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Enjoyment and Submission in Modern Fantasy
Mihnea Panu
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Description for Enjoyment and Submission in Modern Fantasy
Hardback. Series: Studies in the Psychosocial. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMH; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
This book reveals the workings of the bourgeois passion for submission in a variety of contemporary contexts. By (re)introducing the concept `bourgeois' as an analytical term and describing this contemporary subject as a psychic economy rather than just as a social class, Panu shows the intractability of contemporary forms of enjoyment and neoliberalism's periodic outbursts of aggressiveness to be connected by a recurrent circuit of trauma and anxiety originating in the bourgeois subject's difficult relationship with symbolic authority.So far, most anticapitalist and decolonial struggles in the West have been hesitant when engaging with the issue of bourgeois enjoyment as the ... Read more
This book reveals the workings of the bourgeois passion for submission in a variety of contemporary contexts. By (re)introducing the concept `bourgeois' as an analytical term and describing this contemporary subject as a psychic economy rather than just as a social class, Panu shows the intractability of contemporary forms of enjoyment and neoliberalism's periodic outbursts of aggressiveness to be connected by a recurrent circuit of trauma and anxiety originating in the bourgeois subject's difficult relationship with symbolic authority.So far, most anticapitalist and decolonial struggles in the West have been hesitant when engaging with the issue of bourgeois enjoyment as the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Studies in the Psychosocial
Number of Pages
239
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137513205
SKU
V9781137513205
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About Mihnea Panu
Mihnea Panu is Associate Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.
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