Benjamin Y Fong
Biographic Data
| ID | 360238 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Y Fong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin Y |
| FAMILY NAME | Fong |
| SIGNATURE | FONG B Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7260-7149 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Organizing Logistics Chokepoints
The Material and the Participatory in the Green New Deal
A Whole Climate of Critique
Monsters of the Brain, Images of the Deity
The Psychic Makeup of the New Anthropological Type
This essay attempts to formulate a more convincing understanding of the new anthropological type than one finds in The Authoritarian Personality, one rooted in Adorno’s work but never articulated by Adorno himself. It begins by challenging Adorno’s use of the term ego weakness, for the primary reason that so much of his writing is devoted to describing an incipient rigidity and instrumentality in thinking that is most aptly characterized as a for…
Experiments in talking
Hans Loewald and the death drive
In this paper I explore the connections between late Freudian metapsychology and the developmental theory of Hans Loewald. I argue that Loewald’s conception of childhood development is best understood as an ontogenic recapitulation of the phylogenic narrative offered in Freud’s “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” (Freud, 1920/1966). By relinking these 2 theoretical domains, it is possible to better articulate both Loewald’s debt to Freud and also the…
Death drive sublimation
The Psychic Makeup of the New Anthropological Type
This essay attempts to formulate a more convincing understanding of the new anthropological type than one finds in The Authoritarian Personality, one rooted in Adorno’s work but never articulated by Adorno himself. It begins by challenging Adorno’s use of the term ego weakness, for the primary reason that so much of his writing is devoted to describing an incipient rigidity and instrumentality in thinking that is most aptly characterized as a for…
Death drive sublimation
Death drive sublimation
Hans Loewald and the death drive
In this paper I explore the connections between late Freudian metapsychology and the developmental theory of Hans Loewald. I argue that Loewald’s conception of childhood development is best understood as an ontogenic recapitulation of the phylogenic narrative offered in Freud’s “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” (Freud, 1920/1966). By relinking these 2 theoretical domains, it is possible to better articulate both Loewald’s debt to Freud and also the…
Experiments in talking
A Whole Climate of Critique
Monsters of the Brain, Images of the Deity
The Psychic Makeup of the New Anthropological Type
This essay attempts to formulate a more convincing understanding of the new anthropological type than one finds in The Authoritarian Personality, one rooted in Adorno’s work but never articulated by Adorno himself. It begins by challenging Adorno’s use of the term ego weakness, for the primary reason that so much of his writing is devoted to describing an incipient rigidity and instrumentality in thinking that is most aptly characterized as a for…
The Material and the Participatory in the Green New Deal
Organizing Logistics Chokepoints
Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Psychoanalysis (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (3 works) · Death drive (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Id, ego and super-ego (2 works)