Intoxication, Modernity, and Colonialism: Freud’s Industrial Unconscious, Benjamin’s Hashish Mimesis - Couverture rigide

Bjelić, Dušan I.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1349950726 ISBN 13 : 9781349950720

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Synopsis

This book depicts how Freud's cocaine and Benjamin's hashish illustrate two critiques of modernity and two messianic emancipations through the pleasures of intoxicating discourse. Freud discovered the "libido" and "unconscious" in the industrial mimetic scheme of cocaine, whereas Benjamin found an inspiration for his critique of phantasmagoria and its variant psychoanalysis in hashish's mimesis. In addition, as part of the history of colonialism, both drugs generated two distinct colonial discourses and, consequently, two different understandings of the emancipatory powers of pleasure, the unconscious, and dreams. After all, great ideas don't liberate; they intoxicate.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Dusan I. Bjelic is Professor at University of Southern Maine USA. He obtained his PhD in Sociology from Boston University, USA. He is the author of Galileo's Pendulum (2003) and Normalizing the Balkans (2011) and the co-editor (with Obrad Savic) of Balkan as Metaphor (2002).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1349950726
• ISBN 13: 9781349950720
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 307
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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