Overview
- Builds on the work of an extensive range of theorists to further the debate on the role of bourgeois enjoyment
- Highlights the often forgotten significance of desire as an important force which goes against traditional understandings of capitalism
- Re)introduces ‘bourgeois’ as an important analytic term within the field of psychology
Part of the book series: Studies in the Psychosocial (STIP)
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So far, most anticapitalist and decolonial struggles in the West have been hesitant when engaging with the issue of bourgeois enjoyment as the main source of capitalism’s resilience. This exciting new work draws on an extensive range of theorists such as Butler, Copjec, Žižek and Zupancic to emphasise the importance of psychological mechanisms irreducible to rationality or knowledge such as desire, enjoyment, and the obscure nature of selfhood in the reiteration of the current capitalist reality.
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Book Title: Enjoyment and Submission in Modern Fantasy
Authors: Mihnea Panu
Series Title: Studies in the Psychosocial
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51321-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-51320-5Published: 17 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-70278-7Published: 07 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-51321-2Published: 03 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2662-2629
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2637
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 239
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Self and Identity, Psychoanalysis, Emotion, Cultural Studies