TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fong,Benjamin
TI  - Death and Mastery: Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism 
T2  - New Directions in Critical Theory
SN  - 9780231176682
AV  - BF175.5.D4 F66 2016
U1  - 150.195 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Death instinct
KW  - Death
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: In Defense of Drive Theory --; Part I: Dream --; 1. Death, Mastery, and the Origins of Life --; Part II: Interpretation --; 2. Between Need and Dread --; 3. Aggressivity in Psychoanalysis (Reprised) --; Part III: Working Through --; 4. The Psyche in Late Capitalism I --; 5. The Psyche in Late Capitalism II --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - The first philosophers of the Frankfurt School famously turned to the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud to supplement their Marxist analyses of ideological subjectification. Since the collapse of their proposed "marriage of Marx and Freud," psychology and social theory have grown apart to the impoverishment of both. Returning to this union, Benjamin Y. Fong reconstructs the psychoanalytic "foundation stone" of critical theory in an effort to once again think together the possibility of psychic and social transformation. Drawing on the work of Hans Loewald and Jacques Lacan, Fong complicates the famous antagonism between Eros and the death drive in reference to a third term: the woefully undertheorized drive to mastery. Rejuvenating Freudian metapsychology through the lens of this pivotal concept, he then provides fresh perspective on Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse's critiques of psychic life under the influence of modern cultural and technological change. The result is a novel vision of critical theory that rearticulates the nature of subjection in late capitalism and renews an old project of resistance
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/fong17668
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231542616
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231542616/original
ER  -