Global Libidinal Economy (eBook)

Gavin Fridell, Ilan Kapoor, Maureen Sioh, Pieter de Vries (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
220 Seiten
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-9337-4 (ISBN)

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This is the first book to examine global political economy from a psychoanalytic perspective. It claims that the libidinal-the site of unconscious desire-plays not a supplementary or trivial, but a constitutive role in global political economy. Consumption, for example, is not simply a way of satisfying a material or biological need but a doomed attempt at soothing our deeply held sense of loss; and capital is not just a means to material growth and prosperity but is invested with "e;drive"e; that seduces, beguiles, and manipulates in the service of unending accumulation. Thus, in contrast to political economy, which assumes a rational subject, libidinal economy is founded on the notion of a desiring subject, who obeys a logic not of good sense or self-interest but profligacy and irrationality. By applying a psychoanalytic lens, Global Libidinal Economy thereby seeks to uncover the unconscious excesses and antagonisms emergent in such key political economy categories as "e;production,"e; "e;trade,"e; and "e;ecology,"e; while also bringing out significant contemporary themes relating to "e;gender"e; and "e;race."e;

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2023
• Zusatzinfo: Total Illustrations: 0
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• ISBN-10: 1-4384-9337-1 / 1438493371
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4384-9337-4 / 9781438493374