Desiring the Bomb: Communication, Psychoanalysis, and the Atomic Age

Explores world-ending fantasies through the lens of psychoanalysis to reveal their implications for both contemporary apocalyptic culture and the operations of language itself. What accounts for the enduring power of the Bomb as a symbol? What does the prospect of annihilation suggest about language and its limits?

Summary

Explores world-ending fantasies through the lens of psychoanalysis to reveal their implications for both contemporary apocalyptic culture and the operations of language itself. What accounts for the enduring power of the Bomb as a symbol? What does the prospect of annihilation suggest about language and its limits?

Product details

• Authors: Calum Lister Matheson
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Univ of Alabama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9780817319984
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1998-4
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 236 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 424 g
• Series: Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit; Rhetoric, Culture, and Social; Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit; Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique Series; Rhetoric Culture and Social Cr
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science