León Rozitchner’s Mass Psychology
| Autor: | Karen Benezra |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Cultural Studies
Literature History Psychoanalysis Emancipation business.industry 05 social sciences Freud's Psychoanalytic Theories 0506 political science Politics Social reproduction Individualism 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration Bourgeoisie Ego psychology Sociology 050207 economics Crowd psychology business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. 25:515-532 |
| ISSN: | 1469-9575 1356-9325 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13569325.2016.1229662 |
| Popis: | Argentinean philosopher Leon Rozitchner theorized the political potential of the Peronist movement through a unique analytical matrix drawing upon Marxism, psychoanalysis and phenomenology. This essay will explore how Rozitchner’s interpretation of Freud’s theory of group psychology in Freud y los limites del individualismo burgues (Freud and the Limits of Bourgeois Individualism, 1972) approaches the figure of the mass in ethical, political and historical terms. I argue that Rozitchner articulates these three dimensions of the mass by viewing its libidinal constitution through a unique historical-materialist lens. Freud y los limites… thus asks us to consider the question of the drive’s sublimation at stake in Freud’s theory as a technique of social reproduction and, simultaneously, as a directly productive form of labour. In this sense, the organization of libidinal investment that constitutes the mass also holds the key to its potential social emancipation. Furthermore, while Rozitchner’s view of subje... |
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