Intoxication, Modernity, and Colonialism

Freud’s Industrial Unconscious, Benjamin’s Hashish Mimesis

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology, Marriage & Family, Health & Well Being, Psychology, History
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Author: Dušan I. Bjelić ISBN: 9781137588562
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US Publication: January 25, 2017
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Language: English
Author: Dušan I. Bjelić
ISBN: 9781137588562
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication: January 25, 2017
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English

This book depicts how Freud’s cocaine and Benjamin’s hashish illustrate two critiques of modernity and two messianic emancipations through the pleasures of intoxicating discourse. Freud discovered the “libido” and “unconscious” in the industrial mimetic scheme of cocaine, whereas Benjamin found an inspiration for his critique of phantasmagoria and its variant psychoanalysis in hashish’s mimesis. In addition, as part of the history of colonialism, both drugs generated two distinct colonial discourses and, consequently, two different understandings of the emancipatory powers of pleasure, the unconscious, and dreams. After all, great ideas don't liberate; they intoxicate.

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This book depicts how Freud’s cocaine and Benjamin’s hashish illustrate two critiques of modernity and two messianic emancipations through the pleasures of intoxicating discourse. Freud discovered the “libido” and “unconscious” in the industrial mimetic scheme of cocaine, whereas Benjamin found an inspiration for his critique of phantasmagoria and its variant psychoanalysis in hashish’s mimesis. In addition, as part of the history of colonialism, both drugs generated two distinct colonial discourses and, consequently, two different understandings of the emancipatory powers of pleasure, the unconscious, and dreams. After all, great ideas don't liberate; they intoxicate.

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