Subterranean politics and Freud's legacy : critical theory and society / Amy L. Buzby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buzby, Amy L., 1984-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical theory.

Social psychology.

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Physical Description:

viii, 209 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

"This book reclaims psychoanalysis as an ally to critical theory's efforts to restore subjectivity and oppose systemic domination in modernity. The author achieves this aim by reimagining of Freud as a militant optimist, compassionate practitioner and innovator whose work still supports democratic processes contests the dominant scholarly accounts of his work. The most important contribution of this book, however, is the restoration of the radical psychoanalytic foundations of critical theory. A return to its psychoanalytic foundations will restore the compassion of critical theory and grant crucial access to the psychological foundations of domination. Through psychoanalysis, theory can return to the vitally important task of restoring subjectivity against domination and for the emancipation of society"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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Introduction

1. Freud and the Critical Method

2. Freud and the Critical Theory of Society

3. Psychoanalysis as Humanism: Reclaiming Eros for Critical Theory

4. New Foundations for Resistance: The Marcuse-Fromm Debate Revisited

5. Working Through the Past: Psychoanalysis, Critical Theory and Bad Conscience

6. Wrong Life Lived Rightly: Sublimation, Identification and the Restoration of Subjectivity

Concluding Remarks.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137330642

1137330643

OCLC:

834978663

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