The Psychopathology of American Capitalism [electronic resource] / by Thomas Paul Bonfiglio.

Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9783319555928
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/20048
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2017.
Yayın Bilgisi
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Fiziksel Niteleme
VIII, 296 p. online resource.
Dizi
Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice, 2731-6599
İçindekiler Notu
1. Introduction -- 2. Marx, Freud, and Capital -- 3. Immanent Injustice: Race and Gender -- 4. Misrepresentations: Deleuze and Guattari -- 5. Žižek’s Hysterical Commodities -- 6. Marketed Fetishism -- 7. Language, Thought, and Economy -- 8. Coldwar Cognition -- 9. Anticommunism and Academia -- 10. Anglocentrism -- 11. From Economy to Identity: How Many Ends Does It Take to Make a Middle? -- 12. Conclusion.
Özet, vb.
This book synthesizes psychoanalytic and Marxist techniques in order to illuminate the resistance to a socialization of the American economy, the protectionist discourses of anomalous American capitalism, and the suppression of the capitalist welfare state. After the Second World War, Democrats and Republicans effectively eliminated the communist and socialist parties from the American political spectrum and suppressed their allied labor movements. The right-wing shift of both parties fabricated a false opposition of left and right that does not correspond to political oppositions in the industrialized democracies. Marxist perspectives can account for the massive inequality of the political economy, but they are insufficient for illuminating its preservation. Psychoanalysis is necessary in order to explain why Americans continue to vote within a two-party system that neglects the lower classes, and why the working class tends to vote against its own interests. The psychoanalytic techniques employed include doubling, repetition, displacement, condensation, inversion, denial, fetishizing, and cognitive repression. In examining the fixation upon the proxy binary of Democrat vs. Republican, which suppresses the true opposition of left vs. right and neutralizes alternatives, the work analyses numerous contemporary political issues through applications of Marxist psychoanalytic theory.
Konu
Political science.
America __ Politics and government.
International economic relations.
Critical theory.
Psychoanalysis.
Psychology, Pathological.
Political Theory.
American Politics.
International Political Economy’.
Critical Theory.
Psychoanalysis.
Psychopathology.