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Perversion and Utopia

Author : Joel Whitebook
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262731171
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Perversion and Utopia written by Joel Whitebook and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1996-10-31 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sweeping challenge to the postmodern critiques of psychoanalysis, Joel Whitebook argues for a reintegration of Freud's uncompromising investigation of the unconscious with the political and philosophical insights of critical theory. Perversion and Utopia follows in the tradition of Herbert Marcuse's Eros and Civilization and Paul Ricoeur's Freud and Philosophy. It expands on these books, however, because of the author's remarkable grasp not only of psychoanalytic studies but also of the contemporary critical climate; Whitebook, a philosopher and a psychoanalyst, writes with equal facility on both Habermas and Freud. A central thesis of Perversion and Utopia is that there is an essential affinity between the utopian impulse and the perverse impulse, in that both reflect a desire to bypass the reality principle that Freud claimed to define the human condition. The book explores the positive and negative aspects of the relationship between these impulses, which are ubiquitous features of human life, and the requirements of civilized social existence. Whitebook steers a course between orthodox psychoanalytic conservatism, which seeks simply to repress the perverse-utopian impulse in the name of social continuity and cohesion, and those forms of Freudo-Marxism, postmodernism, and psychoanalytic feminism that advocate its direct and full expression in the name of emancipation. While he demonstrates the limitations of the current textual approaches to Freud, especially those influenced by Lacan, Whitebook also enlists the lessons of psychoanalysis to counteract the excessive rationalism of the Habermasian brand of critical theory, thus making a substantial contribution to current discussions within critical theory itself. His analysis and interpretation of perversion, narcissism, sublimation, and ego bring new insight to these central and thorny issues in Freud, and his discussions of Adorno, Marcuse, Castoriadis, Habermas, Ricoeur, Lacan, and others are equally penetrating.

Five Lectures

Author : Herbert Marcuse
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Five Lectures written by Herbert Marcuse and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 1970 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This forceful and compact book summarizes the ideas that have brought to Herbert Marcuse his international reputation as one of the most perceptive analysts of advanced industrial society and made him a leading influence on the New Left. Originally delivered to student and scholarly audiences in New York, Frankfurt, and Berlin, these lectures deal with the forces of repression that our society continues to generate at the very point in time when it has developed the means for creating a non-repressive society..." - Back cover.

Freud and Utopia

Author : Mark Holowchak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780739168561
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Freud and Utopia written by Mark Holowchak and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Freud never makes utopia the subject of any one work, this book is an attempt to tease out Freud's notion of utopia through examination of his group-psychology works such as The Future of an Illusion, Civilization and Its Discontents, Why War? and On the Question of a Weltanschauung. Through tracing out three key blows to human narcissism through scientific advance, Holowchak shows the extent to which biological factors impact human psychology and influence the prospect of future human happiness--the triumph of ego over id. The lure of utopian thinking for Freud is its dependence on human imagination, which relies on wish-impulses that seek fulfillment. It is also the drive in Freud, perhaps based fundamentally on his hidden wishes, to demonstrate that psychoanalysis is a profitable investigative tool for not only individual neuroses, but also for group neuroses and the social, political, and ethical issues underlying them. Freud's perceived successes with the psychoanalytic investigation of group neuroses emboldened him to explore utopianism psychoanalytically.

Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia

Author : Herbert Marcuse
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1914420411
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia written by Herbert Marcuse and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impassioned plea for overcoming capitalism, whose urgency is more timely today than when it was first published fifty years ago. Back in print after fifty years and with a new introduction by Ray Brassier, this often overlooked but prescient collection of Marcuse's lectures makes an impassioned plea for the overthrowing of capitalism. Analysing the work of Freud and Marx, and taking in topics like automation, work, postcapitalism, utopia, and technology, Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia excavates the psychic roots of the current crisis of capitalist civilisation, and gives us a blueprint for the emancipation of humanity from the toils of capitalism. In a world reeling from the ongoing collapse of the neoliberal consensus, coupled with the accelerating pace of catastrophic climate change wrought by capitalism, Marcuse’s radical insights in Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia are as urgently relevant today as they were in 1970.

