyer Amendment revisited

De Vos, Jan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9659-504X 2006. Psychologization: psychoanalysis' (double) political appointment with history - the Accoyer Amendment revisited. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society 11 (3) , pp. 304-322. 10.1057/palgrave.pcs.2100081

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Abstract

Pseudo-activity was Žižek's harsh judgment of JA Miller, who led the opposition against the French amendment Accoyer. Is the French “furor agitandi”, which denounces out loud what they see as “Lacanian-bashing”, a fight in the wrong arena? The buzz indeed seems to serve to cover up the socio-political dimension, and this becomes clear when one discerns the social forces that lie behind the amendment: psychologization and psychiatrization, the perfect partners of post-politics. What threatens psychoanalysis is not an anti-psychological discourse, but on the contrary psychological discourse as such. The French resistance seems to have missed this political appointment with its Golem. This leads to the question: do the current events point to another missed moment, that of Freud missing the political meeting with modernity?

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
ISSN:	1088-0763
Last Modified:	09 Nov 2022 10:16
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/138879

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