Political Freud by Eli Zaretsky

Author:Eli Zaretsky
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science/History and Theory, History/Modern/20th Century, PSY026000, Psychology/Movements/Psychoanalysis
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2015-11-02T16:00:00+00:00

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The Ego at War

From the Death Instinct to Precarious Life

Psychoanalysis and the Spirit of War

Like capitalism, racism, and anti-Semitism, the problem of war has spawned a substantial body of political Freudian reflection. The main reason for this has been that twentieth-century wars have been “total wars,” which blurred the boundaries between battlegrounds and home fronts and forced governments to motivate the masses to lay down their lives. This required a new spirit of war that might be likened to the new spirit of capitalism discussed in chapter 1. In participating in these wars, and in seeking to understand them psychoanalytically, something like a theory not just of war but of the twentieth-century subject emerged.

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