Late Capitalist Freud in Literary, Cultural, and Political Theory

ISBN-13: 9783030471965 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 180 str.

Maria-Daniella Dick; Robbie McLaughlan

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Contents

 

Chapter 1: Introduction

·         Theoretical Coordinates

·         Freud in the Factory

·         Lobotomized Happiness

 

Chapter 2: A Politics of Freud

·         The Elite: A Dictatorship of Reason

·         ‘Locker Room Talk’

 

Chapter 3: Psycho(social) Media

·         Freud’s Social Network

·         The Cyber Superego

·         Capitalism and Desire

 

Chapter 4: Bodily Economies

·         Self-Care and the Reality Principle

·         The Work of Self-Care

 

 

Chapter 5: Culture in the Age of Death Drive

·         Kultur and Cultural Production

·         ‘A Work of Culture’

·         Is There Any Escape?

 

Chapter 6: Conclusion: Death Drive Ecologies

O autorze

Maria-Daniella Dick is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow, UK, and co-author of The Derrida Wordbook (2013). Her research and teaching is in the fields of critical theory and continental philosophy; modernism and modernity; comparative literature; and psychoanalysis.

Robbie McLaughlan is Lecturer in English Literature at Newcastle University, UK, and the author of Reimagining the Dark Continent in fin de siècle Literature (2012). He has published extensively on the developmental history of psychoanalytic theory and in its application to contemporary issues.