{"product_id":"political-freud-a-history-9780231172448","title":"Political Freud: A History","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this masterful history  Eli Zaretsky reveals the power of Freudian thought to illuminate the great political conflicts of the twentieth century. Developing an original concept of \"political Freudianism \" he shows how twentieth-century radicals  activists  and intellectuals used psychoanalytic ideas to probe consumer capitalism  racial violence  anti-Semitism  and patriarchy. He also underscores the continuing influence and critical potential of those ideas in the transformed landscape of the present. Zaretskys conception of political Freudianism unites the two overarching themes of the last centurytotalitarianism and consumerismin a single framework. He finds that theories of mass psychology and the unconscious were central to the study of fascism and the Holocaust; to African American radical thought  particularly the struggle to overcome the legacy of slavery; to the rebellions of the 1960s; and to the feminism and gay liberation movements of the 1970s. Nor did the influence of political Freud end when the era of Freud bashing began. Rather  Zaretsky proves that political Freudianism is alive today in cultural studies  the study of memory  theories of trauma  postcolonial thought  film  media and computer studies  evolutionary theory and even economics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652293976117,"sku":"ByrdShop_0231172443","price":59.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780231172448.jpg?v=1781850636","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/political-freud-a-history-9780231172448","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}