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Taking seriously Jacques Lacan's claim that 'the unconscious is
politics', this volume proposes a new understanding of political
power, interrogating the assumption that contemporary capitalism
functions by tapping into forms of unconscious enjoyment, rather
than providing transcendental conditions for the articulation of
political meanings and desires. Whether we're aware of it or not,
political communication today targets the audience's libidinal
response through political and institutional language: in policies,
speeches, tweets, social media appearances, gestures and images.
Yet does this mean that current power structures no longer need
symbolic or ideological frameworks? The authors in this volume
think not. Far from demonstrating a shift to a post-ideological
age, they argue instead that such methods inaugurate an altogether
novel approach to political power. Written by leading scholars from
around the world, including Roberto Esposito and Slavoj Zizek, each
chapter reflects on contemporary power and inspires consideration
of new political potentialities, which our focus on politics in
transcendental rather than immanent terms has thus far obscured. In
so doing, Capitalism and the New Political Unconscious provides an
original and forceful exploration of the centrality of both
psychoanalytic theory and the philosophy of immanence to an
alternative understanding of the political.
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