Psychopolitics of Speech – Uncivil Discourse and the Excess of Desire
by
James Martin
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Political Science
ISBN-10
3837639193
ISBN-13
9783837639193
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Imprint
Transcript Verlag
Country of Manufacture
AT
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 8th, 2021
Print length
200 Pages
Weight
666 grams
Dimensions
22.60 x 14.70 x 1.50 cms
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A new approach to rhetoric drawn from Lacanian psychoanalysis – the book argues that public speech works to organise unconscious desire.
The human capacity for speech is forever celebrated as evidence of its innate civility. Why, then, is public discourse often – and today more than ever, it would seem – so uncivil, even delusional? The reason, argues James Martin in this timely book, lies in the way speech works to organise desire. More than knowledge or rational interests, public speech services an unconscious urge for a lost enjoyment, stimulating an excess in subjectivity that moves us in body and mind. James Martin draws upon the work of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan as well as other Continental thinkers to set out a new approach to the analysis of rhetoric and answer the troubling question of whether civil discourse can ever hope to escape its obscene underside.
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