La sociologie clinique entre psychanalyse et socioanalyse

• Main Author: Vincent de Gaulejac
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française 2008-04-01
• Series: Sociologies
• Subjects: Bourdieu; sociologie clinique; psychanalyse; socioanalyse; Freud
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/sociologies/1713

Clinical sociology between psychoanalysis and socioanalysisThe introduction of the clinical approach in sociology lead us to reconsider the differencies and complementarities between psychoanalysis and sociology on three aspects: their way of taking into account the unconscious; the relative weight of social and psychic predeterminations; the work that can be done by somebody on his/her own history in order to modify its course. Those questions have been largely debated. The purpose of this article is to compare on those topics the positions of Sigmund Freud and Pierre Bourdieu. Both develop theories which include a conception of man in society supported by a change practice. The interest of this confrontation come from the difference of their starting points: while Sigmund Freud is looking inside the psychic dimension, Pierre Bourdieu is more concerned with the interiorization of social structures. Coming from separate perspectives and approach, they still reach some common positions, and this help us defining new methodological frames inspired by both psychoanalysis and socioalanysis.