Book ID: CBB788889057

Political Freud: A History (2015)

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Zaretsky, Eli (Author)


Columbia University Press


Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: 250
Language: English

In this masterful history, Eli Zaretsky reveals the power of Freudian thought to illuminate the great political conflicts of the twentieth century. Developing an original concept of "political Freudianism," he shows how twentieth-century radicals, activists, and intellectuals used psychoanalytic ideas to probe consumer capitalism, racial violence, anti-Semitism, and patriarchy. He also underscores the continuing influence and critical potential of those ideas in the transformed landscape of the present. Zaretsky's conception of political Freudianism unites the two overarching themes of the last century—totalitarianism and consumerism—in a single framework. He finds that theories of mass psychology and the unconscious were central to the study of fascism and the Holocaust; to African American radical thought, particularly the struggle to overcome the legacy of slavery; to the rebellions of the 1960s; and to the feminism and gay liberation movements of the 1970s. Nor did the influence of political Freud end when the era of Freud bashing began. Rather, Zaretsky proves that political Freudianism is alive today in cultural studies, the study of memory, theories of trauma, postcolonial thought, film, media and computer studies, evolutionary theory and even economics.

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Authors & Contributors
Ash, Mitchell G.
Stoff, Heiko
Burston, Daniel
Ffytche, Matt
Glick, Thomas F.
Jørgensen, Finn Arne
Journals
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Colorado Review of Hispanic Studies
Contemporary European History
History of the Human Sciences
Journal of the History of Biology
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Publishers
Routledge
Brandes & Apsel
Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura
Fortress Press
Harvard University Press
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Science and politics
Authoritarianism; totalitarianism
Psychoanalysis
Science and government
Consumers and consumerism
Public health
People
Freud, Sigmund
Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich
Darwin, Charles Robert
Einstein, Albert
Jung, Carl Gustav
Kirsch, James
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
21st century
Places
Germany
Soviet Union
Italy
Portugal
Brazil
Chile
Institutions
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
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