Reaction Formations: Dialogism, Ideology, and Capitalist Culture : : a The Creation of the Modern Unconscious / / Jonathan Hall.

Bakhtin and Voloshinov argued that dialogue is the intersubjective basis of consciousness, and of the creativity which makes historical changes in consciousness possible. The multiple dialogical relationships give every subject, who has developed through internalising them, the potential to distance...

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Superior document:Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 144
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2020.
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 144.
Physical Description:1 online resource (295 pages).
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Summary:Bakhtin and Voloshinov argued that dialogue is the intersubjective basis of consciousness, and of the creativity which makes historical changes in consciousness possible. The multiple dialogical relationships give every subject, who has developed through internalising them, the potential to distance him or herself from them. Consciousness is therefore an “unfinalised” process, always open to a possible future which would not merely reiterate the past. But this book explores its corollary: The relative openness is a field of conflict where rival discourses struggle for hegemony, by subordinating or eliminating their rivals. That is how the unconscious is created out of socio-historical conflicts. Hegemony is always incomplete, because there is always the possibility of a return of its repressed rivals in new combinations.
ISBN:9789004411654
9789004411647
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Jonathan Hall.