The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection

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Overview

Judith Butler considers the way in which psychic life is generated by the social operation of power, and how that social operation of power is concealed and fortified by the psyche that it produces.
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Modern Psychoanalysis
The emergence of self-consciousness is rooted in paradox -- for becoming a subject is intricately bound up with being subjected. This insight . . . is explored and developed as [Butler's] book unfolds, taking the reader through a tour de force of its rhetorical, linguistic, philosophical, psychoanalytic, and social and political implications.
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“The emergence of self-consciousness is rooted in paradox—for becoming a subject is intricately bound up with being subjected. This insight . . . is explored and developed as [Butler’s] book unfolds, taking the reader through a tour de force of its rhetorical, linguistic, philosophical, psychoanalytic, and social and political implications.”—Modern Psychoanalysis
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780804728126
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • Publication date: 5/28/1997
  • Edition description: 1
  • Pages: 228
  • Sales rank: 696,929
  • Product dimensions: 5.00 (w) x 8.00 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction 1
1 Stubborn Attachment, Bodily Subjection: Rereading Hegel on the Unhappy Consciousness 31
2 Circuits of Bad Conscience: Nietzsche and Freud 63
3 Subjection, Resistance, Resignification: Between Freud and Foucault 83
4 "Conscience Doth Make Subjects of Us All": Althusser's Subjection 106
5 Melancholy Gender/Refused Identification: Keeping It Moving 132
Commentary on Judith Butler 151
Reply to Adam Phillips 160
6 Psychic Inceptions: Melancholy, Ambivalence, Rage 167
Notes 201
Index 217
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