Freud and the Limits of Bourgeois Individualism
Len Rozitchner author Bruno Bosteels editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Haymarket Books
Published:29th Nov '22
Should be back in stock very soon
Offering an in-depth interpretation of Sigmund Freud's 'collective' or 'social' works, León Rozitchner insists that the Left should consider the ways in which capitalism inscribes its power in the subject as the site for the verification of history. Thus, after a brief commentary on Freud's New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, the present book provides the reader with a chapter-by-chapter analysis of Civilisation and Its Discontents and Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. Freud's views, according to Rozitchner's original reading, offer a striking contribution to a materialist theory and history of subjectivity.
This book was first published in Spanish as Freud y los límites del individualismo burgués by Siglo XXI Editores, 1972.
“Léon Rozitchner’s Freud and the Limits of Bourgeois Individualism is a stunning achievement, a work that should be considered next to Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization and Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus in the pantheon of Freudo-Marxist interventions.”
—Daniel Tutt, European Journal of Psychoanalysis
“Sitting next to the couch, Rozitchner animates the Freudian texts in pursuit of its limits, which reflect on our own. Rozitchner’s reading is explanatory and cathartic, both for the writer and the reader.”
—Michael Maidan, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
ISBN: 9781642597851
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522 pages