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Political Freud : A History / Eli Zaretsky.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231172448
  • 9780231540148
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.8917 23
LOC classification:
  • BF175.5.P65 Z3748 2015
  • RC506
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction–Political Freud -- 1. Psychoanalysis and the Spirit of Capitalism -- 2. Beyond the Blues -- 3. In the Shadow of the Holocaust -- 4. The Ego at War -- 5. From the Maturity Ethic to the Psychology of Power -- Afterword–Freud in the Twenty-First Century -- NOTES -- INDEX
Summary: In this masterful history, Eli Zaretsky reveals the power of Freudian thought to illuminate the great political conflicts of the twentieth century. Developing an original concept of "political Freudianism," he shows how twentieth-century radicals, activists, and intellectuals used psychoanalytic ideas to probe consumer capitalism, racial violence, anti-Semitism, and patriarchy. He also underscores the continuing influence and critical potential of those ideas in the transformed landscape of the present. Zaretsky's conception of political Freudianism unites the two overarching themes of the last century—totalitarianism and consumerism—in a single framework. He finds that theories of mass psychology and the unconscious were central to the study of fascism and the Holocaust; to African American radical thought, particularly the struggle to overcome the legacy of slavery; to the rebellions of the 1960s; and to the feminism and gay liberation movements of the 1970s. Nor did the influence of political Freud end when the era of Freud bashing began. Rather, Zaretsky proves that political Freudianism is alive today in cultural studies, the study of memory, theories of trauma, postcolonial thought, film, media and computer studies, evolutionary theory and even economics.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction–Political Freud -- 1. Psychoanalysis and the Spirit of Capitalism -- 2. Beyond the Blues -- 3. In the Shadow of the Holocaust -- 4. The Ego at War -- 5. From the Maturity Ethic to the Psychology of Power -- Afterword–Freud in the Twenty-First Century -- NOTES -- INDEX

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In this masterful history, Eli Zaretsky reveals the power of Freudian thought to illuminate the great political conflicts of the twentieth century. Developing an original concept of "political Freudianism," he shows how twentieth-century radicals, activists, and intellectuals used psychoanalytic ideas to probe consumer capitalism, racial violence, anti-Semitism, and patriarchy. He also underscores the continuing influence and critical potential of those ideas in the transformed landscape of the present. Zaretsky's conception of political Freudianism unites the two overarching themes of the last century—totalitarianism and consumerism—in a single framework. He finds that theories of mass psychology and the unconscious were central to the study of fascism and the Holocaust; to African American radical thought, particularly the struggle to overcome the legacy of slavery; to the rebellions of the 1960s; and to the feminism and gay liberation movements of the 1970s. Nor did the influence of political Freud end when the era of Freud bashing began. Rather, Zaretsky proves that political Freudianism is alive today in cultural studies, the study of memory, theories of trauma, postcolonial thought, film, media and computer studies, evolutionary theory and even economics.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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