The lost spirit of capitalism

Introduction I. Sociopathology of 1968 1. The paradox of the super-ego in the transformations of capitalism 2. The question of spirit is that of the we 3. Knowledge and the super-ego: towards a new spirit of capitalism 4. Technicity, hostility to civilization, and the intermittency of noetic action 5. The crisis of capitalism as ideological disarray and as crisis of spirit after May 1968 6. Artistic critique and social critique , or the jargon of authenticity 7. The recuperation of the ideas of 68 by French capitalism and the establishment of control society 8. Digression on the meteorological predictions of the Alaskan Eskimo 9. False problems concerning action 10. Authenticity and singularity: fantasy and the forgetting of what does not exist 11. Supports and relations of production II. The automatization of the super-ego and the passage of desire as original diversion of libidinal energy 12. The historicity of psychoanalytic categories and the illusion of desire as a natural state 13. From psychopathology to sociopathology 14. Contradictions between Marcuse s Marxism and his Freudianism in relation to struggle (eris) against the risk of decomposition. Moving beyond guilt 15. Technics, super-ego and desublimation 16. Processes of adoption and diversions of libido: Marcuse and the tendency of libidinal energy to fall 17. Liberation of instincts , technesis and the passage of desire D the thrust of the knife 18. The murder of the father, the opening of time and guilt, and the instant of my death henceforth always pending 19. Diversions and decompositions 20. The automatization of the super-ego 21. The opposition of Narcissus and Prometheus 22. Ontology and the reality principle 23. Libidinal ecology Conclusion 24. Intoxications, prohibitions, cares 25. The struggle for the life of the spirit 26. Consistence of the health and authority of public power: the freedom of the spirit

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