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Há 4 dias · On this level of unconscious politics, we find two related imaginary constructions: On one level, we find the libertarian fantasy of the individual who is able to access pleasure without any social restraint, and on another level, we discover that any limitation to the enjoying subject is seen as a form of oppressive castration. 24 Interestingly, this Oedipal conflict between the individual ...
Há 4 dias · This chapter examines the different ways that psychoanalysis can help us to move beyond the current polarized culture wars. Part of this process involves exposing the underlying fears, desires, fantasies, and defense mechanisms shaping the political unconscious....
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher and cultural critic who published intensively in the 1870s and 1880s. He is famous for uncompromising criticisms of traditional European morality and religion, as well as of conventional philosophical ideas and social and political pieties associated with modernity.
Há 5 dias · Jameson’s deeply influential effort to formalize an original Marxist literary and cultural hermeneutic, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act (1981), also directly addresses the problematic of Utopia, illuminating, for example, the Utopian figurations and horizons to be found in the fictions of Honoré de ...
Há 4 dias · As I will document, conservative and libertarian ideologues tend to utilize the same unconscious process of splitting, denial, projection, and projective identification, and this mode of the political unconscious reveals many of the inner workings of the contemporary culture war.
Há 1 dia · These writers “made sense” to her in the same way the ancient Taoist philosopher Lao Tzu did: they helped Le Guin “to think about war, peace, politics, how we govern one another and ...
Há 5 dias · This book argues that whenever we are talking about cancel culture, identity politics, political correctness, antisemitism, conspiracy theories, or the alt-Right, we are dealing with a culture war, which often pits two sides against each other in a split world of good and evil.
