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For Bakhtin dialogism is the basis of consciousness and its potential for change. But it can also be the scene of a struggle to prevent change. The unconscious is produced out of this repressive struggle to achieve or maintain hegemony.
Reaction Formations: Dialogism, Ideology, and Capitalist Culture: The Creation of the Modern Unconscious......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Introduction......Page 11
1 Dialogism: the Potential for Change and for Resistance to Change......Page 18
1 The Sources of "Becoming" in Philosophical Idealism......Page 20
2 "Becoming" as Socio-linguistic Event......Page 23
3 Towards a Historical Account of the Unconscious?......Page 26
4 From Literary Dialogism to Dialectical "Becoming"......Page 31
5 "Speech Genres" and Creativity......Page 34
6 Anticipation and Prevention: the Problem of Temporality......Page 37
7 Conclusion......Page 43
2 The Fissured Modern Subject: Paradox versus "Becoming" in Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground......Page 46
1 Dialogical "Becoming" or Frozen Dialectic?......Page 48
2 The Ethics of Capitalism......Page 55
3 The Internal Catastrophe......Page 58
4 The Prison House of Paradox......Page 62
5 A Modern Liar's Paradox......Page 64
6 An Unconscious within Hyperconsciousness?......Page 71
7 Revolutionary Dreams or Literary Nostalgia?......Page 76
8 Dialogism Violated......Page 79
9 Literature and the Social Unconscious......Page 89
1 Bakhtin's Developmental Model......Page 92
2 The Authority Concealed in the Utterance......Page 95
3 The Idea of a Single Ideology Is Itself Ideological......Page 100
4 Ideological Conflict and the Production of the Unconscious......Page 102
5 The Dialectics of Repression......Page 105
6 Interpellation Revisited......Page 108
7 The Relationship of Dialogism and Dialectics......Page 111
4 A Contradictory Symbiosis is Born: the Rival Ideologies of the Market and the State under Capitalism......Page 115
1 The Rival Myths of Nature in Bourgeois Ideology......Page 117
2 The Capitalist Double-bind and the Displacement of Guilt......Page 124
3 Social Contradiction Internalised......Page 126
4 Loyalty versus Law: a Buried History......Page 127
5 Market Addressivity: Capitalism without Guilt?......Page 129
6 The Market's Need for Permanent Non-satisfaction......Page 133
7 Conclusion......Page 136
5 Captivating the Unruly Subject: Ideology in Early Modern Europe......Page 137
1 Monetarisation and the Crisis of Identity......Page 140
2 The Symbolic Divinisation of the State......Page 148
3 Royal Charisma: a Concealed Contradiction in the Baroque Spectacle......Page 151
4 The "Theatricality" of Power?......Page 154
5 Capturing the Will to Believe......Page 158
6 The Solar Theatricality of Absolutism in Shakespeare's Henriad......Page 161
7 From Solar Absolutism to "Charismatic" Seduction......Page 165
8 Carnival and Charisma: the Concealed Connection......Page 168
9 Carnival and Dialectics......Page 171
10 Anticipation, Prevention, and Unconscious Guilt......Page 174
6 Repairing the Universe: Mysticism as Loss and Longing......Page 177
1 The Reactionary Activist: a Serious Quijote?......Page 182
2 Textual Authority: from Desire to Method......Page 189
3 Transverberation: the Divine Word Reincarnated......Page 195
4 Conclusion: from Mysticism to "Modernity"......Page 207
7 Baroque Incompletion, the Captivated Subject, and the Humour of Don Quijote......Page 209
1 Theatrical Addressivity......Page 213
2 The Comic Counter-discourse......Page 214
3 Capturing the Spectator's Desire......Page 217
4 Baroque Incompletion......Page 220
5 The Aesthetics of "Becoming" versus Timeless Form......Page 222
6 A Comic Great Theatre of the World......Page 225
7 The Captivated Reader......Page 229
8 Competitive Desire......Page 235
9 Charisma and Competitive Envy......Page 239
10 The Captivated Quixotic Critic......Page 245
8 The Dialectics of Laughter and Anxiety......Page 249
1 Carnival Enters into History......Page 253
2 Laughter and Religious Conflict......Page 258
3 The "Risibility" of the Lower Other in Classical Aesthetics......Page 260
4 Laughter and Unconscious Anxiety: the Emergent Modernity of Hobbes' Theory of Laughter......Page 263
5 Modernising Hobbes' Dialectic......Page 269
6 Playing with Breakdown: a Structural or a Dialogical Model of Laughter?......Page 271
Conclusion......Page 281
Bibliography......Page 285
Name Index......Page 292
Subject Index......Page 295
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