Umbr(a): Utopia

Author :
Publisher : Umbr(a) Journal
ISBN 13 : 097995391X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (799 download)

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Download or read book Umbr(a): Utopia written by and published by Umbr(a) Journal. This book was released on with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Private Utopia

Author : August Sarnitz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110455498
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Private Utopia written by August Sarnitz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-11-27 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a scientific anthology and a text mosaic on the modern interior, its origins and its historic development. In recent years, science has increasingly focused on the subject of the interior; this book investigates the subject from different perspectives, the resumé of a symposium at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna. Experts in the fields of architectural history, philosophy and psychology analyze the modern trend towards the individual design of interiors beyond fashion and good taste; the atelier and practice of Lucian and Sigmund Freud, the interiors in Proust's novels, Wittgenstein's house and Kiesler's Endless House.

Freud

Author : Mark Holowchak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0765709457
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book Freud written by Mark Holowchak and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freud: From Individual Psychology to Group Psychology, by M. Andrew Holowchak, explores Freudian psychoanalysis as a full-fledged science, as it relates psychoanalytically to issues of individual psychology (Individualpsychologie) and group psychology (Massenpsychologie). Holowchak analyzes Freud's shift in focus in his mature years away from psychoanalysis as a "curative" method for treating individual neurosis, to psychoanalysis as a full-fledged science of the human psyche that essays to shed light on group issues, such as religiosity and war.

The Designed Myth

Author : Hans-Georg Soeffner
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3658397020
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (583 download)

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Download or read book The Designed Myth written by Hans-Georg Soeffner and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Eros and Civilization

Author : Herbert Marcuse
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135863717
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Eros and Civilization written by Herbert Marcuse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic work, Herbert Marcuse takes as his starting point Freud's statement that civilization is based on the permanent subjugation of the human instincts, his reconstruction of the prehistory of mankind - to an interpretation of the basic trends of western civilization, stressing the philosophical and sociological implications.

Civilization and Its Discontents

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486282538
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book Civilization and Its Discontents written by Sigmund Freud and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Dover thrift editions).

Symbolic Economies

Author : Jean-Joseph Goux
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801496127
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (961 download)

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Download or read book Symbolic Economies written by Jean-Joseph Goux and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major participant in the influential Tel Quel group in France, Jean-Joseph Goux here offers a bold reevaluation of both the Marxist economic model and the Freudian concept of the unconscious. Symbolic Economies makes available for the first time in English generous selections from Goux's Freud, Marx: Economie et symbolique (1973) and Les iconoclastes (1978). Goux brings the theories of historical materialism and of psychoanalysis into play to illuminate and enrich each other, and undertakes a compelling integration of the contributions of structuralism and post-structuralism. Looking closely at the work of such major figures as Lacan, Derrida, and Nietzsche, Goux extends the implications of Marxism and Freudianism to an interdisciplinary semiotics of value and proposes a radical concept of exchange. Literary theorists, philosophers, social scientists, cultural historians, and feminist critics alike will welcome this important and provocative work.

Radical Utopianism and Cultural Studies

Author : John Storey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351782436
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Radical Utopianism and Cultural Studies written by John Storey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Radical Utopianism and Cultural Studies, John Storey looks at the concept of utopianism from a cultural studies perspective and argues that radical utopianism can awaken the political promise of cultural studies. Between the Preface and the Postscript, there are seven chapters that explore different aspects of radical utopianism. The book begins with a definition of what radical utopianism means, with its productive combination of defamiliarization and desire. From there, it considers Thomas More’s invention of the concept of utopia with its double articulation of what is and what could be, Herbert Marcuse’s utopian rereading of Sigmund Freud’s concept of repression, Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers, the Paris Commune, and the Haight-Ashbury counterculture. In the final chapter, Storey examines two versions of utopian capitalism: retro and post. Although the main focus here is on Donald Trump’s presidential election campaign and Paul Mason’s recent bestseller Postcapitalism, the chaper begins with a brief discussion of Karl Marx on capitalism. Each chapter, in a different way, argues that radical utopianism defamiliarizes the manufactured naturalness of the here and now, making it conceivable to believe that another world is possible. This book provides an ideal introduction to utopianism for students of cultural studies as well as students within a number of related disciplines such as sociology, literature, history, politics, and media studies.

