The psychoanalytical cure according to Basil Bernstein

Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 2007

Multilingua - Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2000

This article constitutes a re-reading of and an attempt to rehabilitate Basil Bernstein, both of which are important in light of the interpretation of Bernstein as a proponent of the verbal deficit view, and the general discrediting of his work on social class differences in the British educational system, as related to what he later called 'codes', by scholars like Jensen (1968) and , in particular. Exploring whether the international criticism of Bernstein was justified entails both an analysis of articles written by and and by Bernstein, notably 'Language and social class' and 'A critique of the concept of compensatory education', both published in the first volume of Class, codes and control (Bernstein 1971). The article argues for the importance of contextualising Bernstein's thoughts on language and society within the socio-political climate framing his scholarship and the development of his ideas as a whole. We show that much of the interpretation of Bernstein is, in fact, a misinterpretation, for which Bernstein was only partly at fault. By rehabilitating some of Bernstein's ideas, it is possible to argue for their relevance today, especially with reference to salient connections between socio-cultural background and performance at school. Furthermore, Labov and Bernstein may not have been so far apart in their thinking as has previously been assumed.

Since its first appearance, I've changed the title of this compilation so as to better reflect the bulk of the literature gathered together here. In no way should this change be seen as an attempt to diminish Freud's singular contribution to the creation of psychoanalytic psychology and therapy. I have also added to the introduction.) * * * Some of the titles here are not, strictly speaking, of Freudian provenance or a post-Freudian orientation, and others are quite critical, for example, of Freudian psychology, this or that aspect of what we might call Freud's philosophy of mind, his understanding of morality, his conception of human nature, or his later and more speculative or ambitious works (e.g., The Future of an Illusion, Civilization and Its Discontents, and Moses and Monotheism). I've included them because I believe they make points worthy of consideration by anyone committed, such as yours truly, to what is viewed as the undeniable value of psychoanalytic psychology and therapy. With regard to a Abramson, Jeffrey B. Liberation and Its Limits: The Moral and Political Thought of Freud.

2012

In this paper I sketch a reconstruction of the basic psychoanalytic conception of the mind in terms of two historical resources: the conception of the subject developed in post-Kantian idealism, and Spinoza's laws of the affects in Part Three of the Ethics. The former, I suggest, supplies the conceptual basis for the psychoanalytic notion of the unconscious, problem, however, is that psychoanalysis is not consistently Kantian, either, and that its ambiguity cannot be resolved in either the one direction or the other. This should not, I have urged, be made an objection to psychoanalysis. But if correct, it means that psychoanalysis does not offer a philosophically safe home for Kant's 'I ought' to the extent that Longuenesse supposes.

2012

This article constitutes a re-reading of and an attempt to rehabilitate Basil Bernstein, both of which are important in light of the interpretation of Bernstein as a proponent of the verbal deficit view, and the general discrediting of his work on social class differences in the British educational system, as related to what he later called 'codes', by scholars like Jensen (1968) and , in particular. Exploring whether the international criticism of Bernstein was justified entails both an analysis of articles written by and and by Bernstein, notably 'Language and social class' and 'A critique of the concept of compensatory education', both published in the first volume of Class, codes and control (Bernstein 1971). The article argues for the importance of contextualising Bernstein's thoughts on language and society within the socio-political climate framing his scholarship and the development of his ideas as a whole. We show that much of the interpretation of Bernstein is, in fact, a misinterpretation, for which Bernstein was only partly at fault. By rehabilitating some of Bernstein's ideas, it is possible to argue for their relevance today, especially with reference to salient connections between socio-cultural background and performance at school. Furthermore, Labov and Bernstein may not have been so far apart in their thinking as has previously been assumed.

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