Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis: From the Frankfurt School to Contemporary Critique

ISBN-13: 9781032104270 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 312 str.

Mills, Jon

Opis

For the first time, this volume brings Critical Theory into proper dialogue with modern developments in the psychoanalytic movement and covers a broad range of topics in contemporary society that revisit the Frankfurt School and its contributions to psychoanalytic social critique.

Spis treści

Preface  1. Psychoanalysis and the Frankfurt School  2. Communism and Ambivalence: Freud, Marxism, and Aggression  3. Recapitulation and the Vicissitudes of Progress, from Freud to the Frankfurt School: “The Germ of the Regression”  4. Analytical Psychology and the Dialectic of Enlightment  5. Dysrecognition and Pathos  6. Critical Theory and Anti-Semitiism: Implications for Politics, Education, and Psychoanalysis  7. Critical Theory, Left-Wing Authoritarianism, and Anti-Semitism  8. The Evolutionary Anthropology of Erich Fromm: The Frankfurt School, Second Nature, and the Existential Crises of Consciousness  9. Colonizing the American Psyche: Virtue and the Problem of Consumer Capitalism  10. No Sex Without Coffee: The One Nature and its Superstructures: Elements of Freudian Materialism  11. Shrinking Vistas: Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, and the Postmodern Mire  12. Mapping the White Unconscious: Critical Race Theory, Whiteness Studies, and Psychoanalysis  13. Critical Theory and Contemporary Psychoanalysis