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UNINA9910466020503321 |
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McGowan Todd |
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Capitalism and desire : the psychic cost of free markets / / Todd McGowan |
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New York ; ; Chichester, West Sussex, England : , : Columbia University Press, , 2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (305 pages) |
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Capitalism - Psychological aspects |
Capitalism - Social aspects |
Psychoanalysis - Philosophy |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: After Injustice and Repression -- 1. The Subject of Desire and the Subject of Capitalism -- 2. The Psychic Constitution of Private Space -- 3. Shielding Our Eyes from the Gaze -- 4. The Persistence of Sacrifice After Its Obsolescence -- 5. A God We Can Believe In -- 6. A More Tolerable Infinity -- 7. The Ends of Capitalism -- 8. Exchanging Love for Romance -- 9. Abundance and Scarcity -- 10. The Market's Fetishistic Sublime -- Conclusion: Enjoy, Don't Accumulate -- Notes -- Index |
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Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders-but not because of what it withholds from some and gives to others. Capitalism dominates, Todd McGowan argues, because it mimics the structure of our desire while hiding the trauma that the system inflicts upon it. People from all backgrounds enjoy what capitalism provides, but at the same time are told more and better is yet to come. Capitalism traps us through an incomplete satisfaction that compels us after the new, the better, and the more. Capitalism's parasitic relationship to our desires gives it the |
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illusion of corresponding to our natural impulses, which is how capitalism's defenders characterize it. By understanding this psychic strategy, McGowan hopes to divest us of our addiction to capitalist enrichment and help us rediscover enjoyment as we actually experienced it. By locating it in the present, McGowan frees us from our attachment to a better future and the belief that capitalism is an essential outgrowth of human nature. From this perspective, our economic, social, and political worlds open up to real political change. Eloquent and enlivened by examples from film, television, consumer culture, and everyday life, Capitalism and Desire brings a new, psychoanalytically grounded approach to political and social theory. |
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UNINA9910778104603321 |
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Autore |
Bhatia Sunil |
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American karma [[electronic resource] ] : race, culture, and identity in the Indian diaspora / / Sunil Bhatia |
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New York, : New York University Press, c2007 |
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1-4356-0744-9 |
0-8147-2311-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (284 p.) |
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Qualitative studies in psychology |
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East Indian Americans - Social conditions |
East Indian Americans - Ethnic identity |
Immigrants - United States - Social conditions |
United States Ethnic relations |
United States Emigration and immigration |
India Emigration and immigration |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-256) and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 American Karma -- 2 Qualitative Inquiry and Psychology -- 3 Des-Pardes in the American Suburbia -- 4 Saris, Chutney Sandwiches, and “Thick Accents” -- 5 Racism and Glass Ceilings -- 6 Analyzing |
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Assignations and Assertions -- 7 Imagining Homes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
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The Indian American community is one of the fastest growing immigrant communities in the U.S. Unlike previous generations, they are marked by a high degree of training as medical doctors, engineers, scientists, and university professors. American Karma draws on participant observation and in-depth interviews to explore how these highly skilled professionals have been inserted into the racial dynamics of American society and transformed into “people of color.” Focusing on first-generation, middle-class Indians in American suburbia, it also sheds light on how these transnational immigrants themselves come to understand and negotiate their identities. Bhatia forcefully contends that to fully understand migrant identity and cultural formation it is essential that psychologists and others think of selfhood as firmly intertwined with sociocultural factors such as colonialism, gender, language, immigration, and race-based immigration laws. American Karma offers a new framework for thinking about the construction of selfhood and identity in the context of immigration. This innovative approach advances the field of psychology by incorporating critical issues related to the concept of culture, including race, power, and conflict, and will also provide key insights to those in anthropology, sociology, human development, and migrant studies. |
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