Psychoanalysis, Marxism, and History Of Psychology

Marxism, History of Psychiatry, History Of Psychology, and Anti-Psychiatry

The French utopian socialist Charles Fourier is a key figure in Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project. For Benjamin, one of the most significant aspects of Fourier’s utopian vision was its conceptualisation of work as a f... more abstractThe French utopian socialist Charles Fourier is a key figure in Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project. For Benjamin, one of the most significant aspects of Fourier’s utopian vision was its conceptualisation of work as a form of play. According to Fourier it would be possible to build a world around people’s inherent desires. In such a world work would be pleasurable and therefore free from exploitation. This paper explores and critiques Benjamin’s engagement with Fourier, arguing that he overlooked the persistence of domination in Fourier’s world. Here, however, Benjamin’s writings on the figure of the child suggest an alternative to Fourier’s ordered universe. Benjamin credited Fourier with ‘cracking open the natural teleology.’This article argues that although Fourier perpetuated a vision of natural progress and order that conformed with Enlightenment thinking, Benjamin’s writings on pedagogy imagine the child as capable of intervening in history and nature. Rather than imagining the child as a prototype adult, or play as a rehearsal for work, this paper will follow Benjamin in exploring the revolutionary potential of children’s unique perceptions, which pose a challenge to existing adult structures.

Walter Benjamin and Charles Fourier

Ideologies of Motherhood

Soviet History, Marxism, History of Sexuality, Feminism, and History Of Psychology

Psychoanalysis and Sigmund Freud

Gender Studies, Walter Benjamin, Fashion History, Siegfried Kracauer, and Working-Class History

(based on an MA essay completed before I began my PhD research into Luria)

Soviet History, Marxism, Continental Philosophy, and History Of Psychology

Publication Date: 2011

Publication Name: Dandelion

Soviet History and History of Science

Queer Theory

Publication Name: Studies in the Maternal Volume 6, Issue 1, 2014

Neuroscience

Publication Date: Jan 2013

Publication Name: Radical Philosophy

Medical Humanities

essay included in the collection Objects of Feminism edited by Maija Timonen and Josefine Wikström

French Revolution, Medical Humanities, Karl Marx, Ulrike Meinhof, and TJ Clark

Soviet History, History of Psychiatry, Medical Humanities, History of Neuroscience, and History Of Psychology

Aesthetics, History of Science, Thomas Mann, Medical Humanities, and Critical Neuroscience

Published in the collection TORQUE #2 THE ACT OF READING (Liverpool; Torque Editions, 2015)

Samuel R Delany, New York City, and Marshall Berman

A recorded version/reworking of a talk given at HM in November 2014. It starts with Benjamin's Moscow Diary and goes from there.

Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, Soviet History, Walter Benjamin, Children's Play, and 2 more

Soviet Union (History), Russian Cinema, Cinema of the Soviet Union, and Soviet and Post Soviet Cinema

Location: University of York

Event Date: Feb 13, 2015

Soviet History and History Of Psychology

Location: Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington DC

Event Date: Aug 19, 2014

Location: FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool

More Info: Torque Symposium

Event Date: Apr 30, 2014

Soviet History, Marxism, Queer Theory, and Feminism

Location: Vilnius, Lithuania

Soviet History

Location: Birkbeck College, University of London

Event Date: Feb 4, 2012

Trauma Studies, History of Psychiatry, and Iraq War

Location: Birkbeck College, University of London

More Info: WAR-Net

Event Date: Mar 9, 2012

History Of Psychology, Soviet Union (History), and Cold War history

Edited by Sam Dolbear and Hannah Proctor, and designed by Sophie Carapetian. Please see the document for more details.

History, Social Movements, Economics, Architecture, Photography, and 19 more