نماد‌ها و نمادگرایی فارسی 1402

In On Symbolism and The Work of Freud, Durkheim, and Mauss, Éric Smadja returns to the end of the 19th century and explores how the concepts of symbolism and symbolization have been discussed among theorists, and how this discussion has developed and revolutionized the human sciences as we know them today. Uniquely, he connects three critical thinkers of psychoanalysis, sociology, and ethnology – Freud, Durkheim, and Mauss – and discusses how their diverse epistemological paths blend and have consequently shaped our representation of humanity, society, and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. In this innovative work, Smadja provides a complete biographical journey of these three influential founders, beginning with a dedicated chapter on Freud, followed by Durkheim and then Mauss. He explains each of their revolutionary creations – Freud’s psychoanalysis, Durkheim’s French school of sociology, and Mauss’s modern French ethnology – before exploring their ground-breaking, yet differing, conceptions of symbolism and symbolization, offering a discussion of specific and common aspects detected between these conceptions. In his conclusions, Smadja focuses on France to examine what became of their thoughts after the second half of the 20th century. He inspects the fields of French anthropology, sociology, and Lévi-Strauss and his structuralist revolution, his colleagues Françoise Héritier and Maurice Godelier, Pierre Bourdieu, who was an ethnologist before becoming a sociologist, and, of course, Lacan. Symbolism and The Work of Freud, Durkheim, and Mauss are pioneering works that will appeal to psychoanalysts in practice and training, academics, and students of psychology, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and the history of ideas. It will also interest anyone wanting to learn more about the life and work of these three major theorists and the connections between the human and social sciences.