Enjoying what we don't have : the political project of psychoanalysis / Todd McGowan.

0803246234 (electronic bk.)
9780803246232 (electronic bk.)
1299535372 (electronic bk.)
9781299535374 (electronic bk.)
9780803245112 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0803245114 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1496210522
9781496210524

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]

English

English.

1 online resource.

BF175.4.S65 M25 2013

(OCoLC)851557608

Although there have been many attempts to apply the ideas of psychoanalysis to political thought, this book is the first to identify the political project inherent in the fundamental tenets of psychoanalysis. And this political project, Todd McGowan contends, provides an avenue for emancipatory politics after the failure of Marxism in the twentieth century. Where others seeking the political import of psychoanalysis have looked to Freud's early work on sexuality, McGowan focuses on Freud's discovery of the death drive and Jacques Lacan's elaboration of this concept. He argues that th.

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