Fantasy and Social Movements

James S. Ormrod is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Brighton, UK. His research focuses on social movements and psychosocial theory, and on the relationship humans have with their environment and with the universe more generally. He is co-author, with Peter Dickens, of Cosmic Society: Towards a Sociology of the Universe.

Introduction: Fantasy and Social Movements in Context PART I: FANTASY, REALITY, THE UNCONSCIOUS, ACTION, AND THE COLLECTIVE Introduction to Part I 1. Fantasy in Freudian Theory 2. Fantasy in Kleinian Theory 3. Fantasy in Lacanian Theory 4. Modes of Fantasy PART II: FANTASE AND SOCIAL MOVEMENT THEORY Introduction to Part II 5. Social Movement Theory and Types of Action 6. Smelser's Theory of Collective Behaviour 7. A Typology of Social Movements PART III: A CASE STUDY OF THE PRO-SPACE MOVEMENT AND FANTASY Introduction to Part II 8. Fantasy in the Pro-Space Movement 9. The Pro-Space Movement and Social Structure 10. The Pro-Space Movement and Ideology 11. The Pro-Space Movement and Political Organization