The Political Unconscious. Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3135988 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dominick Lacapra |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 83 |
| Publication date | 1982-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act, Fredric Jameson, 2015 |
| Venue | History and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2656 • E-ISSN: 1468-2303 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2505151 |
| OpenAlex | W4292910273 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
be obvious that no work in the area of narrative analysis can afford to ignore the fundamental contributions of Northrop Frye, the codifica tion by A. J. Greimas of the whole Formalist and semiotic traditions, the heritage of a certain Christian hermeneutics, and above all, the indispensable explorations by Freud of the logic of dreams, and by Claude Levi-Strauss of the logic of "primitive" storytelling and pensee sauvage, not to speak of the flawed yet monumental achievements in this area of the greatest Marxist philosopher of modern times, Georg Lukacs.These divergent and unequal bodies of work are here interro gated and evaluated from the perspective of the specific critical and interpretive task of the present volume, namely to restructure the prob lematics of ideology, of the unconscious and of desire, of representa tion, of history, and of cultural production, around the all-informing process of narrative, which I take to be (here using the shorthand of philosophical idealism) the central function or instance of the human
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Linguistics · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · The Symbolic · Unconscious mind · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
Playing War
Music and Politics
Preposterous Poetics
Contemporary Latin American Cinema
Opera in Postwar Venice
The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom
Metanationalizing Theory in Comparative Studies
Performing Transformation in the Community University of the Rivers (Part 2)
With What Voice Does China Speak? Sinology, Orientalism and the Debate on Sinologism
Poética histórica entre Rússia e Ocidente
The Early Socio-ecological Dimensions of Tricontinental (1967-1971)
Individual Mobility and the Sense of “Deadlock”
Manipulate to empower
Striving for experiential resonance
He uses my body
Geopolitics as Architecture
Labour, Enclosure, and Form in World Literature
Saadat Hasan Manto and the erotic surface
Narratives of life experience in the digital space
How many genres in narrative
Reading Against the Text ‐ Developing Critical Literacy
Postmodernism and the Rest of the World
Empires of mind
Tentative Utopias
Lost at sea
A Decadence Baedeker
Note on the Linguistic Labyrinth of the War on Terrorism
Visuality, Performativity, and “Extraordinary Bodies”
New urban social movements in Cape Town and Johannesburg
Psychoanalytic political ecology
Expanding conceptions of liberation
Som en skapelseakt
Tilsynekomstens politik. Om virkelighedsmodellering i Joseph Conrads Nostromo
Reflecting on Post-Fascism
Ideology-Critique with the Conceptual Hinterland of a Theory of the Ideological
Reading 'Opium of the People
Blockbuster Marxism
The Romanticization of Cape Horn in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando
Turkish Dogs
Poetics, Form, and Marxism's Concern with Style
"Forming History, Inhabiting Form in Marvell's "Upon Appleton House
The Artifactuality of Narrative Form
Introduction
The Persistence of Philology
Marxism and anarchism in an age of neoliberal crisis
Is ideology critique worthwhile? A defense of writing for an absent audience in a cynical, warming world
Inner-City Children, Country Summers
Narrating the End
Checking in the Mirror
Painting in the expanded field
Against “Collective Caruso”
Ego-Alter Ego
On globalization, borders, and borderlands
Unthinking Mastery Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements
Indigenous Efflorescence
Cli-Fi Cinema
Dependent, Distracted, Bored
Call Me Morbid
The Cambridge History of the American Novel
Spiritual Shakespeares
The Cambridge history of French literature
History and Literature
Narrative and Nature Interest
Picasso, Africa, and the Schemata of Difference
Imperial Genus
Narrative in Social Work
Me, St. George, and Other Foreigners
A Brief History of Mediated, Sensational and Virtual Geographies
Resignification as Fourth Narrative
Infectious Liberty
The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British and Anglophone Novel
Hobohemia and the Crucifixion Machine
Ireland, Revolution, and the English Modernist Imagination
Foucault's Technologies
The eighteenth-century conte
American National Identity and the Structure of Myth
Recovering the Later Georg Lukács
French poetry, 1793–1863
Eighteenth-century margins
(Post)colonial Books as Commodity and Anti-Commodity
Allegories of the Anthropocene
Men in Color
“As Thoroughly Black as the Most Faithful Philanthropist Could Desire”
The Native American Tradition
The Poetics and Politics of Bardicide
Fists of Fury
Objectivism, Relativism and the Importance of Rhetoric for Marxist Economics
For Transformative Knowledge and Postnationalist Public Spheres
Creative Networks and the City
Reading Dialectically
Cooper and the idea of the Indian
Proprieties of Coalition
La lechuza de Minerva
Sociology of Culture and Cultural Studies
Lica i naličja hrvatske ideologije
Transformacija političkog pojma tranzicije u povijesnom lomu 1989./1991. u Hrvatskoj
Contemporary Persian Poetry as History
Not Only Rivers and Mountains
Materialismo figural
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |