| Intoxication, Modernity, and Colonialism: Freud's Industrial Unconscious, Benjamin's Hashish Mimesis Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Bjelic, Dusan I. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1349957216 ISBN-13: 9781349957217 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $113.99 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science - Reference - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 050 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.84 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. |