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Preface by Daniel Lagache

Foreword to the Second Edition

Preliminary Remarks

Part One

The Social Representation of Psychoanalysis

Findings of Survey and Theoretical Analysis

Chapter One Social Representation: A Lost Concept

1 Miniatures of Behaviour, Copies of Reality and Forms of Knowledge

2 Philosophies of Indirect Experience

3 In What Sense is a Representation Social?

Chapter Two Psychoanalysis as She is Spoken

1 The Presence of Psychoanalysis

2 The Taboo on Communications and the Attractions of Ignorance

Chapter Three Ideas That Become Common-Sense Objects

1 Objectification

2 From Theory to Social Representation

3 The Materialisation of Concepts

Chapter Four 'Homo Psychanalyticus'

1 Classifying and Naming

2 The Internal Boundary Between the Normal and the Pathological

3 Who Needs Psychoanalysis?

Chapter Five A Marginal Hero

1 The Psychoanalyst: Magician or Psychiatrist?

2 Social Relations and Role-Playing

3 How the Audience sees the Actor

Chapter Six The Psychoanalysis of Everyday Life

1 Description of the Second Major Process: Anchoring

2 Current activities courante and Analytic Therapy

3 Self-Analysts

Chapter Seven A Freud for All Seasons

1 The Need for Analysis

2 The Extent of Psychoanalysis's domains of application

3 Does Psychoanalysis Work?

Chapter Eight Ideologies and Their Discontents

1 Psychoanalysis, Religion and Politics

2 The Values of Private Life

Chapter Nine Of Jargon in General and Franco-Analytic Jargon in Particular

1 Language and Languages in Conflict

2 Speech Becomes a Reality

Chapter Ten Natural Thought: Observation Made In the Course of Interviews

1 Phenomenological Remarks

2 The Style of Natural Thought

3 Two Principles of Intellectual Organisation

4 The Collective Intellect: Tower of Babel or Well-Ordered Diversity?

Part Two

Psychoanalysis and the French Press

Content Analysis and Analysis of Systems of Communication

Chapter One The Press: Overview

1 Who Talks about Psychoanalysis?

2 The Many Faces of Psychoanalysis

3 Attitudes, Groups and Ideological Orientations

Chapter Two The Diffusion of Psychoanalysis

1 First Descriptions

2 Rhetoric to the Fore

3 Language, The Fiction of Communication and impregnation

4 Overview

Chapter Three The Encounter Between Religious Dogma and

Psychoanalytic Principles

1 Propagation: Its Characteristics and Its Domain

2 The Assimilation and Adaptation of Profane Notions

3 In Search of a Catholic Conception of Psychoanalysis

Chapter Four The Communist Party Meets a Science that is Very Popular and Non-Marxist

1 Theoretical Perspectives

2 What Can We Expect to Read in a Communist or Progressive Publication?

3 What Anti-Psychoanalytic Propaganda Are We Talking About?

Chapter Five A Psychosociological Analysis of Propaganda

1 The Functions of Propaganda

2 Cognitive Aspects and Representation in Propaganda

3 Representation As a Tool for Action

4 Language and Action

5 Final Observations

Fifteen Years Later

Chapter Six A Hypothesis

Afterword

Appendix

Bibliography