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Death and Mastery : Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New Directions in Critical Theory SeriesPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (239 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231542616
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Death and MasteryDDC classification:
  • 142
LOC classification:
  • BF175.5.D4.F664 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: In Defense of Drive Theory -- Part One: Dream -- 1. Death, Mastery, and the Origins of Life: Sigmund Freud's Strange Proposal -- Part Two: Interpretation -- 2. Between Need and Dread: Hans Loewald and the Primordial Density -- 3. Aggressivity in Psychoanalysis (Reprised): Jacques Lacan and the Genesis of Omnipotence -- 4. The Psyche in Late Capitalism I: Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and the Crisis of Internalization -- 5. The Psyche in Late Capitalism II: Herbert Marcuse and the Technological Lure -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Fong reconstructs the psychoanalytic "foundation stone" of critical theory in an effort to once again think together the possibility of psychic and social transformation. Fong complicates the famous antagonism between Eros and the death drive in reference to a third term: the woefully undertheorized drive to mastery.
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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: In Defense of Drive Theory -- Part One: Dream -- 1. Death, Mastery, and the Origins of Life: Sigmund Freud's Strange Proposal -- Part Two: Interpretation -- 2. Between Need and Dread: Hans Loewald and the Primordial Density -- 3. Aggressivity in Psychoanalysis (Reprised): Jacques Lacan and the Genesis of Omnipotence -- 4. The Psyche in Late Capitalism I: Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and the Crisis of Internalization -- 5. The Psyche in Late Capitalism II: Herbert Marcuse and the Technological Lure -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Fong reconstructs the psychoanalytic "foundation stone" of critical theory in an effort to once again think together the possibility of psychic and social transformation. Fong complicates the famous antagonism between Eros and the death drive in reference to a third term: the woefully undertheorized drive to mastery.

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