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Experience a groundbreaking exploration of ecological crisis through the lens of psychoanalysis in The Environmental Unconscious. This brand-new book, published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2023, offers a fresh perspective on the intersections of environmental criticism and psychoanalytic theory. Dive deep into the resonant questions of why psychoanalysis has been marginalized in discussions of the ecological crisis, despite the influential frameworks of eco-Marxism, queer ecology, and eco-deconstruction available today. Steven Swarbrick provides a provocative inquiry into the unique and potentially traumatic aspects of eco-psychoanalysis, pushing readers to redefine their understanding of environmental loss.
Through a thorough examination of early modern poetry and key psychoanalytic theories, Swarbrick encourages literary critics and environmental scholars to re-evaluate concepts such as entanglement, animacy, and consciousness-raising. With close readings of seminal works by Edmund Spenser, Walter Ralegh, Andrew Marvell, and John Milton, this book unearths the complexities of a world that extends beyond simple interconnectivity, revealing a tapestry of porous relationships between nature and humanity.
The Environmental Unconscious is not just another ecocritical text; it challenges the prevailing narratives within the current regime of fossil capitalism, suggesting a vital need for a new theory of disconnection. This insightful and engaging work traces the influence of the environmental unconscious from the early modern era through Freudian and post-Freudian analyses of desire. Offering readers a unique and thought-provoking challenge, this book ultimately seeks to place nature in the analysis, fostering a deeper understanding of both environmental loss and the pleasure intertwined with it.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled. ISBN: 9781517913816.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781517913816
Year: 2023
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Description:
Bringing psychoanalysis to bear on the diagnosis of ecological crisis
Why has psychoanalysis long been kept at the margins of environmental criticism despite the many theories of eco-Marxism, queer ecology, and eco-deconstruction available today? What is unique, possibly even traumatic, about eco-psychoanalysis? The Environmental Unconscious addresses these questions as it provides an innovative and theoretical account of environmental loss focused on the counterintuitive forms of enjoyment that early modern poetry and psychoanalysis jointly theorize.
Steven Swarbrick urges literary critics and environmental scholars fluent in the new materialism to rethink notions of entanglement, animacy, and consciousness raising. He introduces concepts from psychoanalysis as keys to understanding the force of early modern ecopoetics. Through close readings of Edmund Spenser, Walter Ralegh, Andrew Marvell, and John Milton, he reveals a world of matter that is not merely hyperconnected, as in the new materialism, but porous and off-kilter. And yet the loss these poets reveal is central to the enjoyment their works offer—and that nature offers.
As insightful as it is engaging, The Environmental Unconscious offers a provocative challenge to ecocriticism that, under the current regime of fossil capitalism in which everything solid interconnects, a new theory of disconnection is desperately needed. Tracing the propulsive force of the environmental unconscious from the early modern period to Freudian and post-Freudian theories of desire, Swarbrick not only puts nature on the couch in this book but
Through a thorough examination of early modern poetry and key psychoanalytic theories, Swarbrick encourages literary critics and environmental scholars to re-evaluate concepts such as entanglement, animacy, and consciousness-raising. With close readings of seminal works by Edmund Spenser, Walter Ralegh, Andrew Marvell, and John Milton, this book unearths the complexities of a world that extends beyond simple interconnectivity, revealing a tapestry of porous relationships between nature and humanity.
The Environmental Unconscious is not just another ecocritical text; it challenges the prevailing narratives within the current regime of fossil capitalism, suggesting a vital need for a new theory of disconnection. This insightful and engaging work traces the influence of the environmental unconscious from the early modern era through Freudian and post-Freudian analyses of desire. Offering readers a unique and thought-provoking challenge, this book ultimately seeks to place nature in the analysis, fostering a deeper understanding of both environmental loss and the pleasure intertwined with it.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled. ISBN: 9781517913816.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781517913816
Year: 2023
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Description:
Bringing psychoanalysis to bear on the diagnosis of ecological crisis
Why has psychoanalysis long been kept at the margins of environmental criticism despite the many theories of eco-Marxism, queer ecology, and eco-deconstruction available today? What is unique, possibly even traumatic, about eco-psychoanalysis? The Environmental Unconscious addresses these questions as it provides an innovative and theoretical account of environmental loss focused on the counterintuitive forms of enjoyment that early modern poetry and psychoanalysis jointly theorize.
Steven Swarbrick urges literary critics and environmental scholars fluent in the new materialism to rethink notions of entanglement, animacy, and consciousness raising. He introduces concepts from psychoanalysis as keys to understanding the force of early modern ecopoetics. Through close readings of Edmund Spenser, Walter Ralegh, Andrew Marvell, and John Milton, he reveals a world of matter that is not merely hyperconnected, as in the new materialism, but porous and off-kilter. And yet the loss these poets reveal is central to the enjoyment their works offer—and that nature offers.
As insightful as it is engaging, The Environmental Unconscious offers a provocative challenge to ecocriticism that, under the current regime of fossil capitalism in which everything solid interconnects, a new theory of disconnection is desperately needed. Tracing the propulsive force of the environmental unconscious from the early modern period to Freudian and post-Freudian theories of desire, Swarbrick not only puts nature on the couch in this book but