| Intoxication, Modernity, and Colonialism: Freud's Industrial Unconscious, Benjamin's Hashish Mimesis 2016 Edition Contributor(s): Bjelic, Dusan I. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1349950726 ISBN-13: 9781349950720 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $113.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science - Reference - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 050 |
| LCCN: 2016962790 |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 6.22" W x 8.65" (1.43 lbs) 307 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book depicts how Freud's cocaine and Benjamin's hashish illustrate two critiques of modernity and two messianic emancipations through the pleasures of intoxicating discourse. Freud discovered the "libido" and "unconscious" in the industrial mimetic scheme of cocaine, whereas Benjamin found an inspiration for his critique of phantasmagoria and its variant psychoanalysis in hashish's mimesis. In addition, as part of the history of colonialism, both drugs generated two distinct colonial discourses and, consequently, two different understandings of the emancipatory powers of pleasure, the unconscious, and dreams. After all, great ideas don't liberate; they intoxicate. |