Global Libidinal Economy
Kapoor, Ilan / Fridell, Gavin / Sioh, Maureen This is the first book to examine global political economy from a psychoanalytic perspective. It claims that the libidinal-the site of unconscious desire-plays not a supplementary or trivial, but a constitutive role in global political economy. Consumption, for example, is not simply a way of satisfying a material or biological need but a doomed attempt at soothing our deeply held sense of loss, and capital is not just a means to material grow...