Reaction Formations: Dialogism, Ideology, and Capitalist Culture

The Creation of the Modern Unconscious
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41164-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 144, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

Bakhtin and Voloshinov argued that dialogue is the intersubjective basis of consciousness, and of the creativity which makes historical changes in consciousness possible. The multiple dialogical relationships give every subject, who has developed through internalising them, the potential to distance him or herself from them. Consciousness is therefore an “unfinalised” process, always open to a possible future which would not merely reiterate the past. But this book explores its corollary: The relative openness is a field of conflict where rival discourses struggle for hegemony, by subordinating or eliminating their rivals. That is how the unconscious is created out of socio-historical conflicts. Hegemony is always incomplete, because there is always the possibility of a return of its repressed rivals in new combinations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hall, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Dialogism: the Potential for Change and for Resistance to Change

The Fissured Modern Subject: Paradox versus “Becoming” in Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground

Rethinking Ideology as a Field of Dialogical Conflict

A Contradictory Symbiosis is Born: the Rival Ideologies of the Market and the State under Capitalism

Captivating the Unruly Subject: Ideology in Early Modern Europe

Repairing the Universe: Mysticism as Loss and Longing

Baroque Incompletion, the Captivated Subject, and the Humour ofDon Quijote

The Dialectics of Laughter and Anxiety

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Hall, B.Phil. Oxon, is a Research Fellow at the Bakhtin Centre, Sheffield University. He is the author of Anxious Pleasures: Shakespearean Comedy and the Nation State (AUP 1995), and he has written extensively on the work of Bakhtin and Voloshinov.