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POLITICAL FREUD - ELI ZARETSKY KARTONIERT (TB)

In this masterful history  Eli Zaretsky reveals the power of Freudian thought to illuminate the
great political conflicts of the twentieth century. Developing an original concept of political
Freudianism  he shows how twentieth-century radicals  activists  and intellectuals used
psychoanalytic ideas to probe consumer capitalism  racial violence  anti-Semitism  and
patriarchy. He also underscores the continuing influence and critical potential of those ideas
in the transformed landscape of the present. Zaretsky's conception of political Freudianism
unites the two overarching themes of the last century - totalitarianism and consumerism - in a
single framework. He finds that theories of mass psychology and the unconscious were central to
the study of fascism and the Holocaust  to African American radical thought  particularly the
struggle to overcome the legacy of slavery  to the rebellions of the 1960s  and to the feminism
and gay liberation movements of the 1970s. Nor did the influence of political Freud end when
the era of Freud bashing began. Rather  Zaretsky proves that political Freudianism is alive
today in cultural studies  the study of memory  theories of trauma  postcolonial thought  film
media and computer studies  evolutionary theory and even economics.

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