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This book outlines a new model for global social justice movements that is based on Freud and Lacan’s central insights regarding the unconscious, repetition, drives, and transference. Since most of our current social issues are global in nature, Bob Samuels convincingly argues that we need a global solution, but that global solidarity is blocked by narcissistic nationalism and the capitalist death drive. In examining contemporary social movements for global justice, Samuels articulates a comprehensive theory of non-pathological social solidarity, and argues that in the age of multinational corporations and global climate change, we need a new model of global justice and government that requires an understanding of analytic neutrality and free association. This book uses psychoanalytic theories and practices to explain how someone like Trump can rise to power, and explores why liberals have failed to provide a convincing or effective political alternative. It will be compelling reading to students and teachers in a range of psychological and political disciplines, and to anyone interested in psychoanalysis and current politics. Robert Samuels teaches writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He is also President of UC-AFT, the union representing 4,000 librarians and lecturers (non-tenured faculty) in the UC system, and has authored seven books, including Why Public Higher Education Should Be Free. .

Psychology. --- Political theory. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Social justice. --- Human rights. --- Critical psychology. --- Critical Psychology. --- Political Theory. --- Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights. --- Political psychology --- Populism --- Presidents --- Election --- Trump, Donald, --- Presidency --- Mass political behavior --- Political behavior --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Psychology, Political --- Psychological aspects --- Trump, Donald J., --- Tramp, Donalʹd, --- Трамп, Дональд, --- 川普唐納德, --- The Donald, --- Donald, --- Trump, Donald John, --- Heads of state --- Executive power --- Psychology --- Social psychology --- Equality --- Justice --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Psychology, Pathological --- Psychology, Critical --- Communism and psychology --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Human rights --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Law and legislation

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This book argues that neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and behavioral economics often function as a political ideology masquerading as a new science. In looking at works by Antonio Damasio, Steven Pinker, Richard Thaler, Cas Sunstein, and John Tooby, Robert Samuels undertakes a close reading of the new brain sciences, and by turning to the works of Freud and Lacan, offers a counter-discourse to these new emerging sciences.  He argues that an unintentional political manipulation of scientific thinking serves to repress the psychoanalytic conception of the unconscious and sexuality as it reinforces neoliberalism and promotes the drugging of discontent.  This innovative book is intended for those interested in science, psychoanalysis, and politics and offers a new definition of neoliberal subjectivity.

Psychoanalysis. --- Neurosciences. --- Evolutionary psychology. --- Psychology. --- Political theory. --- Critical psychology. --- Critical Psychology. --- Economic Psychology. --- Cultural Policy and Politics. --- Political Theory. --- Psychology --- Psychology, Pathological --- Human evolution --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system --- Economics—Psychological aspects. --- Cultural policy. --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Intellectual life --- State encouragement of science, literature, and art --- Culture --- Popular culture --- Psychology, Critical --- Communism and psychology --- Government policy

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This book builds on a critique of Slavoj Zizek’s work to outline a new theory of psychoanalytic rhetoric. It turns to Zizek because not only is he one of the most popular intellectuals in the world, but, this book argues, his discourse is shaped by a set of unconscious rhetorical processes that also determine much of contemporary politics, culture, and subjectivity. Just as Aristotle argued that the three main forms of persuasion are logos (reason), pathos (emotion), and ethos (authority), Samuels describes each one of these aspects of communication as related to a fundamental psychoanalytic concept. He also turns to Aristotle’s work on theater to introduce a fourth form of rhetoric, catharsis, which is the purging of feelings of fear and pity. Adding a strong voice to current psychoanalytic debate, this book will be of value to all scholars and students interested in both the history and modern developments of psychoanalytic theory. Robert Samuels has doctorates in Psychoanalysis and English. He teaches advanced writing and rhetoric at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He is the author of fifteen books, including Freud for the Twenty-First Century.

Žižek, Slavoj. --- Žižek, Slavoj --- Critical psychology. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Culture—Study and teaching. --- Critical Psychology. --- Cultural Theory. --- Psychology --- Psychology, Pathological --- Psychology, Critical --- Communism and psychology --- Culture --- Study and teaching. --- Cultural studies --- Psicologia analítica --- Retòrica --- Zizek, Slavoj --- Preceptiva literària --- Anàlisi del discurs literari --- Començament (Retòrica) --- Conferències --- Debats --- Descripció (Retòrica) --- Dicció --- Elocució --- Ironia --- Oratòria --- Repetició (Retòrica) --- Retòrica antiga --- Retòrica medieval --- Puntuació --- Anàlisi jungià --- Psicoanàlisi jungià --- Psicologia complexa --- Psicologia de les profunditats --- Psicologia jungiana --- Teoria jungiana --- Psicoanàlisi

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This book combines three elements: an articulation of Lacan's theory of ethics; a discussion of recent theories of feminine subjectivity and queer textuality; and close readings of Hitchcock's films. Hitchcock's Bi-Textuality argues that just as Freud posited a fundamental ground of bisexuality for every subject, we can affirm a form of universal bi-textuality that is repressed through different modes of representation, yet returns in unconscious aspects of textuality (dreams, word play, jokes, and symbolism). In order to illustrate this notion of bi-textuality, this work discusses how Hitchcock's films are extremely heterogeneous and present multiple forms of sexual identification and desire, although they have most often been read through the reductive lens of male heterosexuality.Throughout this book, the work of Julia Kristeva, Kaja Silverman, Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray, and Slavoj Zizek is examined. One of the central concerns is the way that different psychoanalytic and feminist theories tend to equate the Real and the unconscious with the feminine. This feminization of the Real tends to block the awareness of the bisexual nature of the unconscious. In order to return to Freud's fundamental theory of polyvalent sexuality, recent notions of queer sexuality and textuality are explored. This book extends psychoanalytic theory by incorporating new feminist and queer conceptions of sexuality and representation.

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 --- Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981 --- Performing Arts --- Psychology --- Hitchcock, alfred, 1899-1980 --- Lacan, jacques, 1901-1981 --- Performing arts

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"This timely intervention into composition studies presents a case for the need to teach all students a shared system of communication and logic based on the modern globalizing ideals of universality, neutrality, and empiricism. Based on a series of close readings of contemporary writing by Stanley Fish, Asao Inoue, Doug Downs and Elizabeth Wardle, Richard Rorty, Slavoj Zizek, and Steven Pinker, this book critiques recent arguments that traditional approaches to teaching writing, grammar, and argumentation foster marginalization, oppression, and the restriction of student agency. Instead, it argues that the best way to help and protect a diverse global student body is to promote a mode of academic discourse dedicated to the impartial judgment of empirical facts communicated in an open and clear manner. It provides a critical analysis of core topics in composition studies, including the teaching of grammar; notions of objectivity and neutrality; empiricism and pragmatism; identity politics; and postmodernism. Aimed at graduate students and junior instructors in rhetoric and composition, as well as more seasoned scholars and program administrators, this polemical book provides an accessible staging of key debates that all writing instructors must grapple with"--

Rhetoric --- Academic writing --- Learned writing --- Scholarly writing --- Authorship --- Language and languages --- Speaking --- Expression --- Literary style --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Social aspects