The Psychopathology Of American Capitalism

Author : Thomas Paul Bonfiglio
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319555928
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Psychopathology of American Capitalism written by Thomas Paul Bonfiglio and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book synthesizes psychoanalytic and Marxist techniques in order to illuminate the resistance to a socialization of the American economy, the protectionist discourses of anomalous American capitalism, and the suppression of the capitalist welfare state. After the Second World War, Democrats and Republicans effectively eliminated the communist and socialist parties from the American political spectrum and suppressed their allied labor movements. The right-wing shift of both parties fabricated a false opposition of left and right that does not correspond to political oppositions in the industrialized democracies. Marxist perspectives can account for the massive inequality of the political economy, but they are insufficient for illuminating its preservation. Psychoanalysis is necessary in order to explain why Americans continue to vote within a two-party system that neglects the lower classes, and why the working class tends to vote against its own interests. The psychoanalytic techniques employed include doubling, repetition, displacement, condensation, inversion, denial, fetishizing, and cognitive repression. In examining the fixation upon the proxy binary of Democrat vs. Republican, which suppresses the true opposition of left vs. right and neutralizes alternatives, the work analyses numerous contemporary political issues through applications of Marxist psychoanalytic theory.

Author : Thomas Winterbottom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781549576638
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Psychology of American Capitalism written by Thomas Winterbottom and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the human mind, in particular that of the American working class, navigates the various cultural factors that have composed the American economy.

Author : Ron Roberts
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782796533
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychology and Capitalism written by Ron Roberts and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychology and Capitalism is a critical and accessible account of the ideological and material role of psychology in supporting capitalist enterprise and holding individuals entirely responsible for their fate through the promotion of individualism.

Author : Werner Sombart
Publisher : London : T.F. Unwin, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quintessence of Capitalism written by Werner Sombart and published by London : T.F. Unwin, Limited. This book was released on 1915 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kambiz Sakhai
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781692130701
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capitalism and Psychopathology written by Kambiz Sakhai and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that psychological suffering is the manifestation of the alienation caused by the double life that is imposed upon individuals in Capitalism. It identifies capitalism as the source of this suffering. The book demonstrates that psychopathologies like depression, paranoia, Borderline Personality, as well as the symptoms like hallucination, delusion, splitting, etc. are nothing but the requirements of this system. This claim is substantiated through a dialogue between the psychoanalytic discourse regarding mental illness and the Marxian critique of life under capitalism. Psychoanalysis finds the roots of psychopathology within the psyche of the individual while Marxian critique looks at the systemic dimensions of alienation and the suffring it causes. The author's claim is that Capitalism, alienation, and psychopathology are one and the same phenomena. It is not possible to get rid of one without the others.

Author : John Ehrenreich
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501703595
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Third Wave Capitalism written by John Ehrenreich and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Third Wave Capitalism, John Ehrenreich documents the emergence of a new stage in the history of American capitalism. Just as the industrial capitalism of the nineteenth century gave way to corporate capitalism in the twentieth, recent decades have witnessed corporate capitalism evolving into a new phase, which Ehrenreich calls "Third Wave Capitalism." Third Wave Capitalism is marked by apparent contradictions: Rapid growth in productivity and lagging wages; fabulous wealth for the 1 percent and the persistence of high levels of poverty; increases in the standard of living and increases in mental illness, personal misery, and political rage; the apotheosis of the individual and the deterioration of democracy; increases in life expectancy and out-of-control medical costs; an African American president and the incarceration of a large percentage of the black population. Ehrenreich asserts that these phenomena are evidence that a virulent, individualist, winner-take-all ideology and a virtual fusion of government and business have subverted the American dream. Greed and economic inequality reinforce the sense that each of us is "on our own." The result is widespread lack of faith in collective responses to our common problems. The collapse of any organized opposition to business demands makes political solutions ever more difficult to imagine. Ehrenreich traces the impact of these changes on American health care, school reform, income distribution, racial inequities, and personal emotional distress. Not simply a lament, Ehrenreich’s book seeks clues for breaking out of our current stalemate and proposes a strategy to create a new narrative in which change becomes possible.

Author : Todd McGowan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231542216
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capitalism and Desire written by Todd McGowan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders—but not because of what it withholds from some and gives to others. Capitalism dominates, Todd McGowan argues, because it mimics the structure of our desire while hiding the trauma that the system inflicts upon it. People from all backgrounds enjoy what capitalism provides, but at the same time are told more and better is yet to come. Capitalism traps us through an incomplete satisfaction that compels us after the new, the better, and the more. Capitalism's parasitic relationship to our desires gives it the illusion of corresponding to our natural impulses, which is how capitalism's defenders characterize it. By understanding this psychic strategy, McGowan hopes to divest us of our addiction to capitalist enrichment and help us rediscover enjoyment as we actually experienced it. By locating it in the present, McGowan frees us from our attachment to a better future and the belief that capitalism is an essential outgrowth of human nature. From this perspective, our economic, social, and political worlds open up to real political change. Eloquent and enlivened by examples from film, television, consumer culture, and everyday life, Capitalism and Desire brings a new, psychoanalytically grounded approach to political and social theory.

Author : Werner Sombart
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN 13 : 9780353534186
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quintessence of Capitalism: A Study of the History and Psychology of the Modern Business Man written by Werner Sombart and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Thomas Paul Bonfiglio
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100084546X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linguistics and Psychoanalysis written by Thomas Paul Bonfiglio and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-20 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking, provocative book presents an overview of research at the disciplinary intersection of psychoanalysis and linguistics. Understanding that linguistic activity, to a great extent, takes place in unconscious cognition, Thomas Paul Bonfiglio systematically demonstrates how fundamental psychoanalytic mechanisms—such as displacement, condensation, overdetermination, and repetition—have been absent in the history of linguistic inquiry, and explains how these mechanisms can illuminate the understanding of the grammatical structure, evolution, acquisition, and processing of language. Reexamining popular misunderstandings of psychoanalysis along the way, Bonfiglio further proposes a new theoretical configuration of language and expertly sets the future agenda on this subject with new conceptual paradigms for research and teaching. This will be an invaluable, fascinating resource for advanced students and scholars of theoretical and applied linguistics, the cognitive-behavioral sciences, metaphor studies, humor studies and play theory, anthropology, and beyond.

Author : Nelson Lichtenstein
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812239232
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Capitalism written by Nelson Lichtenstein and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American Capitalism is an important contribution to our understanding of postwar American thought and culture. It will force historians to revise their pantheon of important thinkers for the period."--George Cotkin, author of Existential America