The Subject in the Crowd: A Critical Discussion of Jodi Dean’s “Crowds and Party”
This article presents a critical discussion of Jodi Dean’s (2016) book “Crowds and Party”. I pay particular attention to her discussion of crowds that is influenced by psychoanalysis. Dean has put forward an important argument for the affectivity within crowds that may be transformed into a Communis...
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Paderborn University: Media Systems and Media Organisation Research Group
2016-10-01
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| description | This article presents a critical discussion of Jodi Dean’s (2016) book “Crowds and Party”. I pay particular attention to her discussion of crowds that is influenced by psychoanalysis. Dean has put forward an important argument for the affectivity within crowds that may be transformed into a Communist Party that is characterised by a similar affective infrastructure. I suggest that Dean’s discussion of affect is slightly vague at times and may be supplemented with Sigmund Freud’s work on affect. In contrast to Dean, who stresses the collectivity and deindividuation of the crowd, I argue that the crowd needs to be thought of as a place where individuality and collectivity come together and remain in tension. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-007c61a5950f4c40b8d5217eb53b3a612023-09-02T07:09:58ZengPaderborn University: Media Systems and Media Organisation Research GrouptripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique1726-670X1726-670X2016-10-01142428–437428–43710.31269/triplec.v14i2.759759The Subject in the Crowd: A Critical Discussion of Jodi Dean’s “Crowds and Party”Jacob Johanssen0University of WestminsterThis article presents a critical discussion of Jodi Dean’s (2016) book “Crowds and Party”. I pay particular attention to her discussion of crowds that is influenced by psychoanalysis. Dean has put forward an important argument for the affectivity within crowds that may be transformed into a Communist Party that is characterised by a similar affective infrastructure. I suggest that Dean’s discussion of affect is slightly vague at times and may be supplemented with Sigmund Freud’s work on affect. In contrast to Dean, who stresses the collectivity and deindividuation of the crowd, I argue that the crowd needs to be thought of as a place where individuality and collectivity come together and remain in tension.https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/759CrowdsAffectFreudPsychoanalysis. |
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| title | The Subject in the Crowd: A Critical Discussion of Jodi Dean’s “Crowds and Party” |
| title_full | The Subject in the Crowd: A Critical Discussion of Jodi Dean’s “Crowds and Party” |
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| title_short | The Subject in the Crowd: A Critical Discussion of Jodi Dean’s “Crowds and Party” |
| title_sort | subject in the crowd a critical discussion of jodi dean s crowds and party |
| topic | Crowds Affect Freud Psychoanalysis. |
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