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Bringing psychoanalysis to bear on the diagnosis of ecological
crisis  Why has psychoanalysis long been kept at the margins
of environmental criticism despite the many theories of
eco-Marxism, queer ecology, and eco-deconstruction available today?
What is unique, possibly even traumatic, about eco-psychoanalysis?
The Environmental Unconscious addresses these questions as it
provides an innovative and theoretical account of environmental
loss focused on the counterintuitive forms of enjoyment that early
modern poetry and psychoanalysis jointly theorize. Steven Swarbrick
urges literary critics and environmental scholars fluent in the new
materialism to rethink notions of entanglement, animacy, and
consciousness raising. He introduces concepts from psychoanalysis
as keys to understanding the force of early modern ecopoetics.
Through close readings of Edmund Spenser, Walter Ralegh, Andrew
Marvell, and John Milton, he reveals a world of matter that is not
merely hyperconnected, as in the new materialism, but porous and
off-kilter. And yet the loss these poets reveal is central to the
enjoyment their works offer—and that nature offers. As insightful
as it is engaging, The Environmental Unconscious offers a
provocative challenge to ecocriticism that, under the current
regime of fossil capitalism in which everything solid
interconnects, a new theory of disconnection is desperately needed.
Tracing the propulsive force of the environmental unconscious from
the early modern period to Freudian and post-Freudian theories of
desire, Swarbrick not only puts nature on the couch in this book
but also renews the psychoanalytic toolkit in light of
environmental collapse.
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