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

• Main Author: Bjelić, Dušan I. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.