Enjoyment and Submission in Modern Fantasy

• Main Author: Panu, Mihnea (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Series: Studies in the Psychosocial
• Subjects: Psychology.; Psychoanalysis.; Cultural studies.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Emotions.; Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Personality and Social Psychology.; Self and Identity.; Emotion.; Cultural Studies.

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 intractabili...