Enjoying What We Don't Have The Political Project of Psychoanalysis

Name: Enjoying What We Don't Have The Political Project of Psychoanalysis
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ISBN: 9780803245112

ISBN-10: 0803245114

ISBN-13: 9780803245112

Edition: 2013

Authors: Todd McGowan

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Although there have been many attempts to apply the ideas of psychoanalysis to political thought, this book is the first to identify the political project inherent in the fundamental tenets of psychoanalysis. And this political project, Todd McGowan contends, provides an avenue for emancipatory politics after the failure of Marxism in the twentieth century.Where others seeking the political import of psychoanalysis have looked to Freud’s early work on sexuality, McGowan focuses on Freud’s discovery of the death drive and Jacques Lacan’s elaboration of this concept. He argues that the self-destruction occurring as a result of the death drive is the foundational act of emancipation around…

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List price: $60.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 7/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 364
Size: 6.01" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Todd McGowan is associate professor of English at the University of Vermont.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Psychoanalytic Hostility to Politics



Subjectivity



The Formation of Subjectivity



The Economics of the Drive



lass Status and Enjoyment



Sustaining Anxiety



Changing the World



Society



The Appeal of Sacrifice



Against Knowledge



The Politics of Fantasy



Beyond Bare Life



The Necessity of Belief



The Case of the Missing Signifier


Conclusion: A Society of the Death Drive


Notes


Index