Freud

Author : Joel Whitebook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108210082
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Freud written by Joel Whitebook and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and work of Sigmund Freud continue to fascinate general and professional readers alike. Joel Whitebook here presents the first major biography of Freud since the last century, taking into account recent developments in psychoanalytic theory and practice, gender studies, philosophy, cultural theory, and more. Offering a radically new portrait of the creator of psychoanalysis, this book explores the man in all his complexity alongside an interpretation of his theories that cuts through the stereotypes that surround him. The development of Freud's thinking is addressed not only in the context of his personal life, but also in that of society and culture at large, while the impact of his thinking on subsequent issues of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and social theory is fully examined. Whitebook demonstrates that declarations of Freud's obsolescence are premature, and, with his clear and engaging style, brings this vivid figure to life in compelling and readable fashion.

Eros and Civilization

Author : Herbert Marcuse
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000966739
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Eros and Civilization written by Herbert Marcuse and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as the 'Guru of the New Left' and a leading figure of 1960s counterculture and liberation movements, the philosopher Herbert Marcuse is amongst the most renowned and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Eros and Civilization is one of his best-known books and brought him international fame. Taking his cue from Freud's view that repression of the instincts is a defining characteristic of the human mind, Marcuse fuses Freud's insight with Marx's theories of alienation and oppression. He argues that rather than our instincts turned in on themselves, it is modern capitalism itself that is preventing us from reaching the freedom we can find in a non-repressive society. A sweeping indictment of modern capitalism and consumerism that remains fresh and insightful, Eros and Civilization is a classic of activist and radical thinking that continues to fire debate and controversy today. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Douglas Kellner.

An Eroticized Culture?

Author : Gerhard Anton Gerber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book An Eroticized Culture? written by Gerhard Anton Gerber and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Adventures in the Orgasmatron

Author : Christopher Turner
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 142996748X
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Adventures in the Orgasmatron written by Christopher Turner and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 Well before the 1960s, a sexual revolution was under way in America, led by expatriated European thinkers who saw a vast country ripe for liberation. In Adventures in the Orgasmatron, Christopher Turner tells the revolution's story—an illuminating, thrilling, often bizarre story of sex and science, ecstasy and repression. Central to the narrative is the orgone box—a tall, slender construction of wood, metal, and steel wool. A person who sat in the box, it was thought, could elevate his or her "orgastic potential." The box was the invention of Wilhelm Reich, an outrider psychoanalyst who faced a federal ban on the orgone box, an FBI investigation, a fraught encounter with Einstein, and bouts of paranoia. In Turner's vivid account, Reich's efforts anticipated those of Alfred Kinsey, Herbert Marcuse, and other prominent thinkers—efforts that brought about a transformation of Western views of sexuality in ways even the thinkers themselves could not have imagined.

Perversion and Utopia: Studies in Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory

Author : Joel Whitebook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780262286077
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Perversion and Utopia: Studies in Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory written by Joel Whitebook and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. In this sweeping challenge to the postmodern critiques of psychoanalysis, Joel Whitebook argues for a reintegration of Freud's uncompromising investigation of the unconscious with the political and philosophical insights of critical theory. Perversion and Utopia follows in the tradition of Herbert Marcuse's Eros and Civilization and Paul Ricoeur's Freud and Philosophy . It expands on these books, however, because of the author's remarkable grasp not only of psychoanalytic studies but also of the contemporary critical climate; Whitebook, a philosopher and a psychoanalyst, writes with equal facility on both Habermas and Freud. A central thesis of Perversion and Utopia is that there is an essential affinity between the utopian impulse and the perverse impulse, in that both reflect a desire to bypass the reality principle that Freud claimed to define the human condition. The book explores the positive and negative aspects of the relationship between these impulses, which are ubiquitous features of human life, and the requirements of civilized social existence. Whitebook steers a course between orthodox psychoanalytic conservatism, which seeks simply to repress the perverse-utopian impulse in the name of social continuity and cohesion, and those forms of Freudo-Marxism, postmodernism, and psychoanalytic feminism that advocate its direct and full expression in the name of emancipation. While he demonstrates the limitations of the current textual approaches to Freud, especially those influenced by Lacan, Whitebook also enlists the lessons of psychoanalysis to counteract the excessive rationalism of the Habermasian brand of critical theory, thus making a substantial contribution to current discussions within critical theory itself. His analysis and interpretation of perversion, narcissism, sublimation, and ego bring new insight to these central and thorny issues in Freud, and his discussions of Adorno, Marcuse, Castoriadis, Habermas, Ricoeur, Lacan, and others are equally penetrating.