Index

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Abridgment, 122

Adler, Alfred, 25

Administration (Verwaltung), 87, 94–108, 120, 132–33

Adorno, Theodor, 3–4, 19–20, 53, 81–108, 133, 144n74; crisis of internalization and, 86–90; culture industry and, 83–86, 94–101; Dialectic of Enlightenment and, 83–86; mimesis and, 91–94; negativity and, 186n120; superego and, 101–5, 183–84n95

Afterwardsness (Nachträglichkeit), 37, 42, 56, 65–66, 161n43

Aggression, 59–60; aggressivity compared to, 167n5; Winnicott and, 174n91

“Aggressiveness in Advanced Industrial Societies” (Marcuse), 111, 113

Aggressive sublimation, 20, 109–18, 121–25, 129, 133; examples of, 114

Aggressivity, 19, 59–78, 128; aggression compared to, 167n5; alienation and, 171n55; Benjamin and, 70–72; Boothby and, 169n19; death drive and, 59–60, 65–67, 69; ego formation and, 61–67; Freud, S. and, 113–14; Girard and, 72–75; language and, 121–23, 128; mastery and, 33–34, 66–67, 69, 78; overcoming, 75–77, 171n54; technology and, 109–18, 121–25. See also Aggressive sublimation

Ainsworth, Mary, 164n81

Alexander, Franz, 149n29

Alienation, 2–3, 46–47, 132–33; aggressivity and, 171n55; mirror stage and, 61–65

Anality, 25, 82, 130, 174n1

Analytic philosophy, 196–97n70

Arendt, Hannah, 59

Attachment, 53–54, 164n81

“Authoritarianism and the Family Today” (Horkheimer), 89, 90

“Authority and the Family” (Horkheimer), 90

Autistic-contiguous position, 152n64

Autonomy, 46, 107, 162n50, 189n142

 

Balbus, Isaac, 124, 136n4

Barrier-pathway system, 66

Bass, Alan, 46, 55, 159n30

Bataille, Georges, 37–38

Being-thus-and-not-otherwise, 98–101

Bemächtigung. See Mastery

Bemächtigungstrieb. See Mastery

Benjamin, Jessica, 55, 70–72, 105; end of internalization and, 86–90

Benjamin, Walter, 50

Bersani, Leo, 147n18

Bewältigung. See Mastery

Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Freud, S.), 3, 5, 9, 18–19, 23–24, 29–36, 60, 83

Biology, 10, 19, 59, 139–41n43, 151n55

Bion, Wilfred, 70, 76–77, 128

Bloch, Ernst, 136n4

Boothby, Richard, 61–62, 169n19

Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel, 64, 170n35, 170n42

Bowlby, John, 53–54, 164n74

Brown, Wendy, 160n38

Butler, Judith, 54, 86, 164n77, 177n25

 

Capital (Marx), 2, 109

Capitalism, 1–3, 16, 81–83, 85–86, 114–18; administration and, 132–33. See also Late capitalism

Caretaker, 42–47, 61–65, 156–57n5. See also Mother

Castration, 64–65, 76

Civilization and Its Discontents (Freud, S.), 113–14, 149n35, 151n60

Computer-mediated communication, 197n78

“Constructions in Analysis” (Freud, S.), 11–12

Containment (Bion), 76–77

Counterrevolution and Revolt (Marcuse), 117–18

Critical theory, 81–82; impetus for, 105–7, 132; privileged few justification and, 102; psychoanalysis and, 137n10, 189n139

Culture industry, 81–108; appeal of, 94–98, 180–81n63; effects of, 98–101; false needs and, 176n17; function of, 83–86; outmodedness of, 176n22, 199n15

Culture Industry, The (Adorno), 94

Cunning of reason, 83–84

 

Death drive (Todestrieb), 3, 9, 18, 23–38, 126; aggressivity and, 59–60, 65–67, 69; Benjamin and, 72; Beyond the Pleasure Principle and, 29–35; culture industry and, 94–98; Eros and, 37, 47–49, 154n86; history of, 24–28; Klein and, 27–28; Lacan and, 28, 59–60, 167n7; language and, 49–53, 121–23, 128; Loewald and, 41–43, 126; mimesis and, 91–94, 175n6; mother and, 157n11; precursors of, 146n5; repetition compulsion and, 146–47n6; sublimation of, 47–53, 100; urge to union and, 42–47, 55–56

