Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Postmodern University (Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice)
9783030349202, 9783030349219, 3030349209
Critical theory draws on Marxism, psychoanalysis, postmodern and poststructuralist theorists. Marxism and psychoanalysis
136
14
79KB
English
Pages 203
[196]
Report DMCA / Copyright
DOWNLOAD PDF FILE
Table of contents :
Preface
Acknowledgments
Praise for Psychoanalysis, Politics, and the Postmodern University
Contents
Chapter 1: Critical Theory and the Problem of Authority
Types of Authority and the Limits of Trust
Modes of Authority and Critical Theory
References
Chapter 2: Freud in America: The Golden Age, the Freud Wars, and Beyond
Psychoanalysis American Style: The Golden Age
The Freud Wars
References
Chapter 3: Jacques Lacan and Louis Althusser: Return to Freud?
Lacan and Family
Lacan Interprets Freud: Crypto-Revisionism
Lacan, Freud, and Christianity: Anti-Semitism
A Return to Freud?
Louis Althusser
References
Chapter 4: Of Two Minds: Language and the Unconscious in Freud, Stern, and McGilchrist
Two Ways of Knowing
Karl Stern: The Poetic and Scientific Modes of Knowledge
Primary and Secondary Processes: The Birth of the Ego
The Question of Faith and the Crisis of Modernity
References
Chapter 5: Trump, Authoritarianism, and the End of American Democracy
Once Upon a Time in America
Wilhelm Reich and Erich Fromm
Authoritarianism in America: Adorno and Co.
Left-Wing Authoritarianism and Islamism
Authoritarianism and Corruption
References
Chapter 6: Nietzsche, Postmodernism, and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion
Truth and Untruth: Errors, Illusions, and Falsehoods
Nietzsche, Marx, and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion
Nietzsche, Freud, and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion
References
Chapter 7: Jordan Peterson and the Postmodern University
Crisis in the Liberal Arts
Jordan Peterson and the Postmodern University
The Goals of University Education
Classical Liberal or Traditionalist Conservative?
Peterson, Jung, and Nietzsche
Peterson and the Left
Peterson and Contemporary American Conservatism
References
Chapter 8: Anti-Psychiatry: The End of the Road?
What Is Anti-Psychiatry?
A Brief History of the Term: Laing, Szasz, and Foucault
Sedgwick’s ‘Psychopolitics’ and Beyond
Psychiatry, Anti-Psychiatry, and Big Pharma
The Scope of Psychiatric Power: Then and Now
References
Afterword
References
Index