The psychic life of consumer power: Judith Butler, Ernest Dichter, the American marketing reception of Freud, and the rituals of consuming religion

First, a close reading of Judith Butler’s The Psychic Life of Power underscores the ways in which Butler’s account of power liquidates issues of political economy and problematically ontologizes Freudianism as a kind of first philosophy of the subject. Second, drawing largely from secondary sources,...

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Main Author: Gonzalez, George (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2021
In: Critical research on religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 8-30
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Butler, Judith 1956-, The psychic life of power / Dichter, Ernest 1907-1991 / Freud, Sigmund 1856-1939 / USA / Reception / Religion / Consumer behavior
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AE Psychology of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
ZD Psychology
Further subjects:B Consumption
B Ernest Dichter
B Judith Butler
B Performativity
B Neoliberalism
B Ritualization
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