Intoxication, Modernity, and Colonialism - Freud's Industrial Unconscious, Benjamin's Hashish Mimesis (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)

This book depicts how Freud's cocaine and Benjamin's hashish illustrate two critiques of modernity and two messianic emancipations through the pleasures of intoxicating discourse. Freud discovered the "libido" and "unconscious" in the industrial mimetic scheme of cocaine, whereas Benjamin found an inspiration for his critique of phantasmagoria and its variant psychoanalysis in hashish's mimesis. In addition, as part of the history of colonialism, both drugs generated two distinct colonial discourses and, consequently, two different understandings of the emancipatory powers of pleasure, the unconscious, and dreams. After all, great ideas don't liberate; they intoxicate.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2018
First published:	2016
Authors:	Dusan I. Bjelic
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	307
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-1-349-95721-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > The self, ego, identity, personality Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Religious groups Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	1-349-95721-6
Barcode:	9781349957217

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