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Philosophy and Working-through the Past - A Psychoanalytic Approach to Social Pathologies (Hardcover)
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Philosophy and Working-through the Past - A Psychoanalytic Approach to Social Pathologies (Hardcover)
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At certain moments in his political essays, Kant conceives of
socio-historical emancipation as a process of working ourselves out
of pathological legacies, suggesting that emancipation would
involve a process of working through our affective attachments to
entrenched, regressive social arrangements. Jackson shows how Freud
s analyses of melancholia, mania and the work of mourning can
contribute to an understanding of key dimensions of such
pathological social fixations, as well as the possibility of
working through the past. This book argues that bringing Freud s
provocative analyses of loss to bear on particular philosophical
treatments of history leads to a more coherent, psychoanalytically
informed understanding of history. Although Freud does not himself
integrate these themes into a theory of socio-political
emancipation, his thinking nonetheless can be read as contributing
to such a theory. To develop this idea the book draws on thinkers
such as Karl Marx, Theodor Adorno, Edmund Husserl, Martin
Heidegger, Axel Honneth, and Judith Butler. The book engages
students and scholars of contemporary continental philosophy by
arguing for connections between psychoanalysis, philosophy, and
critical theory.
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