The Psychic Life Of Power

Author : Judith Butler
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804728126
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Psychic Life of Power written by Judith Butler and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judith Butler's new book considers the way in which psychic life is generated by the social operation of power, and how that social operation of power is concealed and fortified by the psyche that it produces. It combines social theory, philosophy, and psychoanalysis in novel ways, and offers a more sustained analysis of the theory of subject formation implicit in her previous books.

Author : Judith Butler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780804728119
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Psychic Life of Power written by Judith Butler and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power is not simply what we depend on for our existence but that which forms reflexivity as well. Drawing upon Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault, and Althusser, this challenging and lucid work offers a theory of subject formation that illuminates as ambivalent the psychic effects of social power.

Author : Judith Butler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781503616295
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Psychic Life of Power written by Judith Butler and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a form of power, subjection is paradoxical. To be dominated by a power external to oneself is a familiar and agonizing form power takes. To find, however, that what "one" is, one's very formation as a subject, is dependent upon that very power is quite another. If, following Foucault, we understand power as forming the subject as well, it provides the very condition of its existence and the trajectory of its desire. Power is not simply what we depend on for our existence but that which forms reflexivity as well. Drawing upon Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault, and Althusser, this challenging and lucid work offers a theory of subject formation that illuminates as ambivalent the psychic effects of social power. If we take Hegel and Nietzsche seriously, then the "inner life" of consciousness and, indeed, of conscience, not only is fabricated by power, but becomes one of the ways in which power is anchored in subjectivity. The author considers the way in which psychic life is generated by the social operation of power, and how that social operation of power is concealed and fortified by the psyche that it produces. Power is no longer understood to be "internalized" by an existing subject, but the subject is spawned as an ambivalent effect of power, one that is staged through the operation of conscience. To claim that power fabricates the psyche is also to claim that there is a fictional and fabricated quality to the psyche. The figure of a psyche that "turns against itself" is crucial to this study, and offers an alternative to describing power as "internalized." Although most readers of Foucault eschew psychoanalytic theory, and most thinkers of the psyche eschew Foucault, the author seeks to theorize this ambivalent relation between the social and the psychic as one of the most dynamic and difficult effects of power. This work combines social theory, philosophy, and psychoanalysis in novel ways, offering a more sustained analysis of the theory of subject formation implicit in such other works of the author as Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" and Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.

Author : Mari Ruti
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 163542125X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinventing the Soul written by Mari Ruti and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential reading for scholars and students in critical theory, psychoanalysis, and gender studies. How does the self care for itself in the posthumanist era? What psychic processes might allow the postmodern subject to find meaning and value in its life? Is it possible to delineate a theory of psychic potentiality that is compatible with poststructuralist models of fluid, decentered, and polyvalent subjectivity? Reinventing the Soul offers a new perspective on what it means to be a human being and to strive in the world despite the wounding effects of the socialization process. Drawing on the rich legacies of French poststructuralism and Lacanian psychoanalysis, Ruti builds an affirmative alternative to the post-Foucaultian tendency to envision subjectivity as a function of hegemonic systems of power. She proposes that the subject's encounter with the world also necessarily activates the psyche's innovative potential. By focusing on matters of creative agency, imaginative empowerment, inner metamorphosis, and self-actualization, Ruti outlines some of the mechanisms by which the psyche manages not only to survive its lack, alienation, or suffering, but also to transform its abjection into an existentially livable reality. Central to Ruti's argument is the idea that human beings relate to the world in active rather than merely passive ways—as dynamic creators of meaning rather than as powerless dupes of disciplinary power.

Author : James Garrison
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438482124
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconsidering the Life of Power written by James Garrison and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconsidering the Life of Power examines Chinese perspectives on bodily self-cultivation and explores how these can be resources for working past the ritual scripts of everyday life. In recent decades, European and American thinkers like Michel Foucault and Judith Butler have called attention to the way that people live out ritual scripts in order to be recognized by other people such that they might survive. Philosophers in China, however, have a long history of considering ritual not just in terms of confining power structures but also in terms of empowering artistic self-cultivation. Out of this convergence, a response to Butler's The Psychic Life of Power becomes possible, along with fascinating implications for improving real-world experience. James Garrison looks at art and aesthetics as a way of responding positively to the vicissitudes of everyday life. This means reframing ritual practice in domains like meditation, yoga, tai chi chuan, dance, calisthenics, fashion, and beyond as a kind of work that delves into and unearths society's long-accruing unconscious habits in a way that makes conscious one's everyday speech, comportment, countenance, and presence. The everyday body thus becomes an artwork, speaking in novel ways to the everyday self by revealing an alternative to the programmed ritual scripts through which most of us tend to survive. Reconsidering the Life of Power offers a compelling contemporary intercultural perspective on body, art, self, and society that bridges theory and practice by providing an actionable yet deeply philosophical approach to enhancing life.

Author : Michael R Hathaway
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1605505293
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Everything Psychic Book written by Michael R Hathaway and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Author : John Whitman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780352300843
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Psychic Power of Plants written by John Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Esther Harding
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691017907
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychic Energy written by Mary Esther Harding and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1973-09-21 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the primitive and unconscious aspects of man's nature and the processes by which their energies may contribute to the integration of personality. New edition, comprehensively revised and enlarged, with many new illustrations.

Author : Jeffrey A. Wands
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743488709
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Psychic in You written by Jeffrey A. Wands and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-02-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jeffrey Wands was six years old, he met his great grandmother Mary. She had been dead for twenty-three years. Gifted psychic Jeffrey Wands's connection with his great grandmother was the first step in a remarkable journey that has led to his current status as one of the most acclaimed and successful psychics in the country. Now, in The Psychic in You, he traces his development as a psychic and describes what it's like to grow up with such an extraordinary gift. Using a series of compelling and dramatic anecdotes, he illustrates the joys -- and the pain -- that this faculty has brought him. The Psychic in You is a book of incredible stories told in the most down-to-earth and readable way. And underpinning this exceptional narrative is Jeffrey Wands's belief that all of us have psychic capabilities, and that all of us can -- and should -- try to develop them. A fascinating read full of dramatic accounts of the paranormal, The Psychic in You includes information on: • Unleashing your own psychic ability • Contacting loved ones who have crossed over • Understanding the dead • Freeing yourself from pain and negativity • Handling fear of the dead Captivating, yet practical, this highly readable book dispels the myths and superstitions that surround psychic phenomena and provides a decidedly down-to-earth look at communicating with the other side. Enlightening and absorbing, The Psychic in You is essential reading for anyone seeking a richer, more insightful life.

Author : Dr. Joseph Murphy
Publisher : Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
ISBN 13 : 1722523743
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychic Perception written by Dr. Joseph Murphy and published by Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone possesses psychic powers and can be presently aware of events and experiences transcending the five senses. This book will teach you how to use your latent psychic powers to benefit your daily life. Dr. Murphy explains how to contact the Infinite Healing Presence within you. He supplies specific techniques for putting extrasensory powers into operation for your practical benefit, with amazing results. Make the most of your life as you put Murphy’s clear advice to work for you. Dr. Murphy changed the lives of people all over the world. He wrote, taught, counseled, and lectured to thousands who attended his sermons every Sunday. Millions tuned in his daily radio program and have read the over 30 books that he has written, which have sold over ten million copies worldwide.