[lbo-talk] Capitalism & Psychoanalysis

Dennis Redmond dredmond at efn.org
Fri Jul 16 14:49:25 PDT 2004



> i haven't found any psych based
> literary criticism to have merit. same with psych based historical
> biographies.

Both Erikson's "Gandhi's Truth" and Sartre's "The Family Idiot" do a fine job of historicizing psychological concepts in fascinating and productive ways.

I've often thought of Freud as the first great theorist of the consumer culture.

-- DRR



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