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PublisherHaymarket Books
ISBN-101642591963
ISBN-139781642591965
eBay Product ID (ePID)19038823302
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Book TitleReaction Formation: Dialogism, Ideology, and Capitalist Culture : The Creation of the Modern Unconscious
Number of Pages285 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicSocial, Individual Philosophers, General, Political
Publication Year2020
GenrePhilosophy, Psychology
AuthorJonathan Hall
Book SeriesStudies in Critical Social Sciences Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight14.8 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal153
Table Of ContentAcknowledgements Introduction Dialogism: the Potential for Change and for Resistance to Change The Fissured Modern Subject: Paradox versus "Becoming" in Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground Rethinking Ideology as a Field of Dialogical Conflict A Contradictory Symbiosis is Born: the Rival Ideologies of the Market and the State under Capitalism Captivating the Unruly Subject: Ideology in Early Modern Europe Repairing the Universe: Mysticism as Loss and Longing Baroque Incompletion, the Captivated Subject, and the Humour of Don Quijote The Dialectics of Laughter and Anxiety Conclusion Bibliography Index
SynopsisBakhtin and Voloshinov argued that dialogue is the intersubjective basis of consciousness, and of the creativity which makes historical changes in consciousness possible. The multiple dialogical relationships give every subject, who has developed through internalising them, the potential to distance him or herself from them. Consciousness is therefore an "unfinalised" process, always open to a possible future which would not merely reiterate the past. But this book explores its corollary: The relative openness is a field of conflict where rival discourses struggle for hegemony, by subordinating or eliminating their rivals. That is how the unconscious is created out of socio-historical conflicts. Hegemony is always incomplete, because there is always the possibility of a return of its repressed rivals in new combinations.
LC Classification NumberBF311
