Fong Death and Mastery

Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-231-54261-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 61, 240 Seiten

Reihe: New Directions in Critical Theory

Fong reconstructs the psychoanalytic “foundation stone” of critical theory in an effort to once again think together the possibility of psychic and social transformation. Fong complicates the famous antagonism between Eros and the death drive in reference to a third term: the woefully undertheorized drive to mastery.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fong, Benjamin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Religionspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: In Defense of Drive Theory
Part One: Dream
1. Death, Mastery, and the Origins of Life: Sigmund Freud's Strange Proposal
Part Two: Interpretation
2. Between Need and Dread: Hans Loewald and the Primordial Density
3. Aggressivity in Psychoanalysis (Reprised): Jacques Lacan and the Genesis of Omnipotence
Part Three: Working Through
4. The Psyche in Late Capitalism I: Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and the Crisis of Internalization
5. The Psyche in Late Capitalism II: Herbert Marcuse and the Technological Lure
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Benjamin Y. Fong is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett, the Honors College of Arizona State University. His work has been published in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, the Journal of the American Academy of Religion), The Stone (New York Times), and the Philosophical Salon (Los Angeles Review of Books).