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

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 poli...

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Autor principal: McGowan, Todd
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska Paperback, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Sumario: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 th.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (424 pages).
ISBN:9780803246232