Beyond the Reality Principle: On the Political Role of Imagination in Herbert Marcuse’s Libidinal Economy
According to the psychoanalytic tradition, we function in the social world thanks to the reality principle. The article will deal with the role of the imagination as a political force, a force transforming the framework of social reality animated by the historical modification of this principle - th...
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| description | According to the psychoanalytic tradition, we function in the social world thanks to the reality principle. The article will deal with the role of the imagination as a political force, a force transforming the framework of social reality animated by the historical modification of this principle - the performance principle. Due to the fact that - as Marcuse has shown - reason has become an element of domination, the only emancipatory force capable of opposing the daily routine and repetition is imagination. Therefore, we propose to develop this idea of imagination as a means of liberation from the one-dimensional world and transformation of the social world in the context of the new libidinal economy outlined by G.H. Marcuse in two works: Eros and Civilization and One-Dimensional Man. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-14638a338de44815893bf33d979c37be2023-02-07T12:14:47ZdeuWydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu SzczecińskiegoAnaliza i Egzystencja1734-99232022-01-015910.18276/aie.2022.59-03Beyond the Reality Principle: On the Political Role of Imagination in Herbert Marcuse’s Libidinal EconomyBarbara Markowska-Marczak0Collegium CivitasAccording to the psychoanalytic tradition, we function in the social world thanks to the reality principle. The article will deal with the role of the imagination as a political force, a force transforming the framework of social reality animated by the historical modification of this principle - the performance principle. Due to the fact that - as Marcuse has shown - reason has become an element of domination, the only emancipatory force capable of opposing the daily routine and repetition is imagination. Therefore, we propose to develop this idea of imagination as a means of liberation from the one-dimensional world and transformation of the social world in the context of the new libidinal economy outlined by G.H. Marcuse in two works: Eros and Civilization and One-Dimensional Man.https://wnus.edu.pl/aie/pl/issue/1217/article/19707/performance principlereality principleimaginationlibidinal economyMarcuse |
| spellingShingle | Barbara Markowska-Marczak Beyond the Reality Principle: On the Political Role of Imagination in Herbert Marcuse’s Libidinal Economy Analiza i Egzystencja performance principle reality principle imagination libidinal economy Marcuse |
| title | Beyond the Reality Principle: On the Political Role of Imagination in Herbert Marcuse’s Libidinal Economy |
| title_full | Beyond the Reality Principle: On the Political Role of Imagination in Herbert Marcuse’s Libidinal Economy |
| title_fullStr | Beyond the Reality Principle: On the Political Role of Imagination in Herbert Marcuse’s Libidinal Economy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Beyond the Reality Principle: On the Political Role of Imagination in Herbert Marcuse’s Libidinal Economy |
| title_short | Beyond the Reality Principle: On the Political Role of Imagination in Herbert Marcuse’s Libidinal Economy |
| title_sort | beyond the reality principle on the political role of imagination in herbert marcuse s libidinal economy |
| topic | performance principle reality principle imagination libidinal economy Marcuse |
| url | https://wnus.edu.pl/aie/pl/issue/1217/article/19707/ |
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