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Currency of Desire : Libidinal Economy, Psychoanalysis and Sexual Revolution /
Metaphors of money have shaped theories of sexual psychology ever since Enlightenment doctors explained the mind-body as an 'animal economy' whose currency was desire, figured as a liquid form of energy that could be spent or saved, profitably invested or pleasurably squandered. In this er...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London [England] :
Lawrence & Wishart,
2016.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction : libidinal economy before Freud and after neoliberalism
- 2. Consumer culture and the sovereign spender : Sade, Freud, Bataille and Lawrence
- 3. The libidinal economy of advertising : psychoanalysis and the invention of the consumer unconscious
- 4. Compulsive spending and the trope of the prostitute as proto-revolutionary : Parent-Duchâtelet, Reich, Bataille, Marcuse, Marx and Lyotard
- 5. ‘Revolution is the orgasm of history' : two theories of revolutionary libidinal economy
- 6. Libidinal communists and sexual revolutionaries, part I : the Oneida Community (1848-1880), with a digression on electrifying sex
- 7. Libidinal communists and sexual revolutionaries, part II : the Friedrichshof Commune (1972-1990), with a reflection on Keynesianism
- 8. Psychoanalysis, post-communism and the black economy.