León Rozitchner’s Mass Psychology

Autor: Karen Benezra
Rok vydání: 2016
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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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