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Death and Mastery: Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism
Benjamin Y. Fong
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Hardback. Series: New Directions in Critical Theory. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; JHBA; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
New Directions in Critical Theory
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231176682
SKU
V9780231176682
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About Benjamin Y. Fong
Benjamin Y. Fong is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett, the Honors College of Arizona State University. His work has been published in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, the Journal of the American Academy of Religion), The Stone (New York Times), and the Philosophical Salon (Los Angeles Review of Books).
Reviews for Death and Mastery: Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism
Benjamin Fong offers the most cogent and compelling case I've encountered in defense of the death drive, showing that it should not be equated with violence and destruction but, to the contrary, seen as a means for individuation and life.
Noelle McAfee, Emory University At various moments in Death and Mastery, the writing is so down to earth as ... Read more
Noelle McAfee, Emory University At various moments in Death and Mastery, the writing is so down to earth as ... Read more