Cover illustration: “A view of Montserrat” by Jessica Hall, oil on board. With kind permission by the artist.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hall, Jonathan, 1942- author.
Title: Reaction formations : dialogism, ideology, and capitalist culture : the creation of the modern unconscious / by Jonathan Hall.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] | Series: Studies in critical social sciences, 1573–4234 ; volume 144 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | 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”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: lccn 2019026752 (print) | lccn 2019026753 (ebook) | isbn 9789004411647 (hardback) | isbn 9789004411654 (ebook)
Subjects: lcsh: Consciousness. | Intersubjectivity. | Hegemony.
Classification: lcc bf311 .h293 2019 (print) | lcc bf311 (ebook) | ddc 153--dc23
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