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Enjoyment and Submission in Modern Fantasy (Studies in the Psychosocial) - 9781137513205

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This book reveals the workings of the bourgeois passion for submission in a variety of contemporary contexts. By (re)introducing the concept æbourgeoisÆ as an analytical term and describing this contemporary subject as a psychic economy rather than just as a social class, Panu shows the intractability of contemporary forms of enjoyment and neoliberalismÆs periodic outbursts of aggressiveness to be connected by a recurrent circuit of trauma and anxiety originating in the bourgeois subjectÆs difficult relationship with symbolic authority.So far, most anticapitalist and decolonial struggles in the West have been hesitant when engaging with the issue of bourgeois enjoyment as the main source of capitalismÆs resilience. This exciting new work draws on an extensive range of theorists such as Butler, Copjec, Äi?ek and Zupancic to emphasise the importance of psychological mechanisms irreducible to rationality or knowledge such as desire, enjoyment, and the obscure nature of selfhood in the reiteration of the current capitalist reality.


  • | Author: Mihnea Panu
  • | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • | Publication Date: Nov 17, 2016
  • | Number of Pages: 244 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Hardcover/Psychology
  • | ISBN-10: 1137513209
  • | ISBN-13: 9781137513205
Author:
Mihnea Panu
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date:
Nov 17, 2016
Number of pages:
244 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Hardcover/Psychology
ISBN-10:
1137513209
ISBN-13:
9781137513205