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The Currency of Desire: Libidinal Economy, Psychoanalysis and Sexual Revolution

The Currency of Desire: Libidinal Economy, Psychoanalysis and Sexual Revolution - Paperback

by David Bennett
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Availability:In StockContributor:David BennettPublish date:10/1/2016Pages:324
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Lawrence & WishartISBN-13:9781907103575ISBN-10:1907103570UPC:9781907103575Book Category:Philosophy, Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Movements, Anthropology, EssaysBook Topic:Critical Theory, Cultural & SocialSize:8.50 x 5.51 x 0.68 inchesWeight:0.377Product ID:SCNKR600J3

Metaphors of money have shaped theories of sexual psychology ever since Enlightenment doctors explained the mind-body as an 'animal economy' whose currency was desire, figured as a liquid form of energy that could be spent or saved, profitably invested or pleasurably squandered.

In this erudite and groundbreaking book, David Bennett explores the power of economic language to mould both scientific and popular thinking about desire from the eighteenth century to the present, on topics as disparate as onanism and advertising, psychoanalysis and shopping, Christianity and communism, prostitution and revolution.

The Currency of Desire combines intellectual history with modern critical theory to shed new light on the interactions between money and desire, homo oeconomicus and homo psychologicus.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Lawrence & WishartISBN-13:9781907103575ISBN-10:1907103570UPC:9781907103575Book Category:Philosophy, Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Movements, Anthropology, EssaysBook Topic:Critical Theory, Cultural & SocialSize:8.50 x 5.51 x 0.68 inchesWeight:0.377Product ID:SCNKR600J3
Bennett, David: - David Bennett is Principal Research Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne and Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex.
Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart

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