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Confronting desire : psychoanalysis and international development / Ilan Kapoor.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 307 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501751738
  • 9781501751745
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BF175 .C664 2020
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Contents:
Post-development's surrender to global capitalism: a psychoanalytic critique -- The universalist dimensions of antagonism -- What "drives" capitalist development? -- Capitalism as envy-machine -- Fetishism in international development: domination, disavowal, and foreclosure -- The "gaze" in international development: panoptic or traumatic? -- When sex = (socially constructed) gender, what is lost, politically? -- Psychoanalytic reflections on gender and development -- The politics of perversion and hysteria in the Tunisian revolution and its aftermath -- The queer Third World -- The racist enjoyments and fantasies of international development -- Development and the poor: enjoy your symptom!
Subject: "This book critically analyzes important current issues in international development-growth, poverty, inequality, participation, consumption, corruption, gender, race, LGBT politics, revolution, universalism-by deploying key psychoanalytic concepts-enjoyment, fantasy, antagonism, fetishism, envy, drive, perversion, hysteria. It draws on the work of Lacan and Žižek, and on psychoanalytic postcolonial and feminist scholarship"--
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Psychoanalysis and international development -- Post-development's surrender to global capitalism: a psychoanalytic critique -- The universalist dimensions of antagonism -- What "drives" capitalist development? -- Capitalism as envy-machine -- Fetishism in international development: domination, disavowal, and foreclosure -- The "gaze" in international development: panoptic or traumatic? -- When sex = (socially constructed) gender, what is lost, politically? -- Psychoanalytic reflections on gender and development -- The politics of perversion and hysteria in the Tunisian revolution and its aftermath -- The queer Third World -- The racist enjoyments and fantasies of international development -- Development and the poor: enjoy your symptom!

"This book critically analyzes important current issues in international development-growth, poverty, inequality, participation, consumption, corruption, gender, race, LGBT politics, revolution, universalism-by deploying key psychoanalytic concepts-enjoyment, fantasy, antagonism, fetishism, envy, drive, perversion, hysteria. It draws on the work of Lacan and Žižek, and on psychoanalytic postcolonial and feminist scholarship"--

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