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Can Psychoanalysis Fight Capitalism?
A recent paper argues that psychoanalysis can aid left-wing political struggles as “preparatory work for revolution.”
www.madinamerica.com/2022/05/can-psychoanalysis-fight-capitalism/
An article published in the journal History of the Present discusses the history of progressive politics’ intersection with the field of psychoanalysis. Author Alex Colston argues that psychoanalysis and left-wing political movements such as communism may have a mutually beneficial relationship. However, it is a relationship with a long and complicated history, beginning with Sigmund Freud’s political ambivalence. Colston quotes Freud:
“If a culture has not got beyond a point at which the satisfaction of one portion of its participants depends upon the suppression of another, and perhaps larger, portion—and this is the case in all present-day cultures—it is understandable that the suppressed people should develop an intense hostility towards a culture whose existence they make possible by their work, but in whose wealth they have too small a share.
In such conditions, an internalization of the cultural prohibitions among the suppressed people is not to be expected…it goes without saying that a civilization that leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.”.
RESEARCH ARTICLE| APRIL 01 2022
Left Freudians: The Psychoanalytic Politics of Disobedience
read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-the-present/article-abstract/12/1/127/297122/Left-FreudiansThe-Psychoanalytic-Politics-of
A recent paper argues that psychoanalysis can aid left-wing political struggles as “preparatory work for revolution.”
www.madinamerica.com/2022/05/can-psychoanalysis-fight-capitalism/
An article published in the journal History of the Present discusses the history of progressive politics’ intersection with the field of psychoanalysis. Author Alex Colston argues that psychoanalysis and left-wing political movements such as communism may have a mutually beneficial relationship. However, it is a relationship with a long and complicated history, beginning with Sigmund Freud’s political ambivalence. Colston quotes Freud:
“If a culture has not got beyond a point at which the satisfaction of one portion of its participants depends upon the suppression of another, and perhaps larger, portion—and this is the case in all present-day cultures—it is understandable that the suppressed people should develop an intense hostility towards a culture whose existence they make possible by their work, but in whose wealth they have too small a share.
In such conditions, an internalization of the cultural prohibitions among the suppressed people is not to be expected…it goes without saying that a civilization that leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.”.
RESEARCH ARTICLE| APRIL 01 2022
Left Freudians: The Psychoanalytic Politics of Disobedience
read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-the-present/article-abstract/12/1/127/297122/Left-FreudiansThe-Psychoanalytic-Politics-of