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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
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Dialogism: the Potential for Change and for Resistance to Change
1 The Sources of "Becoming" in Philosophical Idealism
2 "Becoming" as Socio-linguistic Event
3 Towards a Historical Account of the Unconscious?
4 From Literary Dialogism to Dialectical "Becoming"
5 "Speech Genres" and Creativity
6 Anticipation and Prevention: the Problem of Temporality
7 Conclusion
2 The Fissured Modern Subject: Paradox versus "Becoming" in Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground
1 Dialogical "Becoming" or Frozen Dialectic?
2 The Ethics of Capitalism
3 The Internal Catastrophe
4 The Prison House of Paradox
5 A Modern Liar's Paradox
6 An Unconscious within Hyperconsciousness?
7 Revolutionary Dreams or Literary Nostalgia?
8 Dialogism Violated
9 Literature and the Social Unconscious
3 Rethinking Ideology as a Field of Dialogical Conflict
1 Bakhtin's Developmental Model
2 The Authority Concealed in the Utterance
3 The Idea of a Single Ideology Is Itself Ideological
4 Ideological Conflict and the Production of the Unconscious
5 The Dialectics of Repression
6 Interpellation Revisited
7 The Relationship of Dialogism and Dialectics
4 A Contradictory Symbiosis is Born: the Rival Ideologies of the Market and the State under Capitalism
1 The Rival Myths of Nature in Bourgeois Ideology
2 The Capitalist Double-bind and the Displacement of Guilt
3 Social Contradiction Internalised
4 Loyalty versus Law: a Buried History
5 Market Addressivity: Capitalism without Guilt?
6 The Market's Need for Permanent Non-satisfaction
7 Conclusion
5 Captivating the Unruly Subject: Ideology in Early Modern Europe
1 Monetarisation and the Crisis of Identity
2 The Symbolic Divinisation of the State
3 Royal Charisma: a Concealed Contradiction in the Baroque Spectacle
4 The "Theatricality" of Power?
5 Capturing the Will to Believe
6 The Solar Theatricality of Absolutism in Shakespeare's Henriad
7 From Solar Absolutism to "Charismatic" Seduction
8 Carnival and Charisma: the Concealed Connection
9 Carnival and Dialectics
10 Anticipation, Prevention, and Unconscious Guilt
6 Repairing the Universe: Mysticism as Loss and Longing
1 The Reactionary Activist: a Serious Quijote?
2 Textual Authority: from Desire to Method
3 Transverberation: the Divine Word Reincarnated
4 Conclusion: from Mysticism to "Modernity"
7 Baroque Incompletion, the Captivated Subject, and the Humour of Don Quijote
1 Theatrical Addressivity
2 The Comic Counter-discourse
3 Capturing the Spectator's Desire
4 Baroque Incompletion
5 The Aesthetics of "Becoming" versus Timeless Form
6 A Comic Great Theatre of the World
7 The Captivated Reader
8 Competitive Desire
9 Charisma and Competitive Envy
10 The Captivated Quixotic Critic
8 The Dialectics of Laughter and Anxiety
1 Carnival Enters into History
2 Laughter and Religious Conflict
3 The "Risibility" of the Lower Other in Classical Aesthetics
4 Laughter and Unconscious Anxiety: the Emergent Modernity of Hobbes' Theory of Laughter
5 Modernising Hobbes' Dialectic
6 Playing with Breakdown: a Structural or a Dialogical Model of Laughter?
Conclusion
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index
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