| 书目名称 | The Psychopathology of American Capitalism |
| 编辑 | Thomas Paul Bonfiglio |
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| 概述 | Features a unique combination of Marxism and psychoanalysis to explain the anomalous condition of American capitalism.Employs psychoanalysis to account for identity politics and the resistance to alte |
| 丛书名称 | Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice |
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| 描述 | This book synthesizes psychoanalytic and Marxist techniques in order to illuminate the resistance to a socialization of the American economy, the protectionist discourses of anomalous American capitalism, and the suppression of the capitalist welfare state. After the Second World War, Democrats and Republicans effectively eliminated the communist and socialist parties from the American political spectrum and suppressed their allied labor movements. The right-wing shift of both parties fabricated a false opposition of left and right that does not correspond to political oppositions in the industrialized democracies. Marxist perspectives can account for the massive inequality of the political economy, but they are insufficient for illuminating its preservation. Psychoanalysis is necessary in order to explain why Americans continue to vote within a two-party system that neglects the lower classes, and why the working class tendsto vote against its own interests. The psychoanalytic techniques employed include doubling, repetition, displacement, condensation, inversion, denial, fetishizing, and cognitive repression. In examining the fixation upon the proxy binary of Democrat vs. Republi |
| 出版日期 | Book 2017 |
| 关键词 | Marx; Freud; capitalism; Deleuze; Guattari; Zizek; welfare state; two-party system; fetishism; anticommunism; |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55592-8 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-85702-2 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-55592-8Series ISSN 2731-6580 Series E-ISSN 2731-6599 |
| issn_series | 2731-6580 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 |
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