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Offering an in-depth interpretation of Sigmund Freud’s 'collective' or 'social' works, León Rozitchner insists that the Left should consider the ways in which capitalism inscribes its power in the subject as the site for the verification of history. Thus, after a brief commentary on Freud’s New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, the present book provides the reader with a chapter-by-chapter analysis of Civilisation and Its Discontents and Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. Freud’s views, according to Rozitchner’s original reading, offer a striking contribution to a materialist theory and history of subjectivity.
This book was first published in Spanish as Freud y los límites del individualismo burgués by Siglo XXI Editores, 1972.
This book was first published in Spanish as Freud y los límites del individualismo burgués by Siglo XXI Editores, 1972.
Price: $284.00
Pages: 516
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Historical Materialism Book Series
Publication Date:
25 November 2021
ISBN: 9789004471573
Format: Hardcover
“Rozitchner’s reading is explanatory and cathartic, both for the writer and the reader [...] Freud and the limits of Bourgeois is not an easy book to translate, yet Bruno Bosteels has done an excellent job, rendering Rozitchner’s unruly oceanic discourse into plain English, adding a valuable introduction that presents the author, his work, the political and intellectual contexts from which Rozitchner’s work arises, and an index absent in the original." — Michael Maidan, in: Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, 2022 [‘Freud and the Limits of Bourgeois Individualism’ by Léon Rozitchner reviewed by Michael Maidan – Marx & Philosophy Society
León Rozitchner (1924-2011) was a major philosopher and militant intellectual in Argentina. After studying at the Sorbonne in Paris with Maurice Merleau-Ponty (PhD, 1960), he returned home only to confront the terror of military coups and dictatorships, which for several years forced him into exile in Venezuela. After the so-called transition to democracy in 1983, he taught for many years at the University of Buenos Aires.
Bruno Bosteels, PhD (1995), is Professor of Latin American Cultures and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and the author of several books on Latin American politics and culture as well as on European philosophy and political theory. He is one of the main translators of Alain Badiou’s works in English.
Bruno Bosteels, PhD (1995), is Professor of Latin American Cultures and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and the author of several books on Latin American politics and culture as well as on European philosophy and political theory. He is one of the main translators of Alain Badiou’s works in English.