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People from all backgrounds enjoy what capitalism provides, but at the same time are told more and better is yet to come. Eloquent and enlivened by examples from film, television, consumer culture, and everyday life, Capitalism and Desire brings a new, psychoanalytically grounded approach to political and social theory.
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It is romance.Richard Boothby, author of Sex on the Couch: What Freud Still Has To Teach Us About Sex and Gender
McGowan's book is a reader-friendly and therapeutic dissection of capitalism's success. Although this fantasy underlies every purchase of a commodity, with most commodities we see easily through the illusion.Romance enables us to touch love’s disruptiveness while avoiding its full traumatic ramifications.”
― Todd McGowan, Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets
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“The social authority undergoes a radical diminution in its capacity to grant recognition when someone is in love.
Every act of consumption has its basis in an attempt to access the lost object, to find the perfect commodity that would provide an ultimate and lasting satisfaction. Romance, as Rougement sees it, allows us to continue to desire and to avoid the act of love. Eloquent and enlivened by examples from film, television, consumer culture, and everyday life, Capitalism and Desire brings a new, psychoanalytically grounded approach to political and social theory.
Capitalism and Desire turns around the predominant leftist whining about the devastating psychic consequences of global capitalism, about how it undermines elementary structures of psychic stability which enable individuals to lead a meaningful life.Joan Copjec, author of Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists
The immense satisfaction of McGowan's latest and most ambitious book is achieved, appropriately enough, by putting capitalism to the test of a suitably profound (and paradoxical) conception of satisfaction. According to Joan Copjec, “when one loves something, one loves something in it that is more than itself, its nonidentity to itself.” 5 We seek love to escape the constraints of our symbolic identity and to enjoy our nonidentity.The subject seeking romance sees in the other the possibility of the realization of its desire and thereby reduces the love object to an object of desire. Love’s disruption of our everyday life is much more palpable than that of politics, art, or science. Many theorists of love, like Jacques Lacan and Alain Badiou, have remarked on love’s inherent disruptiveness.
Love transcends any calculus and forces the subject to abandon its identity entirely, not simply stake its reputation or its fortune.”
― Todd McGowan, Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets
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“subjects to continue to go on.
Capitalist society’s packaging of love as romance aims at eliminating the disruptiveness of love while sustaining its passion.
With a Twinkie, the fantasy becomes more tenable. From this perspective, our economic, social, and political worlds open up to real political change. The lover embraces the most unflattering characteristics of the beloved and treats them as sublime indexes of the beloved’s worth. This experience of a complete loss of one’s usual coordinates is at once the appeal and the trauma of love.
The passion that love arouses impels subjects to continue to go on.”
― Todd McGowan, Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets
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“When we talk about finding or having found our soul mate (if we do), we do not believe ourselves to be immersed in the capitalist economy.
The difference between romance and love is that the former never leaves the terrain of desire.
Scottish Left Review
Although there has been, in some circles, a dismissal of Lacan and psychoanalysis more generally, McGowan’s impressive application of the seemingly intractable Lacanian subject to the conditions of late capitalism enables those who might otherwise be disinterested in psychoanalysis to see its unique and important contribution.Relying on Lacan's radical re-excavation of Freud, McGowan offers brand-new ideas about the subject's ensnarement in the "freedoms" of capitalism and the possibilities of resistance to them. The lover experiences of the trauma of love with each unrequited phone call. The Psychic Constitution of Private Space
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