The Third Unconscious
A wide-ranging exploration of the present, and the future, of the Unconcious

The Unconscious knows no time, it has no before-and-after, it does not have a history of its own. Yet, it does not always remain the same. Different political and economic conditions transform the way in which the Unconscious emerges within the "psychosphere" of society. In the early 20th century, Freud characterized the Unconscious as the dark side of the well-order framework of Progress and Reason. At the end of the past century, Deleuze and Guattari described it as a laboratory: the magmatic force ceaselessly bringing to the fore new possibilities of imagination. Today, at a time of viral pandemics and in the midst of the catastrophic collapse of capitalism, the Unconscious has begun to emerge in yet another form. In this book, Franco 'Bifo' Berardi vividly portraits the form in which the Unconscious will make itself manifest for decades to come, and the challenges that it will pose to our possibilities of political action, poetic imagination, and therapy.
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The Third Unconscious
A wide-ranging exploration of the present, and the future, of the Unconcious

The Unconscious knows no time, it has no before-and-after, it does not have a history of its own. Yet, it does not always remain the same. Different political and economic conditions transform the way in which the Unconscious emerges within the "psychosphere" of society. In the early 20th century, Freud characterized the Unconscious as the dark side of the well-order framework of Progress and Reason. At the end of the past century, Deleuze and Guattari described it as a laboratory: the magmatic force ceaselessly bringing to the fore new possibilities of imagination. Today, at a time of viral pandemics and in the midst of the catastrophic collapse of capitalism, the Unconscious has begun to emerge in yet another form. In this book, Franco 'Bifo' Berardi vividly portraits the form in which the Unconscious will make itself manifest for decades to come, and the challenges that it will pose to our possibilities of political action, poetic imagination, and therapy.
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The Third Unconscious

The Third Unconscious

by Franco Bifo Berardi
The Third Unconscious

The Third Unconscious

by Franco Bifo Berardi

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A wide-ranging exploration of the present, and the future, of the Unconcious

The Unconscious knows no time, it has no before-and-after, it does not have a history of its own. Yet, it does not always remain the same. Different political and economic conditions transform the way in which the Unconscious emerges within the "psychosphere" of society. In the early 20th century, Freud characterized the Unconscious as the dark side of the well-order framework of Progress and Reason. At the end of the past century, Deleuze and Guattari described it as a laboratory: the magmatic force ceaselessly bringing to the fore new possibilities of imagination. Today, at a time of viral pandemics and in the midst of the catastrophic collapse of capitalism, the Unconscious has begun to emerge in yet another form. In this book, Franco 'Bifo' Berardi vividly portraits the form in which the Unconscious will make itself manifest for decades to come, and the challenges that it will pose to our possibilities of political action, poetic imagination, and therapy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781839762536
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 10/26/2021
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 5.76(w) x 8.54(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Franco 'Bifo' Berardi is a theorist and cultural agitator. He was the founder of the pirate radio station Radio Alice in 1976. One of the most prominent members of Autonomia, Berardi, worked closely with the French psychoanalyst Felix Guattari throughout the 1980s. His latest books in English are Futurability: The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility; And: Phenomenology of the End; Breathing: Chaos and Poetry.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Part I On the Threshold

1 Threshold/Poetry 3

2 Beyond the Breakdown 13

3 Semiotics of the Virus 20

4 The Spectrum and the Horizon 26

5 Psycho-systemic Collapse 33

6 Freedom and Potency 42

Part II The Imminent Psycho-Sphere

7 Unconscious/Verdrängung 55

8 Autistic Mindscape 69

9 XXX 74

10 Sad Is Eros 84

Part III Becoming Nothing

11 Mythology of the End 97

12 Questioning Senility 102

13 Making Friends with Death 114

14 Pleasure and Desire 122

15 Exhaustion 128

16 The American Insurrection as Preventive Psychotherapy 144

17 Nothingness - the Alzheimer's of God 151

Notes 160

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