Marx and Freud in Latin America Politics, Psychoanalysis, and Religion in Times of Terror

Name: Marx and Freud in Latin America Politics, Psychoanalysis, and Religion in Times of Terror
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ISBN: 9781844677559

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Edition: 2012

Authors: Bruno Bosteels

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Marx and Freud in Latin America seeks to reassess the timeless relevance of the work of Marx and Freud for Latin America, based on the premise that Marxism and psychoanalysis are neither philosophical doctrines nor positivist sciences but rather intervening doctrines of the subject, in political and clinical-affective situations. After going over the possible reasons for Marx and Freudâs own missed encounter with the realities of Latin America, the book presents ten studies to argue that art and literatureâthe novel, poetry, theater, filmâperhaps more so than the militant tract or the theoretical essay provide a symptomatic site for the investigation of such processes of…

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List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 8/21/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.20" wide x 9.20" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.144

Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the Ecole normale superieure and the College international de philosphie in Paris.



Acknowledgments


Preface



Martï¿½ and Marx



Marxism and Melodrama



On the Subject of the Dialectic



Can the New Man Speak?



Politics, Psychoanalysis, and Religion in Times of Terror



The Melancholy Left



In the Shadow of Mao



Between Freud and a Naked Woman



The Post-Leninist Detective



From Complot to Potlatch


Epilogue: Ethics of Liberation or Liberation from Ethics?


Sources


Index