Denis, Paul, 149–50n25

Dependence, 54, 70–72

Derrida, Jacques, 28, 135n1, 148n148, 154n87

Destructiveness, 26, 59, 77, 111

Desublimation, 103, 115–16, 193n35

Dialectic of Enlightenment (Horkheimer and Adorno), 83–86, 90, 97–98, 103

Ding, Das. See Thing

Dinnerstein, Dorothy, 43

“Dissolution of the Oedipus Complex, The” (Freud, S.), 11

Dolto, Françoise, 154–55n88

Domination. See Omnipotence

Dorey, Roger, 149n25

Dread. See Union

Drive (Trieb), 4–18; environment and, 139n42, 144n74, 145n80; instinct and, 139–41n43; Laplanche and, 162n48; post-1920, 7–12; pre-1920, 4–7; social constructivism and, 14–18; translation of, 139–41n43; unconscious and, 141n45

Drive to mastery (Bemächtigungstrieb). See Mastery

 

“Economic Problem of Masochism, The” (Freud, S.), 26, 35–37, 153n78

Écrits (Lacan), 168n13

Education, 107

Ego: deadening and, 51, 56–57; development, 42–53, 61–67, 126–28; id and, 42–47; mirror stage and, 61–67; rigidity, 45, 51, 67, 69, 93, 96–98, 106, 159n31, 160n58; superego and, 47–53, 61, 75–76; vocalization and, 51; weakness, 57–58, 93, 98–99, 183n86

Ego and the Id, The (Freud, S.), 153n78

Eigen, Michael, 55

Ellul, Jacques, 109

Engulfment. See Omnipotence

Environment: alienation from, 1–3, 46–47, 132–33; drive and, 139n42, 144n74, 145n80; mastery of, 135n4

Erfahrung. See Experience

Erikson, Erik, 195–96n59

Eros, 30, 37, 66, 129–30, 133; language of, 49–53; language of Thanatos and, 121–23; superego and, 47–49

Eros and Civilization (Marcuse), 82, 112

Escapism, 95, 181n69, 182n78

Esposito, Roberto, 38, 135n1

Ettinger, Bracha, 55

Experience (Erfahrung), 92, 179–80n54, 179n52

 

False needs, 96, 176n17, 182n76

Fantasy, 13, 44, 47, 84–85, 94–95, 127, 158n17

Feenberg, Andrew, 116–17, 193–94n39, 193n38, 194n42–43, 195n49

Fenichel, Otto, 27, 98

Ferenczi, Sándor, 9, 26, 139n29

Fetishism, 46, 85–86, 96, 118, 120

Fink, Bruce, 75

Fordist-Keynesian paradigm, 4, 85–86

Fort/Da game, 25–26, 147n16

Foucault, Michel, 15–18

Frankfurt School, 3–4, 81–82, 132–33

Freud, Anna, 27, 68, 171n53

Freud, Sigmund: afterwardsness and, 56, 161n43; aggressive sublimation and, 111–12; aggressivity and, 113–14; barrier-pathway system and, 66–67; death drive and, 3, 9, 18–19, 23–38; Girard and, 72–75; Loewald and, 41–43, 46–47, 51; Marx and, 3–4, 81–83, 129–30; mastery and, 3, 18–19, 23–38; Oedipus complex and, 48, 128; post-1920, 7–12; pre-1920, 4–7; sexuality and, 130–32; translation of drive and, 140n43; Wolfman and, 5–7, 12–14

“Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda” (Adorno), 94

Freyenhagen, Fabian, 185n115

Fromm, Erich, 3, 59, 136n7; death drive and, 191n11

“From the History of an Infantile Neurosis” (Freud, S.), 6–7, 13

Functionalization, 122

Future of an Illusion, The (Freud, S.), 130

 

Gardiner, Muriel, 143n60

Gay, Peter, 16–17, 144n79

Geist (Hegel), 49

German Ideology, The (Marx), 2

Gestalt theory, 19, 66–67

Gewalt. See Violence

Giedion, Sigfried, 109

Girard, René, 72–75, 173n76; Oedipus complex and, 173n79, 173n85

Godard, Jean-Luc, 129, 130

Gunster, Shane, 85, 96, 133

 

Habermas, Jürgen: communication and, 123, 187–88n129; mimesis and, 179n49; technology and, 193–94n39

Hacker, F. J., 112

Hacking, Ian, 143n65

Haeckel’s law, 19

Hartmann, Heinz, 27

Hegel, G. W. F., 49, 64, 83–84, 162n52

Heidegger, Martin, 124–25, 186–87n122

Hendrick, Ives, 147n7, 148n25

Holding environment (Winnicott), 76

Homosexuality, 6–7, 13–14

Honneth, Axel, 136n6, 178n35

Horkheimer, Max, 3–4, 19–20, 53, 81–108, 136n9, 185n113; crisis of internalization and, 86–90; culture industry and, 83–86, 94–101; Dialectic of Enlightenment and, 83–86; mimesis and, 91–94; negativity and, 186n120; superego and, 101–5

