Confronting desire: psychoanalysis and international development

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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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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
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2020

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xvi, 307 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1501751743, 9781501751738, 1501751735, 9781501751745
oclc:on1142922007
LC Classification:BF175.4.S65
Dewey Decimal:150.19/5

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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Développement économique economic development Interprétation psychanalytique Néo-libéralisme Neoliberalism postcolonialism Postcolonialisme Psychoanalytic Interpretation PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology Sciences sociales et psychanalyse Social sciences and psychoanalysis