Excerpt: /210/ Reading Club: Psychoanalysis & Spirit of Capitalism
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Excerpt: /210/ Reading Club: Psychoanalysis & Spirit of Capitalism

2021-08-21
We discuss Eli Zaretsky's essay, "Psychoanalysis and the Spirit of Capitalism" (also available as a chapter in his book Political Freud).   How convincing is Zaretsky’s idea that, as capitalism was becoming more organized and systematic, it also liberated relations between the sexes and enhanced a sense of individual subjectivity?   Was Freudianism a victim of its success? Did it ‘win’ and thereby make itself obsolete - socially if not intellectually? And what is today’s "spirit o...
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