Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Families
- INTRO
- family is most important institution
- Resp for dev and happiness of indivs
- most researched from PSP persp and findings over-generalised
- mothers frequently blamed for 'failures' of children
- marriage seen as normative
- single women/gays 'pathologised'
- findings viewed 'universally'
and diffs between families
ironed out - marginalised
members rendered invisible
- MAINSTREAM CRITIQUE
- WILLIAMS (2004)
- 'networks of affection'
- Sutton (2004)
- 'family reunion rituals'
- knowledge about families is
thus situated within cultural
power relations - the
indiv/social dualism is not a
useful one
- De-trad family forms
- Morrow (1998)
- 'quality of relationships'
- Cicerilli (1994)
- 'fluid boundaries'
- However.. normative
ideologies about
heterosexual married
coupled families still
dominate
- DISCURSIVE
- Singleness
- Reynolds & Wetherell (2003)
- Annie (positive)
- Lyn (negative)
- Therefore... singleness
needs studying from the
point of view that it
consists of personal
narratives and subject
positions
- 'repertoires of choice'
- Domestic division of labour
- Thompson (1991)
- 'distributive justice framework'
- Caroline Dryden (1999)
- 'Rachael' - division of housework'
- Unequal gender relations
are deeply embedded
within cultural ideologies -
rather than seeing this
inequity, women take up
positions of gratitude
- Discourses of power inequities are brought
to meaning in everyday practices and
mainstream research methods are unable to
capture them through methods such as the
'distributive justice framework' questionnaires
- Social psychoanalytic
- Bank & Kahn (1982)
- Oedipus complex
- Mitchell (2000)
- 'siblings bonds - no
intrinsic value of
own'
- Prophesy Coles (2003)
- 'bit part actors'
- Mitchell (2003)
- 'construction of ego'
- Siblings are often major
object-elements in early life
- so the idea siblings are
introjected and become part
of the self suggests siblings
play a central role in the
development of the self
- Lucey et al (2006)
- 5 Muslim Sisters
- Hence, the powerful unconscious
world of splitting, desires and
imaginings as well as invested
positions within social and culture
discourses all have an impact on
family relationships
- The psychoanalytic view of us being
unconsciously defended challenges
to what extent we can ever be
completely autonomous.
- CONCLUSION
- common ground in
research perspectives of
DP and psychoanalyic
approaches (both SSP)
- both explore place of
families in the
construction of
identities
- Unlike PSP
(mainstream)
they do not draw
a clear boundary
between what
happens inside a
family and wider
society