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Psychoanalytic-Marxism

Author : Eugene Victor Wolfenstein
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9780898625905
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalytic-Marxism written by Eugene Victor Wolfenstein and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1993-03-05 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important new work, Eugene Victor Wolfenstein rejects the reduction of psychoanalysis to conformist psychology and Marxism to Stalinist orthodoxy. Instead, he illuminates the critical and emancipatory force of both traditions. He persuasively argues for a ``binocular'' view that integrates interests rooted in work and economic production with desires based in emotional life and human reproduction. Without obscuring the obvious differences between psychoanalytic and Marxist theories, his integrative approach provides the reader with a clearer, more complete understanding of modern society. The book opens with a review of the work of Marx and Freud, the classical Freudian-Marxists (Reich, Fromm and Marcuse) and such recent thinkers as Habermas, Benjamin, Kovel, and Lichtman. Wolfenstein then develops the foundation for a psychoanalytic-marxist theory and practice. He reconceptualizes praxis and dialectics, and history and human nature, and presents a framework for social analysis. The book's final section utilizes these grounding notions for the analysis of class, gender, and race; psychoanalytic practice; and political practice (the modern state and its potential transformation). Written in a bold and unusually lucid style, PSYCHOANALYTIC- MARXISM will serve as a benchmark for all further reflection on this topic. It offers fresh insights for those with an interest in psychoanalysis, Marxism, and a broad range of related concerns: philosophy, the modernism/postmodernism debates, feminist theory, African-American studies, critical social theory, political theory, history, and sociology.

Freud and the Politics of Psychoanalysis

Author : Jose Brunner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351310747
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Freud and the Politics of Psychoanalysis written by Jose Brunner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freud and the Politics of Psychoanalysis is a sympathetic critique of Freud's work, tracing its political content and context from his early writings on hysteria to his late essays on civilization and religion. Brunner's central claim is that politics is a pervasive and essential component of all of Freud's discourse, since Freud viewed both the psyche and society primarily as constellations of power and domination. Brunner shows that when read politically, Freud's discourse can be seen to unite mechanics and meaning into a plausible, fruitful and internally consistent theory of the mind, therapy, family and society.Part one deals with the medical and political background of Freud's work. It explains how Freud postulated mental principles that were the same for all races and nations. The second part is concerned with the logic and language of Freud's theory of the mind. Brunner also details how Freud introduced dynamics of dominance and subjugation into the very core of the psyche. Part three addresses dynamics of power in the clinical setting, which Freud forged out of a curious blend of authoritarian and liberal elements. Brunner focuses on how this setting creates an arena for verbal politics. He also examines various social factors that influenced the therapeutic practice of psychoanalysis, such as class, gender and education. Part four explores Freud's analysis of the family and large-scale social institutions. Though Brunner is critical of the authoritarian bias in Freud's social theory, he suggests that it provides a useful vocabulary to unmask hidden psychological aspects of domination and subjection. This is an essential book for those interested in the history of ideas and psychoanalysis.Josu Brunner is Senior Lecturer at the Buchmann Faculty of Law and the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, both at Tel Aviv University. Born in Zorich, Switzerland, he has been living in Israel for most of the last three decades. He is author of numerous publications on the history and politics of psychoanalysis and contemporary political theory.

Writings on Psychoanalysis

Author : Louis Althusser
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231101691
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Writings on Psychoanalysis written by Louis Althusser and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of some of Louis Althusser's major essays on psychoanalytic thought documents his relationship with Jacques Lacan and presents aspects of his personal and intellectual life

The Mass Psychology of Fascism

Author : Wilhelm Reich
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374203644
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Mass Psychology of Fascism written by Wilhelm Reich and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1970 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic study, Reich repudiates the concept that fascism is the ideology or action of a single individual or nationality, or of any ethnic or political group. Instead he sees fascism as the expression of the irrational character structure of the average human being whose whose primary biological needs and impulses have been suppressed for thousands of years.

Capitalism and Desire

Author : Todd McGowan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231542216
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Capitalism and Desire written by Todd McGowan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders—but not because of what it withholds from some and gives to others. Capitalism dominates, Todd McGowan argues, because it mimics the structure of our desire while hiding the trauma that the system inflicts upon it. People from all backgrounds enjoy what capitalism provides, but at the same time are told more and better is yet to come. Capitalism traps us through an incomplete satisfaction that compels us after the new, the better, and the more. Capitalism's parasitic relationship to our desires gives it the illusion of corresponding to our natural impulses, which is how capitalism's defenders characterize it. By understanding this psychic strategy, McGowan hopes to divest us of our addiction to capitalist enrichment and help us rediscover enjoyment as we actually experienced it. By locating it in the present, McGowan frees us from our attachment to a better future and the belief that capitalism is an essential outgrowth of human nature. From this perspective, our economic, social, and political worlds open up to real political change. Eloquent and enlivened by examples from film, television, consumer culture, and everyday life, Capitalism and Desire brings a new, psychoanalytically grounded approach to political and social theory.

