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Subterranean Politics and Freud’s Legacy

Part of the Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137349378

ISBN: 978-1-349-46116-5

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 28, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Buzby, Amy

Pages: 1 –9

[When Sigmund Freud died in London on September 23, 1939, many mourned a therapist, some mourned an intellectual, but few mourned a radical. The handful that appreciated Freud as a revolutionary, however, did him the fuller honor and themselves the better service. Although Freud is generally read...
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Chapter 2Freud and the Critical Method

Buzby, Amy

Pages: 11 –37

[Sigmund Freud was a man who played many roles—most notably thinker, therapist, pioneer, and, yes, bourgeois—and he was fearless in all of them. Even an unsympathetic reading of Freud, indeed, must cede that as both theorist and practitioner, he was uncowed by either the challenges society threw...
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Chapter 3Freud and the Critical Theory of Society

Buzby, Amy

Pages: 39 –60

[One major contribution psychoanalysis could make to critical theory in the present is the restoration of its compassion, its firm insistence that an unjust, disillusioned world be prodded to recognize the basic interpersonal demands of shared humanity. The project of critical theory is indeed,...
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Chapter 4Psychoanalysis as Humanism: Reclaiming Eros for Critical Theory

Buzby, Amy

Pages: 61 –91

[The psychoanalytic process can neither be theorized nor practiced without an accounting of the drive that allows it to heal, unite and, above all, to mobilize: Eros. To understand Eros, however, is a tricky prospect. At its origins, Eros figures primarily in Greek mythology as the companion and...
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Chapter 5New Foundations for Resistance: The Marcuse-Fromm Debate Revisited

Buzby, Amy

Pages: 93 –113

[At this point in the argument, it is necessary to undertake the Benjaminian work of searching among critical theory’s own scrapheap o further the discussion of Eros and its relation to resistance. Erich Fromm, once a member of the Institute for Social Research, was a prolific intellectual whose...
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Chapter 6Working through the Past: Psychoanalysis, Critical Theory, and Bad Conscience

Buzby, Amy

Pages: 115 –151

[Although we often think of guilt as simply part of basic emotional life, it is important to recognize at this point in the argument that it is a critical political problem. With the scale of socially engineered rape and murder in the twentieth century, and sadly heretofore in the twenty-first,...
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Chapter 7Wrong Life Lived Rightly: Sublimation, Identification, and the Restoration of Subjectivity

Buzby, Amy

Pages: 153 –173

[Critical theory’s effort to restore subjectivity and resist domination rightly leads to the search for and rejection of all tendencies that cause the subject to introject and reproduce his own domination. Because psychoanalysis focuses in large part on the developmental path by which the subject...
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Chapter 8Concluding Remarks

Buzby, Amy

Pages: 175 –176

[This is a ripe moment for the radical work of critical theory. Even eyes usually blind to the horrors of the present cannot remain closed before mass shootings and massacred children. Even those who usually feel nothing but contempt or indifference for the other must feel something when...

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