Enjoyment and Submission in Modern Fantasy (repost)
Enjoyment and Submission in Modern Fantasy (Studies in the Psychosocial) by Mihnea Panu
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1137513209 | 239 pages | PDF | 2,7 MB
This book reveals the workings of the bourgeois passion for submission in a variety of contemporary contexts. By (re)introducing the concept ‘bourgeois’ as an analytical term and describing this contemporary subject as a psychic economy rather than just as a social class, Panu shows the intractability of contemporary forms of enjoyment and neoliberalism’s periodic outbursts of aggressiveness to be connected by a recurrent circuit of trauma and anxiety originating in the bourgeois subject’s difficult relationship with symbolic authority.