Horney, Karen, 43, 149n35, 171n51

Hullot-Kentor, Robert, 103–4

 

Id: ego and, 42–47; losing oneself and, 94–98; superego and, 98–101, 161n47

Identification, 44, 127; with aggressor, 68, 171n53; culture industry and, 94–98; Girard and, 73; imitation and, 160n39; internalization and, 87, 127, 160n39; with machines, 118–20; mimesis and, 73, 91–94

Ikonen, Pentti, 152n67

Imaginary. See Mirror stage

Immiseration thesis, 2

Instinct, 140n43

“Instincts and Their Vicissitudes” (Freud, S.), 8–9

Integration model, 58, 180n59

Internalization, 44–45, 47–48, 68, 127, 162n50; crisis of, 81–108, 177n26, 184–85n106, 188n132, 189n139; identification and, 87, 127, 160n39; vocalization and, 51

Interpersonal/intersubjective theory, 54–56, 70–72, 86–90, 131–32; critique of, 165–66n92

Interpretation: post-1920, 7–12; pre-1920, 4–7

Interpretation of Dreams, The (Freud, S.), 4–5

 

Jaeggi, Rahel, 17, 46–47, 145n81

James, William, 155

Jameson, Fredric, 137n10

Jarvis, Simon, 91, 176n17

Johnston, Adrian, 54, 152–53n68

Jones, Ernest, 26, 112

Judgment, 90, 98–101

Jung, Carl, 159n27

 

Kellner, Douglas, 198–99n14

Kierkegaard, Søren, 48–49, 74

Klein, Melanie, 27–28, 32–33, 43–44, 150n37, 150n38, 153n69, 171n56

Kolakowski, Leszek, 135n4

 

Lacan, Jacques, 19, 52, 58, 59–78, 113, 128; critics of, 170n35

Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste, 10

Language, 128–30, 187–88n129; aggressivity and, 121–23; of Eros, 49–53; Lacan and, 75–76; of Thanatos, 121–23

Laplanche, Jean, 24, 25–27, 36, 142n55, 150n39, 154n86, 166n94; Loewald and, 162n48

Late capitalism, 19–20, 81–86, 123–25, 132–33, 176n21; definition of, 176n21; possibilities for, 101–5; subjectification in, 98–101

Late Marxism (Jameson), 137n10

Lear, Jonathan, 45, 99–100, 142n52, 168n9

Libido, 34, 36–37, 118–19; aggressive sublimation and, 111–12; death drive and, 154n86. See also Eros

Life: intolerability of, 104; origins of, 29–35; technology and, 109–10

Living Straight Ahead, 98–101, 105–6

Loewald, Hans, 8–12, 19, 41–58, 68, 88, 92–94, 126–28, 155n1; death drive and, 126, 155–56n2, 156n3; fantasy and, 158n17; Freud, S., and, 41–43, 46–47, 51; Jung and, 159n27; Lacan and, 60, 66, 76; language of Eros and, 49–53; Laplanche and, 162n48; Lear and, 168n9; mastery and, 44, 52, 56–58, 158n24; mother and, 156–57n5; narcissism and, 157n9, 165n91; undifferentiation and, 54–56

Lorenz, Konrad, 59

Losing oneself, 94–98, 181n66; death drive and, 97, 182–83n83; escapism and, 181n69; examples of, 97; living straight ahead and, 105–6, 124

Love and Its Place in Nature (Lear), 142n52

 

Macdonald, Iain, 178n48

Machines, 118–20

Malabou, Catherine, 153n80, 155n91

Mandel, Ernest, 176n21

Marcuse, Herbert, 3–4, 20, 82, 109–25, 132, 147n7, 148–49n25, 152n65, 191n7, 193n34; aggressivity and, 192n24; analytic philsophy and, 196–97n70; crisis of internalization and, 86; Habermas and, 193–94n39; language of Thanatos and, 121–23; structural theory and, 195n55

“Marriage of Marx and Freud, The: Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis” (Whitebook), 137n10

Marx, Karl, 2–3, 81, 84, 102, 109, 129; Freud, S., and, 3–4, 81–83, 129–30; Marcuse and, 117–19; mastery and, 136n4

Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff, 138n16

Mastery, 1–3; aggressivity and, 33–34, 66–67, 69, 78, 158n24; anality and, 82; as Bemächtigung, 1, 3, 24–26; as Bewältigung, 1, 3, 24–26, 78, 148, 158n24; binding and, 162n53; defining, 56–58; drive to, 18–19, 23–24, 33–35, 37–38, 66–67, 69, 126–29; history of, 24–28, 149–50n25; Klein and, 152n64, 153n69; Lacan and, 61, 63, 66–69, 78; language and, 128; Loewald and, 44, 52, 56–58, 158n24; Marx and, 136n4; mimesis and, 92; pleasure principle and, 36–37; postoedipal, 57, 92; preemptive, 84; preoedipal, 57; technical, 109–18, 123–24, 192n25

Maturity, 104, 107

Metapsychology, 3, 4–14, 41, 131, 138n23, 145–46n1

Mimesis, 83, 104, 179–80n54, 179n49; Girard and, 72–75; postoedipal, 91–94, 100, 106, 187–88n129; preoedipal, 91–98, 100

Mirror stage (Lacan), 61–67, 168n13, 169n31; mastery and, 168n15, 170n48

Modernity: failed mutuality and, 46; infancy of, 124

Money, 82, 174n1

Mother: death drive and, 157n11; Loewald and, 156–57n5; omnipotent, 61–65; as Other, 62, 65, 68; as Thing, 65–66. See also Caretaker

Mourning, 51, 127, 158n21

Mumford, Lewis, 109

 

Nachträglichkeit. See Afterwardsness

Narcissism, 59–78, 103; castration and, 64–65; primary, 157n9, 165n91

Narcissistic libido, 34

Negative Dialectics (Adorno), 91

Negativity, 91, 100, 104–5, 178n34, 186n120, 187n123

Neuhouser, Frederick, 143n68

New Anthropological Type, 19, 81–108, 183n91

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 141n45

Nirvana principle, 36

Nom-du-Père (Lacan), 75

“Notizen zur neuen Anthropologie” (Adorno), 98–99

 

Obholzer, Karin, 13–14, 143n60

Objectivism, 14–15

Obsessional neurosis, 47

Odysseus, 83–86, 97–98

Oedipus complex, 11, 48, 87–88, 128, 197–98n1; Girard and, 73, 173n79, 173n85

Offe, Claus, 132

Omnipotence, 59–78, 103, 110, 113, 117, 128, 197n78; language and, 121–23

“Omnipotent Mother, The” (Benjamin), 71

One-Dimensional Man (Marcuse), 82, 114, 132

“On Motivation and Instinct Theory” (Loewald), 155–56n2

“On Narcissism” (Freud, S.), 25, 111

“On the Development of Mental Functioning” (Klein), 153n69

other, 45, 68–69, 71, 77, 117, 159n29. See also Tension-between position

Other, 62–63, 68

“other,” 45, 47–48, 68, 71, 100, 126–27, 159n29. See also Tension-within position

 

Pankejeff, Sergei. See Wolfman

Paranoid-schizoid position (Klein), 34, 43–44, 152n64

Patrocentrism, 86–90, 137n10, 188n132

Pessimism, 133, 199n16

Pfister, Oskar, 26

Phallus, 63–65, 75

Phillips, Adam, 44, 139n42

Pippin, Robert, 187n123

Pleasure principle, 29, 153n78; drive to mastery and, 36–37

Pontalis, Jean-Bertrand, 25–26

Primal ambivalence, 33, 35, 38, 49, 55, 57

Primal repression, 35–37, 49

Primal scene, 6–7, 12–14, 53, 138n16, 141n47, 142n52, 158n17

Primordial density, 42–47, 126–28; mimesis and, 92; narcissism and, 157n9; Oedipus complex and, 48; Thing and, 66, 68; vocalization and, 51–52

Privileged few justification, 102, 185n115

Project for a Scientific Psychology (Freud, S.), 19, 36, 66–67

Projection, 9, 32–33, 35, 68–70, 76, 92, 104, 119, 128, 153n69, 187n128

Psyche: mechanism model of, 8; organism model of, 9–10; post-1920, 7–12; pre-1920, 4–7; society and, 14–18; technology and, 109–10

Psychical reality, 11–12, 42–47, 141n45, 141n47

Psychic Life of Power, The (Butler), 86, 164n77

Psychoanalysis: Adorno and, 188–89n136; Frankfurt school and, 136n7, 137n10, 189n139; Freud wars and, 137n12; late capitalism and, 82, 183n84; sexuality and, 130–32

 

Real, 65–6. See also Thing

Reality. See Psychical reality

Reason, 93; instrumental, 117

Rechardt, Eero, 152n67

Reflection, 99, 107, 184n97; pretense-enforcing, 99–100; pretense-transcending, 99–100, 184n101

