Death and Mastery Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism |
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| Author:
| Fong, Benjamin |
| Series title: | New Directions in Critical Theory Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-17668-2 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2016 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $107.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.