Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 07:38:19 -0500
From: Robert Maxwell Young <robert-AT-rmy1.demon.co.uk>
Subject: M-PSY: More on-line writings plus information about distance learning programmes at


In addition to the articles I mentioned in my posting of 17 October, I have
recently placed a number of essays at my web site. I list them below, along
with others which I hope may be found relevant to the project of creating a
marxist psychology.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/N-Q/psysc/staff/rmyoung/index.html
All are critiques of reificatin and reductionism in psychology and the
human sciences and in relatin to the biological aspects of human nature.
All were written from a Marxist point of view.
 They are available for reading online or downloading.
 Comments welcome.
'Braverman's _Labour and Monopoly Capital_'
'Science _is_ Social Relations'
'Why Are Figures so Significant? The Role and the Critique
          of Quantification'
'Science Is a Labour Process'
'How Societies Constitute their Knowledge:
           Prolegomena to a Labour Process Perspective'
'Interpreting the Production of Science'
'What if Human Nature Is Historical?' (an extended rumination on
        the idea of a marxist  psychology)
'Biography: The Basic Discipline for Human Science'
'Racist Society, Racist Science'
'Psychoanalysis and Racism: A Loud Silence'
'Darwin, Marx, Freud and the Foundations of the Human
          Sciences'       
'Persons, Organisms and...Primary Qualities'
'The Role of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in the
          Human Sciences'
'Scientism in the History of Management Theory'
'British Psychoanalysis and Politics'
'Psychotic Anxieties and the Fading Hopes of the Left'
'Racism: Projective Identification and Cultural Processes'
'Science, Ideology and Donna Haraway'
'The Psychoanalysis of Sectarianism'
'Whatever Happened to Human Nature?'
'Reductionism and Overdetermination in the Explanation of
          Human Nature'

Mentioned in 17 October posting:
'The Human Limits of Nature'
'The Naturalization of Value Systems in the Human Sciences'
'Freud: Scientist and/or Humanist'
'Postmodernism and thew Subject: Pessimism of the Will'
'Evolution, Biology and Psychology'
'The Moral and the Molecular in the Future of Psychiatry'
The chapter on 'The Historiographic and Ideological Contexts of the C19
Debate on "Man's Place in Nature"' in my _Darwin's Metaphor_ (also at web
site) is an attempt to develop a Marxist historiography of science.

The web site of the University of Sheffield Centre for Psychotherapeutic
Studies contains a major resource on mental health and the human sciences,
as well as search engines for references and information about all our
programmes of teaching and research, curriculim vitae and writings of our
staff and, in particular, details of new MA programmes **by distance
learning** (as well as being taught part-time or full-time on campus),
available from September 1997. Applications are still being accepted for
the distance learning programmes. http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/
'Psychiatry, Philosophy and Society'
'Psychoanalytic Studies'
'Disability Studies'

__________________________________________
Robert Maxwell Young:  robert-AT-rmy1.demon.co.uk  26 Freegrove Rd., London N7
9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306  fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of
Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic
Studies, University of  Sheffield. Home page and writings:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/
Process Press publications:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/process_press/index.html
 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.' - Camus




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