Intoxication, Modernity, and Colonialism: FreudAEs Industrial Unconscious, BenjaminAEs Hashish Mimesis - 9781349950720

This book depicts how FreudÆs cocaine and BenjaminÆs hashish illustrate two critiques of modernity and two messianic emancipations through the pleasures of intoxicating discourse. Freud discovered the ôlibidoö and ôunconsciousö in the industrial mimetic scheme of cocaine, whereas Benjamin found an inspiration for his critique of phantasmagoria and its variant psychoanalysis in hashishÆs mimesis. In addition, as part of the history of colonialism, both drugs generated two distinct colonial discourses and, consequently, two different understandings of the emancipatory powers of pleasure, the unconscious, and dreams. After all, great ideas don't liberate; they intoxicate.

• | Author: DuÜan I. Bjelic
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Jan 29, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 316 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Psychology
• | ISBN-10: 1349950726
• | ISBN-13: 9781349950720