The following sources were taken from a post on Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society List. I don't have any of the references, and haven't had time to get to a research library this semester, but I thought some of you might like to look them up before I get to them, since they seem to provide some conceptual linking for ethnographic fieldwork, the "other" and the crisis of the subject, and the psychoanalytic approach.

Ethnographic fieldwork is one way to describe what we do in the Dear Habermas community, except that Susan and I have tried to adapt the methodology to self-reflexive discourse on the actual process of community creation. I'm not sure that qualifies as enthnographic fieldwork, but it certainly is conceptually related.

Our concerns with identification of the "other" and self-recognition of exploitation through the eradication of agency within bureaucratic institutions would perhaps be enriched by Bowman's treatment of "Implications of the Crisis of the Subject."

From Glenn Bowman's post to the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society List on Sunday, December 16, 2001:

"I am a social anthropologist based in the UK who works with issues concerning analogies between ethnographic fieldwork and psycholanalysis [S]ee my:

• 1997. "Making Space for 'the Other': on the Implications of the Crisis of the Subject for Anthropological Discourse." Anthropological Journal on European Cultures VI: 107-26 and

• 1998. "Radical Empiricism: Anthropological Fieldwork after Psychoanalysis and the Année Sociologique". Anthropological Journal on European Cultures (special issue: Reflecting Cultural Practice: The Challenge of Fieldwork) VI: 79-107
  . . . also in Angerer and Krips, 2001, Der andere Schauplatz: Psychoanalyse/Kultur/Medien)."

  Glenn Bowman, Senior Lecturer
  Reviews Editor
  Anthropological Theory
  Department of Anthropology
  Eliot College
  University of Kent
  Canterbury CT2 7NS

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