Autonomy and Psychic Socialization
From Non-Alienated Labour to Non Surplus Repressive Sublimation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12643153 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher M Holman (0000-0001-5542-807X, Department of Philosophy Stony Brook University, NY, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 136-162 |
| Publication date | 2011-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Horizons (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1440-9917 • E-ISSN: 1568-5160 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/crit.v12i2.136 |
| OpenAlex | W2050723855 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
The work of Herbert Marcuse, unlike that of certain of his col leagues at the Institut für Sozialforschung, is most often maligned as being excessively positive and identitarian. His work on Freud, for example, is criticized for being grounded in a crude biological determinism which points towards an ultimate reconciliation of both psychic and social conflict. This essay will attempt to counter such readings by critically juxtaposing Marcuse's concept of non-repressive sublimation with Cornelius Castoriadis's understanding of psychic socialization. It will be suggested that the affinities between Marcuse and Castoriadis's appropriations of Freudian metapsychology reveals the degree to which the former can be read as a radical democratic thinker affirming the values of autonomy and creativity. This reading demonstrates that Marcuse has much to contribute to contemporary debates on the role of the aesthetic and the sensuous in democratic theory
Aesthetics · Appropriation · Autonomy · Creativity · Democracy · Epistemology · Instinct · Political science · Politics · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Sublimation (psychology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Psychology · Social Psychology
Grundrisse
Soviet Marxism
Psychoanalysis and politics
Castoriadis
The Imaginary Institution of Society
Eros and Civilization
On the Philosophical Foundation of the Concept of Labor in Economics
Marxism and feminism
Norm and Critique in Castoriadis's Theory of Autonomy
The Social Imaginary
Philosophy and Sublimation
Castoriadis
From the Imaginary to Subjectivation
The State Of The Subject Today
Rescuing the Revolution with an Ontology
The Imaginary Witness
Re-Imagining Castoriadis's Psychic Monad
The Imaginary Witness
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |