Re: [PEN-L] psychology & Marxism [was: Gambling for Empire]

[Yahya Madra]

Dear Friends,

I am not so sure about the link between psychology and marxism but there is
growing literature on the intersection between psychoanalysis and marxism
from the side of the psychoanalysis.  With my co-author Ceren Ozselcuk, we
have recently embarked upon bridging the gap from the side of the political
economy.  Our first effort found its venue in Psychoanalysis, Culture &
Society that is frequently a venue for critical analyses of capitalism from
the perspective of psychoanalysis.  The article is downloadable for free
from the link below.  I also paste below the abstract.

http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pcs/journal/v10/n1/abs/2100028a.html

Warmest,

Yahya Madra

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*Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society* (2005) *10,* 79–97.
Psychoanalysis and Marxism: From Capitalist-All to Communist Non-All

Ceren Özselçuk and Yahya M Madra
Abstract: Current influential attempts to bring together psychoanalysis and
Marxism turn on the question of how to critique and move beyond capitalism
without reverting to a utopian notion of communism. Taking this question
seriously, the article explores the implications of psychoanalytic
categories such as the real, fantasy, *jouissance*, and the formulae of
sexuation, for Marxian economics and politics. Rethinking Marxism in
conjunction with Lacanian psychoanalysis, the article aims to formulate a
post-phantasmatic relation to the economy of surplus, and from there, to
offer a new ethico-political stance around exploitation and communism.
















On 3/12/07, Michael Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


On 3/12/07, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have long criticized Marxism for ignoring psychology (though such
> worthies as Wilhelm Reich and Herbert Marcuse should be mentioned).
> Jim Devine / "The truth is more important than the facts." -- Frank
Lloyd Wright
<<<<<>>>>>

lists are always incomplete, but surely juliet mitchell and, much more
recently, victor wolfenstein, deserve mention...   michael hoover

Re: [PEN-L] Question for Henwood

[Yahya Madra]

So, does this mean that "Accumulate, accumulate!" may not be the Moses and
the Prophets of the "capitalists"?

On 3/2/07, Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


On Mar 2, 2007, at 11:52 AM, Eugene Coyle wrote:

> One remark puzzled me.  I believe you said something like this:
> Corporations and big money are awash with cash, but they are not
> using it to buy real assets that will contribute to growth.  Rather
> they are using it to buy existing assets, their own shares, and
> pouring money out to stockholders.
>
> If you did say something like that, here's my question:  If they buy
> existing assets, the seller now has the cash.  Or the person getting
> the dividend has the cash. What does the seller do with the cash?
>
> How can you get rid of cash?

I did say that - I get it from the flow of funds accounts. They plow
the cash back into the markets, buying other stocks or buying whole
companies. Or they buy a fourth or fifth house, and outfit it with a
dozen HDTVs.

Doug

[PEN-L] Israeli Apartheid Week Feb. 10-17

[Yahya Madra]

Dear Friends,

The 3rd annual Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) will take place concurrently in
Toronto, Montreal, New York City, London, Oxford, etc. between February
10-17 2007. It will be a week-long series of events organized by a coalition
of different groups in the city and will feature lectures, film screenings,
and cultural activities.

For more details please go to http://www.endisraeliapartheid.net/.

Yahya Madra