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Subterranean politics and Freud's legacy : critical theory and society /

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 democrat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Buzby, Amy L., 1984-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Critical political theory and radical practice.
Subjects:
PHILOSOPHY / Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
PSYCHOLOGY / General.
Critical theory.
Social psychology.
Freud, Sigmund, > 1856-1939.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.