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About this book
Exploring how a Freudian-Lacanian approach to psychoanalysis intersects with social and cultural theory, Lacan, Jouissance, and the Social Sciences demonstrates the significance of subjectivity as a concept for the study of leadership, social psychology, culture, and political theory.
Raul Moncayo examines Lacan's notion of surplus jouissance in relation to four types of socio-economic value: Productive Value, Exchange Value, Surplus Value, and Profit. Also drawing on the work of Slavoj Žižek, Moncayo contends that surplus production cannot be reduced to alienated labor but rather includes various levels of jouissance-value. In this way, the jouissance that drives capitalization and organization can be theorized as constructive rather than destructive and encompass satisfaction and prosperity rather than individual suffering and asceticism or living with less.
This volume will be of great interest to psychoanalysts both in practice and in training and to academics and scholars of psychoanalytic studies, Lacanian studies, and social sciences.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsement Page
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The Primal Horde of Primates and Early Humans
- 2 The Primordial History of Symbolic Exchange
- 3 Benevolent Tyranny and Love as a Motive for Repression
- 4 The Group
- 5 The Polis
- 6 Practice and Labor as Undivided Activity, Alienated Labor, and the Question of Surplus Value
- 7 The One and the Many
- 8 Equality, Inequality, Meritocracy, Excellence, Talent, Defect, and Disability
- 9 Animal and Human Spirits or Jouissance in the Economy
- Appendix I: An Outline of the History of the Symbolic Order or the History of Human Wisdom and Knowledge
- Appendix II: Theory of the Libido and Lacan’s Three Jouissances: Freud, Jung, Bion, and Lacan
- Glossary
- Index