Intoxication, Modernity, and Colonialism Freud’s Industrial Unconscious, Benjamin’s Hashish Mimesis /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Bjelić, Dušan I. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Θέματα: Psychology.; Civilization > History.; Psychoanalysis.; Religion and culture.; Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Critical psychology.; Critical Psychology.; Sociology of Culture.; Cultural History.; Self and Identity.

This book depicts how Freud’s cocaine and Benjamin’s hashish illustrate two different critiques of modernity and two different messianic emancipations through the pleasures of intoxicating discourse.  Freud discovered the “libido” and “unconscious” in the industrial mimetic scheme of cocaine, wherea...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• 1. On Cocaine's radical ambiguity
• 2. Freud's 'Cocaine Episode'
• 3. From Colonial to Sexual Conversion: Freud as 'Woman'
• 4. Freud as 'Conquistador' of the Underworld and as 'Bosnian Turk'
• 5. Freud on the Acropolis: Between Oedipus and 'Little Moor' Conclusion.