Reich, Wilhelm, 27, 69, 145n80, 172n58, 180n58

Reizschutz, 31–32, 34–35, 38, 51, 66, 69, 151n60; Khan and, 159n32

Religion, 73, 81, 106

Repression, 5, 35–37, 48–49, 56, 105, 141n45; primal, 35–37, 49

“Repression” (Freud, S.), 37

Resistant individuals, 101–2

Reverie (Bion), 76–77, 128

Ricoeur, Paul, 146n2

Rigidity. See Ego

Rogozinski, Jacob, 76, 169n31, 170n35

Rose, Gillian, 89, 104–5, 144n74

Rose, Nikolas, 15–18

Rosenberg, Benno, 31–32

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 82

 

Sadism, 34, 112

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 59

Scapegoating, 72–73

Schweppenhäuser, Gerhard, 91

Seduction thesis, 13, 142n55

Self-overcoming, 107, 132

Seminar II (Lacan), 66–67

Seminar IV (Lacan), 63–65

Seminar VII (Lacan), 65–66

Sexuality, 130–32, 198n5

Shapiro, Jeremy, 195n57

Sickness Unto Death (Kierkegaard), 74

Smart phone, 124

Social Construction of What, The? (Hacking), 143n65

Social constructivism, 14–18, 143n65

Solms, Mark, 140n43

Stern, Daniel, 54–56

Stiegler, Bernard, 94–95, 116–17, 120, 135n135

Strachey, Alix, 140n43

Strachey, James, 8, 139n26, 140n43, 151n60

Struggle for recognition, 70–72

Subjectivism, 14–15

Sublimation, 47–53, 100, 111–12, 121–23, 128–29, 161n44, 184n104; resistant individuals and, 102–3. See also Aggressive sublimation

Submissive individuals, 102

Superego, 47–49, 57, 130, 166n98, 188n135; Adorno and, 183–84n95; automatization of, 118–20; crisis of internalization and, 86–90; death drive sublimation and, 100; id and, 98–101, 161n47; ironic reflection and, 184n101; living straight ahead and, 98–101; substitute, 101–5

Symbolic, 52, 62, 65, 75–76, 163n65, 174n89

 

Technological rationality, 114–16

Technology, 20, 109–25, 132–33, 193n34–35; aggressivity and, 109–18, 121–25; as ideology, 193–94n39; technics and, 114–18

Television, 95

Temporality, 48–49, 100–101, 122, 142n53, 161n43, 161n47, 167n100

Tension-between position, 32–33, 38, 45, 55, 67, 152n64, 159n29. See also other

Tension model, 58, 180n59

Tension-within position, 17, 32–33, 38, 45, 55–56, 67, 71, 73, 76, 126, 152n64, 159n29; language of Eros and, 50. See also “other”

Terrors and Experts (Phillips), 139n42

Thanatos, 121–23, 129–30, 133

Theodicy, 15, 143n68

Theology, 143n67, 173n84

“Theory of the Parent-Infant Relationship” (Winnicott), 149

Theunissen, Michael, 178n34

Thing (Das Ding), 49–53, 65–67, 121–23

Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (Girard), 74

Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (Freud, S.), 25, 140n43

Tiefer, Leonore, 144n78

Todestrieb. See Death drive

Torok, Maria, 138n16

Totality, 195–96n59

Totem and Taboo (Freud, S.), 35

Trieb. See Drive

Türcke, Christoph, 122

 

Undifferentiation, 54–56, 92, 165n85

Unification, 122–23

Union: dread of, 43–45, 66, 160n33, 171n51; dual, 55; urge to, 47–49, 53–56, 126

Updating, 122, 196n64

 

Verwaltung. See Administration

Violence (Gewalt), 78, 107–8, 114

Violence and the Sacred (Girard), 72–74

Vocalization, 50–51, 163n58

 

Walled States, Waning Sovereignty (Brown), 160n38

War neurosis, 29

Weber, Samuel, 52, 145–46n1, 151n57, 152n62, 169n31, 170n48

White, Kristin, 25

Whitebook, Joel, 49, 110, 137n10, 158n24, 165–66n92, 179n49

Wholeness, 35, 43, 45, 48–49, 55, 71, 121, 165n87; totality versus, 195–96n59

Will to power (WillezurMacht), 26, 148n23

Winnicott, Donald, 76, 149n35, 159n31, 164n77; aggression and, 174n91

Wittels, Fritz, 26–27

Wolfman, 5–7, 12–14, 138n16, 142n57, 143n64

Word, 49–53, 121–23

World War I, 9

World War II, 59

 

Zaretsky, Eli, 166n96, 183n84