Titlebook: Intoxication, Modernity, and Colonialism; Freud’s Industrial U Dušan I.‘Bjelić Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 20

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Introduction: On Poison and Reason,of how drugs stimulated their reflections on modernity. I argue that Freud and Benjamin were not addicted to chemicals but rather to drug-related ideas with Messianic overtones. The chapter elaborates on the ways in which Freud’s and Benjamin’s main concepts, such as “unconscious,” “phantasmagoria,”

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,Freud’s “Cocaine Episode” , Benjamin’s Hashish,tings on cocaine, Freud confused the effect of cocaine with the effects of Indians chewing coca leaves. On the basis of the beneficial properties known to the Indians, he promoted cocaine as a universal medicine for depression, migraine, neurasthenia, and so on, only to learn after using cocaine to

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,Freud’s Somatic Paris: The Benjaminian Thesis, largest in Africa, Paris represented the center of the primal colonialism, but in Benjamin’s extensive analysis of the city, the Parisian phantasmagoria as an industrially produced culture of the commodity fetish worked as a toxin colonizing urban nerves. The city’s urban renewal, mixing arts and i

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,Freud’s Cocaine Dreams and Memories,his was marked by Freud’s analytical shift from hysteria and sexual neuroses to dream and infantile memory analysis in which his cocaine cravings configured not only his dream work but also his dream analysis. By tracing the associative relationship between cocaine and his infantile memories, Freud

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,Freud’s Conquest and the Balkans’ Orientalist Phantasmagoria,st fantasies about the sexual life of the “Bosnian Turk” had intoxicating qualities. Regarding the unconscious of Europe, Freud entered the Balkan geography at the peak of his self-analysis and his sexual neuroses. As many of his sexual issues were related to his sister in-law Minna Bernays, Freud h

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,The “Unfolding Leaf” as Ariadne’s Thread,gical studies on the metamorphosis of plants, which had influenced both thinkers’ language of intoxication, may work as an Ariadne’s thread inside the labyrinth of Modernity. For Goethe, the plant was an unfolding leaf, which signifies the mimetic powers of nature, and in such capacity it stood as a

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,The “Unfolding Leaf” as Ariadne’s Thread,n ideational intoxication in relation to his work. Cocaine and hashish are plant-based drugs, and in this regard, the very idea of a plant as nature’s mimesis, the chapter hypothesizes, offers a way out of “our narcotic Modernity.”

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