German Essays on Psychology

Author : Wolfgang Schirmacher
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826412379
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book German Essays on Psychology written by Wolfgang Schirmacher and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 62 of this ground-breaking 100 volume collection is organized into four sections: Psychology as Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Its Critics, Research in Gestalt Psychology, and The Iconoclasts. A showcase of German-psychological thinkers and thought through the 20th century, this volume includes several new translations of articles by pyschologists whose work is rarely available in English.

Jameson, Althusser, Marx (RLE Marxism)

Author : William C. Dowling
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000156060
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Jameson, Althusser, Marx (RLE Marxism) written by William C. Dowling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-26 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederic Jameson is widely regarded as one of the most original and influential Marxist critics of the last decades. His most controversial work, The Political Unconscious, had an enormous impact on literary criticism and cultural studies. In Jameson, Althusser, Marx, first published in 1984, Professor Dowling sets out to provide the intellectual background needed for an understanding of Jameson’s argument and its broader implications. He elucidates the unspoken assumptions that are the foundation of Jameson’s thought – assumptions about how the nature of language, of interpretation and of culture – and shows how Jameson attempts to subsume in an expanded Marxism the critical theories of Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Lacan and of structuralism and poststructuralism in general. This lively, concise book will be welcomed by anyone interested in current theoretical debates, in Marxist criticism, and in the wide-ranging implications of Marxist cultural theory for the social sciences, the arts and the study of history.

Postponing the Postmodern

Author : Ben Agger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742519206
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Postponing the Postmodern written by Ben Agger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are not yet at a moment that could be called postmodernity, and may never be, says leading sociologist Ben Agger in his newest book. Modernity is still our history, our framework. Nevertheless, Agger shows how postmodern theory can enhance understanding of the self, everyday life, and culture in the early 21st century. Changes in culture, commerce, and communications, such as the internet, require 'postmodern' modes of knowing. Agger borrows from French postmodern theory and from the Frankfurt School's critical theory in addressing the utility and shortcomings of postmodern theory for understanding identity, culture, race, gender, and power. He explains postmodern theory clearly, borrowing creatively from postmodernism in order to theorize about daily life and social structures heavily reliant on information technologies like the internet and the Web.

Ideologies and the Corruption of Thought

Author : Joseph Gabel
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412825825
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Ideologies and the Corruption of Thought written by Joseph Gabel and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-five years ago Joseph Gabel pubÂlished a modern masterpiece, which in 1975 appeared in English as False ConÂsciousness: An Essay on Reificalion . Combining his special knowledge of existential psychiatry, axiology, MarxÂism, and political history, Gabel proÂposed the utterly novel idea that victims of serious mental disturbances (espeÂcially paranoia and schizophrenia) reÂproduce those distorted thought patÂterns commonly associated with ideoÂlogical beliefs at the collective level. Such beliefs initially had been laid bare in the 1920s by Gabel's intellectual progenitors, Karl Mannheim and George Lukacs. Gabel's remarkable innovation was to transfer the private crisis of mental collapse into the analytic frameÂwork previously reserved for ideological critique, making him an expert on what was later called "the micro-macro probÂlem." Ideologies and the Corruption of Thought includes Gabel's essays over the last 40 years, characteristically treating micro and macro theoretical matters simultaneously. Originally writÂten in French and German, they have been recast in idiomatic English and bibliographically updated. Using a unique mode and vocabulary of analyÂsis, Gabel offers theoretical investigaÂtions of McCarthyism and Stalinism (original and more recent types), as well as Althusser, Orwell, and Jonathan Swift in his capacity as a psychiatric theorist. He also explores anti-Zionism, anti-Semitism, and a fascinating case study of a paranoid who regarded himÂself as the pope. In addition this volume includes a range of general commentarÂies on ideological "thought," utopianism, and false consciousness. This rich feast of social and political analysis and theory illuminates a range of contemporary concernsâracism, Utopian fantasy, ethnocentrism, anti-Semitism, the interplay of social strucÂture and mental illness, and ideological transformations of social lifeâwhich only Gabel's unique mixture of the cliniÂcal and the political could achieve. It will be studied with interest by all theoÂrists and politically alert readers in the social sciences, philosophy, and related fields of study.

Healing Identities

Author : Cynthia Burack
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501726692
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Healing Identities written by Cynthia Burack and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Group identifications famously pose the problem of destructive rhetoric and action against others. Cynthia Burack brings together the theory work of women of color and the tools of psychoanalysis to examine the effects of group collaborations for social justice and progressive politics. This juxtaposition illuminates some assumptions about race and equality encoded in psychoanalysis. Burack's discursive analysis suggests the positive, identity-affirming aspects of group relational life for African American women. One analytic response to groups emphasizes the dangers of these identifications and exhorts people to abandon or transcend them for their own good and for the good of others who may be harmed by group-based forms of cultural or material violence. Another response understands that people feel a need for group identifications and asks how they may be made more resistant to malignant group-based discourse and action. What can black feminist thought teach scholars and democratic citizens about groups? Burack shows how the rhetoric of black feminism models reparative, rather than destructive, forms of group dialogue and action. Although it may be impossible to eliminate group identifications that provide much of the impetus for bias and violence, she argues, we can encourage more progressive forms of leadership, solidarity, and coalition politics.

