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The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection
Judith Butler
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Description for The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection
Paperback. Drawing upon Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault and Althusser, this work offers a theory of subject formation that illuminates as ambivalent the psychic effects of social power. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 264.
As a form of power, subjection is paradoxical. To be dominated by a power external to oneself is a familiar and agonizing form power takes. To find, however, that what one is, one's very formation as a subject, is dependent upon that very power is quite another. If, following Foucault, we understand power as forming the subject as well, it provides the very condition of its existence and the trajectory of its desire. Power is not simply what we depend on for our existence but that which forms reflexivity as well. Drawing upon Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault, and ... Read more
As a form of power, subjection is paradoxical. To be dominated by a power external to oneself is a familiar and agonizing form power takes. To find, however, that what one is, one's very formation as a subject, is dependent upon that very power is quite another. If, following Foucault, we understand power as forming the subject as well, it provides the very condition of its existence and the trajectory of its desire. Power is not simply what we depend on for our existence but that which forms reflexivity as well. Drawing upon Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804728126
SKU
V9780804728126
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Reviews for The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection
The emergence of self-consciousness is rooted in paradox-for becoming a subject is intricately bound up with being subjected. This insight . . . is explored and developed as [Butler's] book unfolds, taking the reader through a tour de force of its rhetorical, linguistic, philosophical, psychoanalytic, and social and political implications.
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