1st Edition

Post-Capitalist Subjectivity in Literature and Anti-Psychiatry Reconceptualizing the Self Beyond Capitalism

By Hans A. Skott-Myhre Copyright 2021
194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

Through the examination of anti-psychiatric theory and literary texts, this timely and thought-provoking volume explores the possibilities of liberating our habitual patterns of perception and consciousness beyond the confines of a capitalist era. In Post-Capitalist Subjectivity in Literature and Anti-Psychiatry , Skott-Myhre asks the question, how might we be different if we didn’t live in a... Read more
1. Introduction Section I: The Institution 2. Embedded in the Institution 3. Kafka and Nomad Law 4. Basaglia and the Revolt of Living Force 5. Kafka and the Subject Who Cannot Belong Section II: The Family 6. Laing and the Carceral Mystique of the Family 7. Marquez and The Rupture of the Marvelous 8. Beyond Solitude 9. Conclusion

Biography

Hans A. Skott-Myhre is Professor of Social Work and Human Services, Kennesaw State University, US.