Confronting desire: psychoanalysis and international development
by Kapoor, Ilan
"This book critically analyzes important current issues in international development-growth, poverty, inequality, participation, consumption, corruption, gender, race, LGBT politics, revolution, universalism-by deploying key psychoanalytic concepts-enjoyment, fantasy, antagonism, fetishism, envy, drive, perversion, hysteria. It draws on the work of Lacan and Žižek, and on psychoanalytic postcolonial and feminist scholarship"--
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- Full title :Confronting desire : psychoanalysis and international development / Ilan Kapoor.
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"This book critically analyzes important current issues in international development-growth, poverty, inequality, participation, consumption, corruption, gender, race, LGBT politics, revolution, universalism-by deploying key psychoanalytic concepts-enjoyment, fantasy, antagonism, fetishism, envy, drive, perversion, hysteria. It draws on the work of Lacan and Žižek, and on psychoanalytic postcolonial and feminist scholarship"--
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- Publication Date:©2020
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cornell University Press
- Place of Publication:Ithaca [New York]
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2020
The Physical Object
- Description:xvi, 307 pages ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781501751721, 1501751727, 9781501751752, 1501751751
- oclc:on1138494436
- LC Classification:BF175.4.S65
- Dewey Decimal:150.19/5
Table of Contents
Psychoanalysis and international development -- Post-development's surrender to global capitalism : a psychoanalytic critique -- The universalist dimensions of antagonism -- What "drives" capitalist development? -- Capitalism as envy-machine -- Fetishism in international development : domination, disavowal, and foreclosure -- The "gaze" in international development : panoptic or traumatic? -- When sex = (socially constructed) gender, what is lost, politically? Psychoanalytic reflections on gender and development -- The politics of perversion and hysteria in the Tunisian revolution and its aftermath -- The queer Third World -- The racist enjoyments and fantasies of international development -- Development and the poor : enjoy your symptom!
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