Psychic Life of Power Theories in Subjection

Name: Psychic Life of Power Theories in Subjection
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ISBN: 9780804728126

ISBN-10: 0804728127

ISBN-13: 9780804728126

Edition: 1997

Authors: Judith Butler

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Drawing upon Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault and Althusser, the author of Bodies that Matter and Feminism and the Subversion of Identity offers a theory of subject formation that illuminates as ambivalent the psychic effects of social power.

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 5/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.99" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and the Co-director of the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. She is presently the recipient of the Andrew Mellon Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in the Humanities.



Introduction



Stubborn Attachment, Bodily Subjection: Rereading Hegel on the Unhappy Consciousness



Circuits of Bad Conscience: Nietzsche and Freud



Subjection, Resistance, Resignification: Between Freud and Foucault



"Conscience Doth Make Subjects of Us All": Althusser's Subjection



Melancholy Gender/Refused Identification: Keeping It Moving


Commentary on Judith Butler



Reply to Adam Phillips



Psychic Inceptions: Melancholy, Ambivalence, Rage


Notes


Index