Jewish Exiles’ Psychological Interpretations of Nazism

Author : Avihu Zakai
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030540707
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Exiles’ Psychological Interpretations of Nazism written by Avihu Zakai and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines works of four German-Jewish scholars who, in their places of exile, sought to probe the pathology of the Nazi mind: Wilhelm Reich’s The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), Erich Fromm’s Escape from Freedom (1941), Siegfried Kracauer’s From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film (1947), and Erich Neumann’s Depth Psychology and a New Ethic (1949). While scholars have examined these authors’ individual legacies, no comparative analysis of their shared concerns has yet been undertaken, nor have the content and form of their psychological inquiries into Nazism been seriously and systematically analyzed. Yet, the sense of urgency in their works calls for attention. They all took up their pens to counter Nazi barbarism, believing, like the English jurist and judge Sir William Blackstone, who wrote in 1753 - scribere est agere ("to write is to act").

The Victims of Democracy

Author : Eugene Victor Wolfenstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520332091
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Victims of Democracy written by Eugene Victor Wolfenstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.

Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism

Author : Ian H. Angus
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793640912
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism written by Ian H. Angus and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism: Crisis, Body, World, Ian H. Angus investigates the crisis of reason in a contemporary context. Beginning with Edmund Husserl’s The Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Angus connects the phenomenology of human motility to Marx’s ontology of labor in Capital and shows its basis in natural fecundity (excess). He argues that the formalization of reason creates an inability to foster differentiated community as expected by both Husserl and Marx and that the formalization of human motility by the regime of value reveals the ontological productivity of natural fecundity, showing that ecology is the contemporary exemplary science. Addressing the crisis requires a philosophy of technology (especially digital technology) and a dialogue between cultural-civilizational lifeworlds, which surpasses Husserl’s assumption that Europe is the home of reason. Angus’s overall conception of phenomenology is Socratic in that it is concerned with the presuppositions and applications of knowledge-forms in their lifeworld grounding. He further shows that the contemporary event is the epochal confrontation between planetary technology and place-based Indigeneity. This book lays out the fundamental concepts of a systematic phenomenological Marxian philosophy.

Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought

Author : Bob Jessop
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415193306
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought written by Bob Jessop and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

From Ah Q to Lei Feng

Author : Wendy Larson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804769826
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book From Ah Q to Lei Feng written by Wendy Larson and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Freudian sexual theory hit China in the early 20th century, it ran up against competing models of the mind from both Chinese tradition and the new revolutionary culture. Chinese theorists of the mind—both traditional intellectuals and revolutionary psychologists— steadily put forward the anti-Freud: a mind shaped not by deep interiority that must be excavated by professionals, but shaped instead by social and cultural interactions. Chinese novelists and film directors understood this focus and its relationship to Mao's revolutionary ethos, and much of the literature of twentieth-century China reflects the spiritual qualities of the revolutionary mind. From Ah Q to Lei Feng investigates the continual clash of these contrasting models of the mind provided by Freud and revolutionary Chinese culture, and explores how writers and filmmakers negotiated with the implications of each model. .

Marxism and the Critique of Value

Author : Neil Larsen
Publisher : MCM'
ISBN 13 : 9780989549707
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Marxism and the Critique of Value written by Neil Larsen and published by MCM'. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marxism and the Critique of Value aims to complete the critique of the value-form that was initiated by Marx. While Marx's "esoteric" critique of value has been rediscovered from time to time by post-Marxists who know they've found something interesting but don't quite know which end is the handle, Anglophone Marxism has tended to bury this esoteric critique beneath a more redistributionist understanding of Marx. The essays in this volume attempt to think the critique of value through to the end, and to draw out its implications for the current economic crisis; for violence, Islamism, gender relations, masculinity, and the concept of class; for revolutionary practice and agency; for the role of the state and the future of the commons; for the concepts that come down to us from Enlightenment thought: indeed, for the manifold phenomena that characterize contemporary society under a capitalism in crisis.

Secrets of the Soul

Author : Eli Zaretsky
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400079233
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secrets of the Soul written by Eli Zaretsky and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2005-08-09 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fledgling science of psychoanalysis permanently altered the nineteenth-century worldview with its remarkable new insights into human behavior and motivation. It quickly became a benchmark for modernity in the twentieth century--though its durability in the twenty-first may now be in doubt. More than a hundred years after the publication of Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams, we’re no longer in thrall, says cultural historian Eli Zaretsky, to the “romance” of psychotherapy and the authority of the analyst. Only now do we have enough perspective to assess the successes and shortcomings of psychoanalysis, from its late-Victorian Era beginnings to today’s age of psychopharmacology. In Secrets of the Soul, Zaretsky charts the divergent schools in the psychoanalytic community and how they evolved–sometimes under pressure–from sexism to feminism, from homophobia to acceptance of diversity, from social control to personal emancipation. From Freud to Zoloft, Zaretsky tells the story of what may be the most intimate science of all.