{"id":384,"date":"2017-01-17T17:10:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T17:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/?p=384"},"modified":"2017-01-17T17:10:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T17:10:53","slug":"new-book-death-and-mastery-psychoanalytic-drive-theory-and-the-subject-of-late-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"New book: Death and Mastery: Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.adornostudies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/9780231176682.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-385\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.adornostudies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/9780231176682.jpg?resize=350%2C525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.adornostudies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/9780231176682.jpg?w=350&amp;ssl=1 350w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.adornostudies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/9780231176682.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/societyoffellows.uchicago.edu\/directory\/benjamin-fong\">Benjamin Fong<\/a> has written to us letting us know about the publication of his book,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/cup.columbia.edu\/book\/death-and-mastery\/9780231176682\">Death and Mastery: Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Capitalism<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Columbia University Press, 2016). The book should be of interest to many of our readers as Fong notes that, &#8220;the fourth and most important chapter of the book is devoted to Horkheimer and Adorno, and specifically to making sense of the damaged psychic structure of what they call the &#8216;new anthropological type.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here is the publisher&#8217;s blurb:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first philosophers of the Frankfurt School famously turned to the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud to supplement their Marxist analyses of ideological subjectification. Since the collapse of their proposed &#8220;marriage of Marx and Freud,&#8221; psychology and social theory have grown apart to the impoverishment of both. Returning to this union, Benjamin Y. Fong reconstructs the psychoanalytic &#8220;foundation stone&#8221; of critical theory in an effort to once again think together the possibility of psychic and social transformation.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on the work of Hans Loewald and Jacques Lacan, Fong complicates the famous antagonism between Eros and the death drive in reference to a third term: the woefully undertheorized drive to mastery. Rejuvenating Freudian metapsychology through the lens of this pivotal concept, he then provides fresh perspective on Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse&#8217;s critiques of psychic life under the influence of modern cultural and technological change. The result is a novel vision of critical theory that rearticulates the nature of subjection in late capitalism and renews an old project of resistance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Fong has written to us letting us know about the publication of his book,\u00a0Death and Mastery: Psychoanalytic Drive Theory &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/?p=384\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[65,43],"tags":[113,114],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frankfurt-school","category-publications","tag-benjamin-fong","tag-the-frankfurt-school"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adornostudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}