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1 online resource. |
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Studies in the psychosocial |
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Studies in the psychosocial.
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| Contents |
Content; 1: The Bourgeois Returns; Dispositifs of Enjoyment; The Liberal Fantasy of Missing Bits; Modernity as a Bourgeois Fantasy; Bourgeois Jouissance; Notes; References; 2: The 'Will-To-Not-Know'; Modern Conflict; Enjoying Submission; Faking Orgasm; The Will-to-Not-Know; The Will-to-Not-Know as Compulsion; The Will-to-Not-Know as Disavowal; The Passions of the Saints: Bourgeois Trauma as Jouissance; Notes; References; 3: The Nonmodern Bourgeois; Modern Identifications; His Master's Gaze; Otherness and Effeminacy; Ethnic Jouissance; The Colonial Habitus Wars and 'Switched at Birth'; The Master's Correction and Virile Violence; The Colonial Administrators: 'Why We Love Americans'; The Colonial Administrators: Primitivism and Mass Trauma; Ideology and the 'Masses'; Turning Our Backs?; Notes; References; 4: Bourgeois Sex Fantasy; Propping Up Daddy's Phallus; Bourgeois Sex Fantasy; The Mother as 'One'; Reproductive Will-to-Not-Know; Attaching the Libidinal Cord; Portrait of Oedipus as a Bourgeois Fetish; Conclusion; Notes; References; 5: The Fantasmatic Revolution; Revolutionary Events and Disciplinary Terror; Strategic Preparedness and the Subaltern's Sacrificial Body; Revolution without Desire; Acting out under the Father's Gaze; Leaving the Asylum; Notes; References; Index. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 8, 2016). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This book reveals the workings of the bourgeois passion for submission in a variety of contemporary contexts. By (re)introducing the concept 'bourgeois' 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 neoliberalism's periodic outbursts of aggressiveness to be connected by a recurrent circuit of trauma and anxiety originating in the bourgeois subject's 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 capitalism's resilience. This exciting new work draws on an extensive range of theorists such as Butler, Copjec, Žižek 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. . |
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Sexual dominance and submission -- Psychological aspects.
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Sexual fantasies -- Psychological aspects.
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Middle class -- Psychology.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Original 1137513209 9781137513205 (OCoLC)951835403 |
| ISBN |
9781137513212 (electronic bk.) |
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1137513217 (electronic bk.) |
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9781137513205 |
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1137513209 |
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