By applying psychoanalytic perspectives to key themes, concepts,
and practices underlying the development enterprise, Confronting
Desire offers a new way of analyzing the problems, challenges, and
potentialities of international development. Ilan Kapoor makes a
compelling case for examining development's unconscious desires and
in the process inaugurates a new field of study: psychoanalytic
development studies. Drawing from the work of Jacques Lacan and
Slavoj Zizek, as well as from psychoanalytic postcolonial and
feminist scholarship, Kapoor analyzes how development's unconscious
desires "speak out," most often in excessive and unpredictable ways
that contradict the outwardly rational declarations of its
practitioners. He investigates development's many
irrationalities-from obsessions about growth and poverty to the
perverse seductions of racism and over-consumption. By deploying
key psychoanalytic concepts-enjoyment, fantasy, antagonism,
fetishism, envy, drive, perversion, and hysteria-Confronting Desire
critically analyzes important issues in development-growth,
poverty, inequality, participation, consumption, corruption,
gender, "race," LGBTQ politics, universality, and revolution.
Confronting Desire offers prescriptions for applying psychoanalysis
to development theory and practice and demonstrates how
psychoanalysis can provide fertile ground for radical politics and
the transformation of international development.
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