Subterranean Politics and Freud's Legacy: Critical Theory and Society

by A. Buzby

Overview

Subterranean Politics and Freud's Legacy seeks to reestablish psychoanalysis as an ally to critical theory's efforts to restore subjectivity and oppose systemic domination in modernity. Given critical theory's ongoing crisis of identity and purpose, this project makes a significant contribution to contemporary political theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349461165
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	08/16/2013
Series:	Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice
Edition description:	1st ed. 2013
Pages:	209
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Amy L. Buzby is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Arkansas State University, USA. She received her PhD in Political Science from Rutgers University. She is a former Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights and Academic Fellow at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. Her published works include an edited volume, Communicative Action: The Logos Interviews.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Freud and the Critical Method 2. Freud and the Critical Theory of Society 3. Psychoanalysis as Humanism: Reclaiming Eros for Critical Theory 4. New Foundations for Resistance: The Marcuse-Fromm Debate Revisited 5. Working Through the Past: Psychoanalysis, Critical Theory and Bad Conscience 6. Wrong Life Lived Rightly: Sublimation, Identification and the Restoration of Subjectivity Concluding Remarks

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