Intoxication, Modernity, and Colonialism e-bog
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This book depicts how Freud's cocaine and Benjamin's hashish illustrate two critiques of modernity and two messianic emancipations through the pleasures of intoxicating discourse. Freud discovered the "e;libido"e; and "e;unconscious"e; in the industrial mimetic scheme of cocaine, whereas Benjamin found an inspiration for his critique of phantasmagoria and its variant psychoanaly...
E-bog
948,41 DKK
Forlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Udgivet
25 januar 2017
Genrer
Cultural studies
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781137588562
This book depicts how Freud's cocaine and Benjamin's hashish illustrate two critiques of modernity and two messianic emancipations through the pleasures of intoxicating discourse. Freud discovered the "e;libido"e; and "e;unconscious"e; in the industrial mimetic scheme of cocaine, whereas Benjamin found an inspiration for his critique of phantasmagoria and its variant psychoanalysis in hashish's mimesis. In addition, as part of the history of colonialism, both drugs generated two distinct colonial discourses and, consequently, two different understandings of the emancipatory powers of pleasure, the unconscious, and dreams. After all, great ideas don't liberate; they intoxicate.