Reaction Formations: Dialogism, Ideology, and Capitalist Culture

The Creation of the Modern Unconscious

von Jonathan Hall

286 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Bakhtin and Voloshinov argued that dialogue is the intersubjective basis of consciousness, and of the creativity which makes historical changes in consciousness possible. The multiple dialogical relationships give every subject, who has developed through internalising them, the potential to distance him or herself from them. Consciousness is therefore an "unfinalised" process, always open to a possible future which would not merely reiterate the past. But this book explores its corollary: The relative openness is a field of conflict where rival discourses struggle for hegemony, by subordinating or eliminating their rivals. That is how the unconscious is created out of socio-historical conflicts. Hegemony is always incomplete, because there is always the possibility of a return of its repressed rivals in new combinations.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Politik und Staat Politische Ideologien und Bewegungen Politische Ideologien und Bewegungen der extremen Linken
• ISBN: 9789004411647
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.08.2019
• Größe: 236 x 160 mm
• Verlag: Brill