Lacan, jouissance and the social sciences the one and the many / Raul Moncayo.

Author/creator Moncayo, Raul
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAbingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
Descriptionpages cm.
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SeriesRoutledge focus on mental health
Contents The primal horde of primates and early humans -- The leader and the group -- Benevolent tyranny and love as a motive for repression -- The group -- The polis -- Practice and labor as undivided activity, alienated labor, and the question of surplus value -- The one and the many -- Equality, inequality, meritocracy, excellence, talent, defect and disability -- Animal and human spirits or jouissance in the economy.
Abstract "Exploring how a Freudian-Lacanian approach to psychoanalysis intersects with social and cultural theory, Lacan, Jouissance and the Social Sciences demonstrates the significance of subjectivity as a concept for the study of leadership, social psychology, culture, and political theory. Raul Moncayo examines Lacan's notion of surplus jouissance in relation to four types of socio-economic value: Productive Value, Exchange Value, Surplus Value and Profit. Also drawing on the work of Slavoj Žižek, Moncayo contends that surplus production cannot be reduced to alienated labor, but rather includes various levels of jouissance-value. In this way, the jouissance that drives capitalization and organization can be theorized as constructive rather than destructive, and encompass satisfaction and prosperity rather than individual suffering. This volume will be of great interest to psychoanalysts both in practice and in training, and to academics and scholars of psychoanalytic studies, Lacanian studies, and the social sciences"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2023017558
ISBN9781032515977 (hardback)
ISBN9781032515946 (paperback)
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