Strategic self-marginalization: the case of psychoanalysis.
Marginality is an important concept in the history of science, though it is often used in a manner that presumes marginality to be a static designation. We contend that the dynamics of marginality are crucial to the history of psychoanalysis, a discipline that has moved between dominant and marginal positions. We address psychoanalytic marginality via three specific "cases": the marginalization among Freud and his followers when psychoanalysis was an emergent discipline; the marginality trope in Erich Fromm's popular psychoanalytic writing when psychoanalysis was orthodoxy in American academic psychiatry; and the rhetorical marginality of psychoanalysis in Sweden as psychoanalysis entered a decline within psychiatry. Our aim is to show that marginalization and self-marginalization serve interpersonal, social, and professional strategies.
University of Utrecht, Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science, The Netherlands. j.c.bos@fss.uu.nl
Jaap
J
Bos
David W
DW
Park
Petteri
P
Pietikainen
D005619:Freudian Theory / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history*; D012649:Self Concept; D012922:Social Change; D012934:Social Isolation / Q000523:psychology*; D012961:Sociology / Q000266:history; D013548:Sweden; D014481:United States