Death and Mastery - Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Benjamin Fong, Benjamin Y Fong, Benjamin Y. Fong
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9780231176682
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17668-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: New Directions in Critical Theory; New Directions in Critical The; New Directions in Critical Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Western philosophy from c 1800, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis