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The Hobbesian Microcosm: On the Dialectics of the Self in Social Theory *
Author(s) -
CARVETH Donald L.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
sociological inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.446
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1475-682X
pISSN - 0038-0245
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-682x.1977.tb00773.x
Subject(s) - dialectic , sociology , psychoanalytic theory , freudian slip , epistemology , social theory , psychoanalysis , critical theory , social science , philosophy , psychology
If Parsons is not guilty of holding an over‐socialized conception of man, Wrong's critique does apply to the work of the “reality‐constructionists” and “symbolic interactionists.” In underemphasizing Mead's “biologic individual” or “I,” contemporary sociological social psychology manages to evade the Hobbesian problem and, hence, amounts to a largely disembodied dialectic. By way of contrast, the compatibility of the Meadian and Freudian perspectives is stressed and the need for further development of a psychoanalytic sociology reaffirmed.