Ethnography and psychoanalysis

• Authors: Geoffrey R. Skoll
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This methodological essay describes and advocates using certain psychoanalytic techniques for ethnography. It focuses on the self analysis of the ethnographer using evenly hovering attention, dream analysis, and free association. It presents an argument that using those techniques enhances the goal of ethnography as a human science and of social research. Fear of crime serves as a point of departure for the methodological argument. Finally, it links psychoanalytic ethnography to a fractal model of society and the self with reference to C. S. Peirce’s theory of semiotics as a link between the individual and society.

Keywords

EN

ethnography; psychoanalysis; fear of crime; fractals; semiotics; urban

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human and Social Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 29-50

Dates

published

2012-10-01

online

2012-11-09

Contributors

author

Geoffrey R. Skoll

• Criminal Justice Department, Buffalo State College, Buffalo Ny 14222

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10317-012-0003-4