Intoxication, modernity, and colonialism : Freud's industrial unconscious, Benjamin's hashish mimesis /: Freud's industrial unconscious, Benjamin's hashish mimesis. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Dušan I. Bjelić.
• Authors: Bjelić, Dušan I
• Contents: Introduction : on poison and reason -- Cocaine : modernity's two orders of colonialism -- Freud's "cocaine episode" on Benjamin's hashish -- Freud's somatic Paris : the Benjaminian thesis -- Freud's cocaine dreams and memories -- Freud's conquest and the Balkans' Orientalist phantasmagoria -- Benjamin's unconscous colonialism -- The "unforlding leaf" as Ariadne's thread. Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction: On€Poison and€Reason; Mimesis; Freud: Cocaine; Benjamin: Hashish; Notes; References; Chapter 2: Cocaine: Modernity's Two Orders of€Colonialisms; The Conquest of€the€Americas: The€First Order of€Colonialism; Cocaine: The€Second Order of€Colonialism; Notes; References; Chapter 3: Freud's "Cocaine Episode" on Benjamin's Hashish; "On Coca" 1884; Walter Benjamin on€Hashish; Notes; References; Chapter 4: Freud's Somatic Paris: The€Benjaminian Thesis; The Parisian Phantasmagoria and€Freud's Colonial Unconscious. Parisian Phantasmagoria as€a€Second Order of€Nervous ColonialismFreud's Flâneur; Charcot's Hysteria; Hysteria: The€Medical Poster of€the€Parisian Phantasmagoria; Notes; References; Chapter 5: Freud's Cocaine Dreams and€Memories; There Is an€Alkaloid in€Psychoanalysis; Dream of€"Irma's Injection"; Dream: "Botanical Monograph"; "Screen Memories"; The Cocaine Context for€Two Dreams and€One "Screen" Memory; Chemistry's Industrial Unconscious; Alchemy Is the€Unconscious of€the€Language of€Chemistry; References; Chapter 6: Freud's Conquest and€the€Balkans' Orientalist Phantasmagoria. Messianism of€Two ExilesFreud's Messianic Demonology; Freud's "Redemption Through€Sin": On€"Rape" and€"Conquest"; Freud the€"Bosnian Turk": On€Polygamy Beyond€"Good and€Evil"; On Sexual Toxin and€Forgetting; "Oedipal Conflict" and€Unconscious Colonialism; On the€Acropolis: The€Phantasmagoria of€Hellenism; Notes; References; Chapter 7: Benjamin's Unconscious Colonialism; Mexico's Benjamin and€Freud's Colonial Unconscious; Note; References; Chapter 8: The "Unfolding Leaf" as€Ariadne's Thread; References; Bibliography; Subject Index; Name Index.
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 150.19/52; Psychology; Civilization -- History; Drug abuse -- History; Psychoanalysis; Religion and culture; Self; PSYCHOLOGY -- Reference; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural & Social; Civilization; Drug abuse; Psychoanalysis; Psychology; Religion and culture; Self; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137588562; 1349950726; 9781349950720
• Related ISBNs: 113758856X; 9781349950720; 1349950726
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource, title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 4, 2017).
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