Late Capitalist Freud in Literary, Cultural, and Political Theory proposes that late Freudian theory has had an historical influence on the configuration of contemporary life and is central to the construction of twenty-first-century capitalism. This book investigates how we continue to live in the Freudian century, turning its attentions to specific crisis points within neoliberalism—the rise of figures like Trump, the development of social media as a new superego force, the economics that underpin the wellness and self-care industries as well as the contemporary consumption of popular culture—to maintain the continued historical importance of Freudian thought in all its dimensions. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, literary theory, cultural studies, and political theory, this book assesses the contribution that an historical and theoretical consideration of the late Freud can make to analyzing certain aspects of late capital.


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Late Capitalist Freud in Literary, Cultural, and Political Theory proposes that late Freudian theory has had an historical influence on the configuration of contemporary life and is central to the construction of twenty-first-century capitalism.

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Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: A Politics of Freud.- Chapter 3: Psycho(social) Media.- Chapter 4: Bodily Economies.- Chapter 5: Culture in the Age of Death Drive.- Chapter 6: Conclusion: Death Drive Ecologies.

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“Late Capitalist Freud in Literary, Cultural, and Political Theory is the latest, and best, effort to overcome the Freud-Marx antagonism in critical theory. By focusing on the later writings of Freud, Dick and McLaughlan show that Freud was aware of the rise of new forms and phases of capitalism in the early twentieth century. Freud’s awareness in the later work has a critical and oppositional edge that his earlier writings may lack.” (Stephen Shapiro, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Warwick, UK, and author (with Philip Barnard) of Pentecostal Modernism: Lovecraft, Los Angeles, and World-Systems Culture (2017))
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Makes a case for the transformative and continuing effect of Freudian thought on the contemporary socio-political landscape Argues for the importance of late Freud to an understanding of psychoanalysis Illuminates contemporary capitalist culture through a reading of Freud’s political writings
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ISBN
9783030471934
Publisert
2020-07-17
Utgiver
Springer Nature Switzerland AG; Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, P, 06
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Engelsk
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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.