Description
| Product ID: | 9781642591965 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Studies in Critical Social Sciences |
| Title: | Reaction Formation: Dialogism, Ideology, and Capitalist Culture |
| Subtitle: | The Creation of the Modern Unconscious |
| Authors: | Author: Jonathan Hall |
| Page Count: | 285 |
| Subjects: | Social and political philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Sociology, Social, group or collective psychology, Sociology, Social, group or collective psychology |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A ground-breaking new examination of the formation of the modern unconscious 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Haymarket Books |
| Publisher Name: | Haymarket Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-08-04 |
