The Currency of Desire: Libidinal Economy, Psychoanalysis and Sexual Revolution

ISBN-13: 9781907103575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str.

David Bennett

Opis

The language of money has informed medical, psychological and political theories of sexual desire for at least 300 years. Desire, figured as libidinal energy, represented potential work-power and spending-power and hence a form of personal 'capital', an economic resource for both the individual and the collectivity. This book explores how this view