Darkest Timeline
Programmatic Notes for a Libidinal Genealogy of Capital
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3879216 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rodrigo Farías Rivas (0009-0003-4564-9903, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Das Questões (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2447-7087 • E-ISSN: 2447-7087 |
| Publisher | Biblioteca Central da UNB (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.26512/dasquestoes.v12i1.38573 |
| OpenAlex | W4400350264 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
In a striking passage near the end of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's Anti-Oedipus (from now on, AO), the 1972 work states that after an "engagement [...] full of hesitation", "the death instinct celebrates the wedding of psychoanalysis and capitalism" (1983, 335).Indeed, a main thrust of this first volume of Capitalism and Schizophrenia deals precisely with the problematic relation between psychoanalysis and capitalism, the latter serving to elucidate the obscure psychoanalytic doctrine.Yet this elucidation is a dangerous one, for taken to mean that the death drive is a product of capitalism, this idea may just turn out to be, as a Reich biographer said in relation to Freud and Jung's imputation of the notion to him, "idiotic" (Sharaf, 1983, 176).One might be allowed to doubt that this is what AO says about the death drive-or that it says it for idiotic reasons.The site of confrontation for AO's critique of the role of psychoanalysis within capitalism is a genealogy of their common discovery, which only makes the reference to the crucial role of the death drive all the more intriguing.For if this common discovery is a subjective, abstract, and universal essence defining desire and production-in the case of psychoanalysis, what Freud would have soon betrayed through the illegitimate metaphysics of the Oedipus complex-, then the psychoanalytic notion of Todestrieb becomes rather secondary, a consequence both of production and anti-production within capitalist societies, and of the dead-end with which repression ends up suffocating desire after oedipalizing it into its representational, expressive, and familial form.Furthermore, this latter set of themes-capitalist production and psychoanalytic subjectivation, not the key role of the death drive in officiating their wedding-helps compose AO's broader argument
Capitalism · Character (mathematics · Death drive · Deleuze and Guattari · Doctrine · Epistemology · Instinct · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Relation (database · Theology · Historical and Literary Studies · Law · Literary Analysis and Cultural Studies · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |